Samsung Takes A Jab At Apple Maps

Samsung’s marketing decided to take a jab at Apple Maps and their recent mishaps in the city of Mildura.

A number of people were stranded when their Apple Maps directed them to the middle of Murray Sunset National Park rather than the actual city of Mildura. Many of the tourists were stranded up to 24 hours and had to wander long distances just to find phone reception to call for help.

Samsung saw this as an opportunity to poke fun at Apple. They set up a display in Sydney, Australia with a “lost” four-wheeler and a campsite set up near/on it. Right next to the display was a sign that says,

“Oops, Should have got a Samsung Galaxy SIII. Get navigation you can trust.”

Who knows. For all of those stranded people in Mildura, the Apple Maps fiasco might be enough to convert them over to Android.

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nsutherl 5 pts

Obviously, Apple made a huge mistake by dumping Google Maps for their own crappy map app, and now they're back on Google maps.

 

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http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/time-to-upgrade-to-ios-6-the-google-maps-app-is-now-available-for-the-iphone/266201/

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RaduTanasescu 32 pts

Apple deserves it. There should be more ads like this. I'm an iPhone user, ever since IOS 6 I can't find anything anymore. They should have left the old Google Maps, even without navigation I had more use for the maps then I do now.

 

But I'm not going to get converted to Android for this. Sure, Apple pissed me off but I still like IOS, I keep hoping that Google will make a Google Maps app. They made one for every other phone, hell, I even have Google Maps on an ancient Blackberry 8310.

 

It's ok for all those other phones but no, not for the iPhone. That doesn't make me trust Google or Android more, I don't like being pressured to switch. If Google just made the damn app I might think that: "look, Apple screwed up but good old Google is reliable as always" but no, good old Google is laughing while I have no maps.

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thenew3 5 pts

 RaduTanasescu   And what made you think its google that didn't want to make an maps app for IOS6?  Maybe they did make one but Apple won't allow it?  Since apple controls everything in the app store, its a good possibility apple won't approve the google maps app for ios6.

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RaduTanasescu 32 pts

 thenew3 Because Apple really needs it. They wouldn't ban it. And if they did ban it Google could go public about it and win the hearts and minds of a lot of Apple users.

 

It would be a disaster for Apple to ban a Google Maps app right now. Plus, I can't find a link, but it was Google that announced that they won't be making an IOS maps app in the foreseeable future, right after they announced that they were working on it. 

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KevinMCom 5 pts

 RaduTanasescu  thenew3

 There is clear evidence that shows that the original Google/Apple licensing deal was supposed to last another year, and that Google had their sights set on doing an iOS maps app for 2013. However, apple pulled the rug out from underneath them, leaving iOS users without a Google Maps app for the time being. Also, the previous Maps app for iOS used Google data, but it was written by Apple. Google's terms say that while third parties may use their mapping data, they cannot use it to build a turn-by-turn solution. Apparently, Google even offered to write a turn-by-turn app for Apple years ago, but were denied. I believe that Apple declined to offer free turn-by-turn because they weren't getting enough of a cut from Google, instead leaving users to purchase $100 turn-by-turn apps from the app store (which means $30 per download to Apple). You don't think Google WANTS to make maps for iOS? They've made everything else. They don't care what platform people buy, they make money off of ALL platforms.

 

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http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/25/3407614/apple-over-a-year-left-on-google-maps-contract-google-maps-ios-app

http://mashable.com/2010/04/22/free-turn-by-turn-google-directions-iphone/

 

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thenew3 5 pts

 RaduTanasescu I have close friends that work for Apple (on IOS) and Google (on android) and believe me, its all Apple's decision not to have a google maps app for IOS6.

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RaduTanasescu 32 pts

 KevinMCom  thenew3 I'm all to aware of everything you just said. That doesn't change Googles current position.

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RaduTanasescu 32 pts

 thenew3 I'd like to hear more about what your friends say. Specifically.

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thenew3 5 pts

 RaduTanasescu  KevinMCom  What is google's current position?  They are held back by Apple.  If Apple would allow a google maps app for IOS6, I'm sure google would have one out in a very short period of time.  Google is not the problem here, Apple is.

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thenew3 5 pts

 RaduTanasescu I would love to share, but I've promised these two buddies I would not.  They are senior level software engineers, and I don't want to do anything that would threaten their jobs or our 15+ year friendship.

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jhernandez4688 13 pts

 RaduTanasescu  KevinMCom  thenew3  The point that they are trying to make is that Google wants to make the app for the Iphone, but Apple will not allow them to do it because they prefer to use their own app. They don't care that their app is not ready, they just do not want to have Google providing any service for them. Google would love to do it, they just can't do it until Apple lets them.

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agraceffa 5 pts

Irony is that its sponsored by Navigon.

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