He noted that more than 100 million mobile device users had upgraded to the new iOS software, replacing a Google-powered maps app with Apple's own software which relies on licensed navigation data.
Foreign-born workers helped develop Google News and Google Maps, the search-engine company pointed out Tuesday.
The company also embarrassed itself and its corporate team when it chose to replace Google Maps with a low-quality Maps app.
The crew in Espoo has pitted Nokia Maps from the Lumia 920 against both Apple's equivalent as well as Google Maps -- and to no one's surprise, Nokia's own platform comes out on top.
When we first reviewed the phones, we admit, this is a feature we'd taken for granted, especially since they ship with stock Google Maps -- and you don't realize just how much you need reliable AGPS until it stops working.
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As recently as yesterday, Google was explaining its auto-redirect of Google Maps on Windows Phone devices to Google.com as a question of incompatibility rather than one of choice.
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As recently as yesterday, Google was explaining its auto-redirect of Google Maps on Windows Phone devices to Google search as a question of incompatibility rather than one of choice.
In other words, Apple had been stuck with a second-rate Google Maps app while Android had a far better one.
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In a letter posted to Apple's home page he had suggested that users create a web app for either Nokia or Google's maps - but a native app, such as Here Maps, should offer a superior experience.
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Street View cars, used to collect data for location-based products like Google Maps, mistakenly collected samples of payload data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks.
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Get comprehensive, accurate and easy-to-use maps with built-in Google local search, voice guided turn-by-turn navigation, public transit directions, Street View and more.
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Google has had mapping software since 2005, and a Google Maps app was pre-installed on the first iPhone starting in 2007.
His San Francisco company, Stamen, has developed technology that maps thousands of data points--an ultimate version of Google Maps.
No one could wait for Google to release its own Google Maps app to replace the Apple-built one Apple had cast aside.
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The app wouldn't appear to pose a direct threat to Google because it could potentially help phone makers and wireless carriers sell more Android devices, which include Google's revenue-generating search service, YouTube, Google Maps and other services, rather than those made by rival Apple.
Still, even in iOS 5, the app only offered a fraction of the functionality provided by Google Maps for Android -- lacking voice guidance and 3D views, for example.
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Looking to get the jump on Apple, Google announced new features to Google Maps on Wednesday, including more 3-D images and the ability to use the product even when you're offline.
In other words, Apple has dumped Google (GOOG)-owned YouTube just like it previously dumped Google Maps.
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Google Maps is following up last year's 8-bit maps overlay with an old-timey treasure map.
Once it has ferreted out an itinerary, you can follow the journey using turn-by-turn directions on Google Maps.
Now, we can live with a browser or Google Maps with no pinch-to-zoom, but not having a hardware keyboard hamstrings this device in other ways.
Speaking of the GPS: as of now drivers can navigate using either Google Maps or a full-fledged text-to-speech GPS app licensed from Navigon (not finalized, says Tesla).
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When you purchase an iPhone for example, the unit comes with a Google Maps feature, built-in utilities, a standard Web browser, a stock tracker, a weather app, etc.
Google's Street View project sent hundreds of vehicles to photograph city streets around the world so that people using Google Maps could see 360-degree images of the locations.
Most notably, an update to Apple's mobile operating system has replaced Google Maps with an Apple-designed map service that many users say is less accurate or even omits locations altogether.
The app uses top-notch technology from Google Maps and Street View as well as geocoding APIs to make it seem as though Carole is really there, at the door, clad in fur and surrounded by snowflakes.
It loads much more quickly than the old iOS Google Maps app because it uses vector graphics instead of bitmap graphics, and it has turn-by-turn navigation which the old iOS Google Maps app did not have.
And already, in its infancy, Google Glass gives you a way to take first-person HD video unobtrusively, use those Google Maps safely while driving and translate words into Chinese instantly.
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Last September when Apple ditched its Google Maps iPhone app and replaced it with its amazingly inept home-built Maps app, the move was so roundly denounced as a step backward and a weakening of the iPhone environment that chief executive Tim Cook had to release a public apology.
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Right now Google makes money from maps from search-type ads, of course, but also from existing corporate packages.
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