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Thursday, August 21. 2008

Want Turn by Turn Directions on iPhone?

C|net asks. Thus far: "yes." Mostly, I think they are looking for conspiracy stories about why we don't yet have that feature. The license forbids it, though no one knows quite why.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Satellite Navigation, Apple at 07:33 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Adena,

Apple is a VERY conservative company when it comes to public disclosure and for a very good reason: rarely does a week (or maybe a day?) go by when Apple does not get another individual or class action suit about implied promises in advertising. Battery life, battery replaceability, etc etc. A woman in Florida filed a suit yesterday because of unfounded claims of 3G over Edge download speed improvement.

I would be quite sure that apple forbidding Turn-by-Turn directions in their licensing is to mitigate risk of law suits from the inevitable "my iphone told me to turn left... into the ravine" lawsuits. This way, it tries to shift the responsibility to the application provider that has "gone against" apple's license agreement to provide this capability.

I'm sure we'll see plenty of these applications soon, and Apple will probably send the requisite letter that slaps them on the wrist and recommends they withdraw the product... with no teeth bared.

Jim
#1 Jim Pollock (Link) on 2008-08-21 15:19 (Reply)
My biggest problem with the google map implementation is that you need network connectivity. I really wish Apple would allow a product on the iPhone so that when I travel to the US I can still use maps and get directions without costing me an arm or leg.

This restriction is crazy.
#2 James Bourette on 2008-09-05 11:44 (Reply)

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