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ericjones12398 writes "Google-maps-loving iPhone users get ready: starting with iOS 6, you won’t be able to open your iPhone fresh out of the box and start up Google Maps. After months of carefully purchasing mapping companies, Apple is ready to unveil its own mapping application. While it won’t change the way you drive, the new mystery app promises to be the next “wow!” gadget.
Apple’s been snapping up mapping application companies for the last several years. It started in 2009 when One Infinity Loop got Placebace, followed by Poly9 in 2010 and the purchase of C3 Technologies toward the end of 2011. Still, Apple hadn’t yet rolled out its mapping application, leaving industry insiders and fanboys alike in rap speculation about what the House of Jobs was preparing for the post-Jobs era.
Of course, the consumer electronics market expects big things from Apple. Aware of high expectations, Apple will settle for nothing more than the next buzz application when iOS 6 hits the streets. The new Apple app will get you where you’re going and provide business information, but it will also do something that is quickly becoming a must have in the more forward-thinking and innovation-oriented areas of the consumer tech market: 3D mapping."
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Apple’s been snapping up mapping application companies for the last several years. It started in 2009 when One Infinity Loop got Placebace, followed by Poly9 in 2010 and the purchase of C3 Technologies toward the end of 2011. Still, Apple hadn’t yet rolled out its mapping application, leaving industry insiders and fanboys alike in rap speculation about what the House of Jobs was preparing for the post-Jobs era.
Of course, the consumer electronics market expects big things from Apple. Aware of high expectations, Apple will settle for nothing more than the next buzz application when iOS 6 hits the streets. The new Apple app will get you where you’re going and provide business information, but it will also do something that is quickly becoming a must have in the more forward-thinking and innovation-oriented areas of the consumer tech market: 3D mapping."
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