Tech | October 29, 2009 | 3 comments

Is Google Maps Navigation "going to be huge"?

source: http://Mashable.com

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Tech blog Mashable.com and the share index seem to think so.

So what is Google Maps Navigation? It's a new, free product from Google that combines the massively popular with real time GPS turn-by-turn navigation and nifty extras like voice search, live traffic data and satellite, as well as street level, view.

Since it was announced yesterday that it would be free, shares in GPS navigation companies like TomTom fell by up to 20% and it's been trending on Twitter.

As Mashable points out, once it's released and spreads onto other platforms other than Android 2.0 devices, everyone will get it since it won't cost them anything to do so. Making Google sound a tiny bit like a omnipotent superpower (which is kind of fair enough, to be honest), they say "people who never cared about it [GPS] will try it out to see how it’s like. In a matter of months, Google will control a huge, previously untapped portion of the market," before adding "From their competitors’ perspective, it’s a nightmare."

http://mashable.com/2009/10/29/google-maps-navigation-huge/
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3 comments // Is Google Maps Navigation "going to be huge"?

  • beatnik_kid
  • maizein
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      maizein  

    • "Is Google Maps Navigation "going to be huge"?" - Probably not. It's only available on Android phones running version 2.0. That means even G1 owners can't have it yet... and maybe they will never be able to.

    • 2 years ago
  • current_nando
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      current_nando  

    • Oh that's awesome! But I never used GPS, cause I always know where I'm going by using google maps before leaving the house... IF I don't know where I'm going cause pretty much always I know where I'm going.

      And you would need internet to make it work in a laptop, so that would be paying those $60 month data plans + your voice plan, so that's a lot of money... so I guess is still cheaper to get only a GPS... unless you are already paying for a data plan and have no GPS... whatever.

    • 2 years ago
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