Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iTS, iTunes, Podcasts, Apple
"Podmaps" concept patent sought by Apple
Like many Apple patents, there's no indication (or even suggestion) that anything like this would ever see the light of day, but it does tell us that Apple is looking at doing more with marrying their hardware with maps software, just like the great improvements we saw in the iPhone's 1.1.3 update. Hardly a surprise, too, that a company so strongly turning towards portable computing is thinking about the needs of portable users. But a cool idea nevertheless, and it also confirms that Apple sees the iTS's podcast model as a strong and easy way of quickly distributing content of all kinds.
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KeynoteKen said 9:59AM on 2-15-2008
This is one of the ideas I threw into the "Dream App" contest. With Alex's voice being able to be spoken directly to a file, I could see how this could work quite easily. So, for those iPods that don't and may never see WiFi (nano), you can still get some really cool driving instructions. It's not like I haven't been loading the text of the directions on my iPod already :D
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Leon Barrett said 10:13AM on 2-15-2008
Old new:
http://www.macrumors.com/2008/02/14/podmaps-to-provide-mobile-maps-and-directions/
just saying like!
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Leon Barrett said 10:14AM on 2-15-2008
Whoops, that was meant to say Old News - don't I look the fool - Oh well!!
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Max said 1:16PM on 2-15-2008
To be honest, you looked a fool even without the typo. People who post old news posts are fools, especially when the 'old' news they complain about is actually only a day old.
artifex said 10:46PM on 2-15-2008
"People who post old news posts are fools, especially when the 'old' news they complain about is actually only a day old."
If that wasn't enough, he appears to have posted as an excuse to linkwhore his own blog. :)
Dalton said 4:14PM on 2-15-2008
Garmin announced something like this sometime mid-2007 with Intellitours. In case you can't wait for it to make it to the iPhone, you could always download one of those for your GPS.
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Dalton said 4:15PM on 2-15-2008
Shoot - it ate my link.
http://www.intellitours.com/news/2007/07/27/intellitours-unveils-gps-audio-driving-tours-for-garmi-nuvi/