Uh oh! Google releasing free turn by turn GPS app for Android

I don't think this will impact the iPhone much but TomTom and Garmin stock sure took a dump based on this and lower then expected earnings by TomTom.

http://www.droidforums.net

if apple rejects this, best believe i will be jumping ship when motorola releases the gsm version of droid.

If they reject this, the FCC is gonna be all, "sup guys?"

UPDATE: ABC's "Tech Bytes" DID say Google WILL be expanding this to other phone platforms in the future while talking about this, possibility including the iPhone. So that adds fuel to the fire that Google will port this to other phones (as I mentioned before, unsurprising since they usually try to support almost every mobile platform).

Though I DO hope that they port this outside of the Android platform. Knowing Google, they tend to want their products on as many platforms as possibility so I am sure they will try to port this to iPhone, as well as BlackBerry, WinMo, etc. Because this looks like the best cloud GPS software by far.

Arg.... Not ANOTHER "have to be connected to the cloud" GPS... You would think they would download the data to your phone for when your out of singal, which I commonly go to areas in my job where almost every carrier gets a bad signal. These "draw from the cloud" GPSs would leave me dead in the water there.

If it wasn't for that flaw, if they made it cache major areas your going to be around, this would defently be a winner. But we don't know if it does. If it works like TeleNav does, then there's going to be TONS of complaining people about not being able to get navigated to their destination due to lost signal...

I do so want this on the iPhone. Having already paid $299 for the hardware, the thought of paying nearly as much for software as a stand alone GPS unit is insulting. Go Google GPS!!!

If they can do in app purchases (or free, free's fine!) for maps stored to the phone I'd be really interested in this (or more so anyway). Just to have the basic map there wihtout all the extra sattellite layers and what not for rural travel away from cell towers would be so sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

so everyone that was complaining about ads showing up in the integrated google maps app now wants this and is happy its free.

u think its free AND ad-free? lol

yea i dont think so.

plus it doesn't have included maps, as others have stated above. lose your 3G, and its going to suck big time.

and if you know apple, you know that they do things on their own time. the market does not push them or spur them to do anything. i'm sure they already have iphone 4.0 or whatever and iphone os4.0 already planned. plus their ideas for iphone 5.0. they're just not ready yet. (the only time apple was pushed by the market w the iphone was in the implementation of an app store. thank the jailbreak community for that. otherwise we'd still be trying to play doom over AJAX lol)

This app will be good for me if the maps came preloaded..though.. somehow i think that wont be the case... otherwise the app will be incredibly massive...!
or maybe you can download cities..?? a 500MB download for a city ???
if it came with preloaded maps then FTW yea! ;)

so anyone know if it will have preloaded maps?