Jeff Huber, senior vice president of Commerce & Local at Google, announced on his Google+ account (https://plus.google.com/+JeffHuber/posts/CfXMJ76Nfwk) that the relaunched Google Maps for iOS has seen over 10 million downloads in the first 48 hours after its release.
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Google Maps is now available at the Apple App Store for free. It’s a 6.7MB download and requires iOS 5.1 or higher.
It’s compatible with the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (third generation), iPod touch (fourth generation), iPod touch (fifth generation) and the iPad. Here’s how the app is described:
Read MoreApple’s much-maligned iOS 6 Maps aren’t the only mapping technology being blasted by Australian authorities. They say that Google Maps also recommends potentially dangerous routes, reports “Yahoo! News” (http://macte.ch/jIuwV).
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Apple and Google have teamed up to offer more than US$500 to buy Kodak’s patents out of bankruptcy, reports “Bloomberg,” quoting unnamed “people familiar with the situation.”
The two companies have partnered after leading two separate groups this summer to buy some of Kodak’s 1,100 imaging patents, the article adds. Showing the weird workings of the global business world, on another front, Apple and Google are doing battle in the smartphone market.
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Here are the latest Apple rumors from the blogosphere:
Sources tell AllThingsD that Apple has indeed had talks with a few large cable operators about some new TV product. It makes sense that one of them might be doing its due diligence on capacity issues and whatnot. But the idea that a ‘potentially … imminent’ launch is in the works seems harder to take seriously.” — “AllThingsD” (allthingsd.com)
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