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missing app: GPS navigation

Aug 19, 2008 gps navigation

MSNBC has a nice article about the most obvious application missing from the App store for iPhone: GPS navigation with turn-by-turn directions. It does not provide any reasons why, but rather talks speculatively and quotes a few people in the industry. Worth a look if you’re interested in this missing application for iPhone.

Dhanani said TeleNav has proceeded ahead with its GPS program, TeleNav Navigator, for the iPhone, and found that it works quite well on the device “which is more than capable of providing an application like this,” he said. “The GPS worked really well.”

But the if and when is a different matter. It’s “hard to say, because Apple does have to update their agreement for navigation to happen,” he said. “We figured it’s a big category, navigation, and Apple will change their stance, because there’s going to be a lot of consumer demand for it.”