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Google's Latest Disruptor: Free Turn-by-Turn GPS Maps
Posted Oct 28, 2009 03:13pm EDT by Dan Frommer in Investing, Internet, Products and Trends, Mobile
From The Business Insider, Oct. 28, 2009:
Google is about to make life trickier for GPS mapping companies, and could make its Android platform more attractive: It's releasing a new, free turn-by-turn GPS mapping service, which will launch next week on Motorola's Droid phone.
It will follow on more Android 2.0 phones, and could eventually follow on Apple's iPhone. According to Gizmodo, "Google implied they are working closely with Apple now on it."
This is potentially bad news for GPS companies such as TomTom and Navigon and telcos like AT&T, which charge up to around $100 per year for this sort of service.
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76 Comments
Yahoo! Finance User - Wednesday October 28, 2009 03:17PM EDT
Glad somebody is giving us a break..... but I prefer to be lost..
Marty - Wednesday October 28, 2009 03:24PM EDT
Oh great! Now the idiots will not only be chatting on cellphones while driving but holding them up to gaze at the pretty displays of where they think they're going. Outlaw cellphone use by drivers, period!
Yahoo! Finance User - Wednesday October 28, 2009 03:27PM EDT
Maps will be horrible. You get what you pay for. Should be called Googlost.
ezshooter - Wednesday October 28, 2009 03:29PM EDT
Fantastic news for consumers. bad for the GPS companies. Now it is so easy to find new locations, even cling2fear won't feel as lost in the world.
JoeB - Wednesday October 28, 2009 03:30PM EDT
Tom tom needs a bail-out. It's just not fair.
michael p - Wednesday October 28, 2009 03:34PM EDT
fortunitly most people can multitask. lets ban bookreading while drinking coffeee. why? the dumb ones might just get burned
Terry - Wednesday October 28, 2009 03:40PM EDT
Now if we can just get Google to fix our government... Maybe get rid of Congress and get a government that actually works for the citizen... Maybe even a FREE GOOGLE GOVERNMENT for the people?
Rick Cain - Wednesday October 28, 2009 03:40PM EDT
Google continues its service to the public, demonstrating how we are paying other companies excessive amounts of money for information that apparently is so cheap to obtain that it can be made free...
Yahoo! Finance User - Wednesday October 28, 2009 03:42PM EDT
You mean that I won't have to pay ATT for my gps app. if I can get it free on google?
Rick Cain - Wednesday October 28, 2009 03:43PM EDT
Google continues its service to the public, demonstrating how we are paying other companies excessive amounts of money for information that apparently is so cheap to obtain that it can be made free...
sailingsoon - Wednesday October 28, 2009 03:45PM EDT
Free mapping is not worth much without a good user friendly interface. Garmin does it best. It will be interesting to see how good the interface is for the Google/Driod application.
Cyril - Wednesday October 28, 2009 03:48PM EDT
Unless google can broadcast on a device like the reg GPS there is no contest. I've used both
Joe - Wednesday October 28, 2009 03:58PM EDT
I own a TomTom... it is so out of date, because I refuse to pay $80, for a map update. I will never own a GPS only device again. Can't wait to get my google phone.
penurius - Wednesday October 28, 2009 04:06PM EDT
Now if only GOOG would cook my meals and walk my dog...
Chris - Wednesday October 28, 2009 04:07PM EDT
cling2fear? please take you political diatribe elsewhere. This has nothing to do with the article, and is not appreciated here.
Chris - Wednesday October 28, 2009 04:09PM EDT
cling2fear? please take you political diatribe elsewhere. This has nothing to do with the article, and is not appreciated here.
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Yahoo! Finance User - Wednesday October 28, 2009 03:17PM EDT
Next disrupter will be the free ad exchange platform powered by the webservers themselves. Nobody will need Google then. http://www.gurusoft.net