The GPS navigation providers have already been threatened by free turn-by-turn navigations from Google and Yahoo. Till date, Google’s free navigation was restricted to Android platform and the Yahoo’s free navigation to Symbian. But now, Google is making things worse for GPS providers like Tom-Tom and CoPilot by introducing the free navigation to the iPhone.
At a press conference, Google introduced its free navigation for Android phone in UK. Google Mobile Maps product manager, Steve Lee also confirmed at the press conference that the free navigation would also come to “other smartphone platforms” including the iPhone.
Google’s free navigation on iPhone may kill the GPS navigation paid app providers like Tom-Tom. While the news of free navigation on iPhone is buzzing in the tech world, PC World claims that Google has denied that it would bring the free navigation to iPhone.
“We did not say we would bring it to iPhone, we said to date we’ve had it on Android and that in the future it may come to other platforms but did not confirm this will be coming to iPhone at all,” a Google spokesperson said.
Will Google consider iPhone as one of the “other platforms” on which it introduces the free turn-by-turn navigation? We would surely come to know soon.
via [PCWorld]
