[gps-talkusers] Re: sendero GPS on iphone and android
- From: "Tanner, David (DEED)" <david.tanner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 07:24:03 -0500
And, of course, with Android you get the added pleasure of all the malware that
comes along with it for free.
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[mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Arrigo
Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2011 6:55 PM
To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gps-talkusers] sendero GPS on iphone and android
Hey everyone, was thinking a bit more about the possibility of the full Sendero
GPS product being developed on the iphone and Android. Actually, I would think
it would be easier on Android than the iphone for a couple of reasons. First,
Android allows self voicing apps to be developed much easier. On the iphone,
there is no way for applications to speak using the TTs engine that is built in
to the iphone, which is what voiceover uses. So, Sendero would need to either
include their own tts engine, which would increase cost, or rely on voiceover
to read everything, which would not allow the app to really be used in the
background. Also, there would be no easy way to copy maps to the iphone, unless
the entire country was included in the app the way Navigon and TomTom work. Or,
it could just download maps as it needs them the way the look around app does,
but the TTS would still be a major issue. On the other hand, Android would not
have any of these problems. It provides an API to create talking applications,
and it works in the background, the way Google navigation does. Also, copying
maps to Android devices is easy since you can just connect the phone in mass
storage mode and copy the maps to the SD card. And of course, with android,
there is no approval process to deal with, which is why the look around app
could be updated so fast. For these reasons, if Sendero does plan to expand to
other platforms, Android would be the logical first choice I think.To change
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