Is Apple developing a Google Street View rival?
For years, Google has been driving around the world providing Street View images for people to explore when using Google Maps. Shown is one of their cars in Brooklyn Google launched its Street View technology in 2007, and has considerably refined the technology since then The would lend itself to the self-driving car theory. ‘This brings us back to a much more likely conclusion: Apple is preparing to take on Google’s Street View with a similar offering in its own Maps software.’ They said it might features as part of the iOS 9 upgrate due later this year, although it would likely begin only with select cities such as New York and San Francisco. This would plug a noticeable hole in Apple Maps, which has been sorely missing Street View ever since Apple made it the default maps app for iPhones. Apple ditched Google Maps as the default navigation app on iOS devices in 2012 in favour of their own Apple Maps, but it has lacked the Street View functionality since then
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