Comments on: The iPhone Driving Apps of the Week http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2009-10/the-iphone-driving-apps-of-the-week/ All your digital media goodness. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:18:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: filmtransferpro http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2009-10/the-iphone-driving-apps-of-the-week/comment-page-1/#comment-93730 filmtransferpro Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:18:57 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/?p=12403#comment-93730 In a sea of garbage blogs it is nice to find one that has a lot of good information on it. I like the theme too. Keep up the good work. In a sea of garbage blogs it is nice to find one that has a lot of good information on it. I like the theme too. Keep up the good work.

]]> By: Glenn http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2009-10/the-iphone-driving-apps-of-the-week/comment-page-1/#comment-90447 Glenn Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:20:42 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/?p=12403#comment-90447 The obvious way for something like a Dash service to get widely deployed and have really good data is for there to be one standard, supported across many apps. Not Tom Tom's IQ Routes, but something like this Inrix application, or at least Inrix technology in every GPS app on every platform. Plus of course multitasking. If I have my iPhone plugged in, and you can tell by bluetooth that I'm in the car, this service should just start running in the background and providing data on my speed and location to Inrix. Anonymously of course. Yet we're unlikely to see this. So instead I get the fabulous "0 to 40 miles per hour" stuff from the semi-useless roadside monitors. Plus data that is so far behind reality that its often near useless. Kinda sad really. Its almost not even a technology problem. I tried Aha, and abandoned it very quickly. I'll try the Inrix application and see if its useful. If they'd provide a way to control playback while in the app, I'd likely use it more often... The obvious way for something like a Dash service to get widely deployed and have really good data is for there to be one standard, supported across many apps. Not Tom Tom’s IQ Routes, but something like this Inrix application, or at least Inrix technology in every GPS app on every platform. Plus of course multitasking. If I have my iPhone plugged in, and you can tell by bluetooth that I’m in the car, this service should just start running in the background and providing data on my speed and location to Inrix. Anonymously of course. Yet we’re unlikely to see this.

So instead I get the fabulous “0 to 40 miles per hour” stuff from the semi-useless roadside monitors. Plus data that is so far behind reality that its often near useless.

Kinda sad really. Its almost not even a technology problem.

I tried Aha, and abandoned it very quickly. I’ll try the Inrix application and see if its useful. If they’d provide a way to control playback while in the app, I’d likely use it more often…

]]> By: Jeremy http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2009-10/the-iphone-driving-apps-of-the-week/comment-page-1/#comment-90319 Jeremy Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:38:32 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/?p=12403#comment-90319 I guess this is a classic curse of being a product guy... Getting frustrated when features are added in a non-meaningful way. I suppose it could be a source of comfort to my engineers to hear that this pet peeve of mine extends beyond our product. :) Good to see some progress is being made. I suppose some kudos should go to AT&T for structuring their pricing in an up-front way vs. the trick of charging the same price as the initial cost for map updates. I guess this is a classic curse of being a product guy… Getting frustrated when features are added in a non-meaningful way. I suppose it could be a source of comfort to my engineers to hear that this pet peeve of mine extends beyond our product. :)

Good to see some progress is being made. I suppose some kudos should go to AT&T for structuring their pricing in an up-front way vs. the trick of charging the same price as the initial cost for map updates.

]]> By: Dave Zatz http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2009-10/the-iphone-driving-apps-of-the-week/comment-page-1/#comment-90317 Dave Zatz Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:01:44 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/?p=12403#comment-90317 Yeah, we do need more interesting and practical convergence. We're seeing bits and pieces here and there. But you're right that we're in sort of a boring commodity holding pattern sort of space. By the way, Telenav does offer restaurant ratings and Aha links Yelp reviews. Yeah, we do need more interesting and practical convergence. We’re seeing bits and pieces here and there. But you’re right that we’re in sort of a boring commodity holding pattern sort of space. By the way, Telenav does offer restaurant ratings and Aha links Yelp reviews.

]]> By: Jeremy http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2009-10/the-iphone-driving-apps-of-the-week/comment-page-1/#comment-90314 Jeremy Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:00:39 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/?p=12403#comment-90314 Does this seem like anyone else as a rather stagnant area of technology? With major points of difference being things like pronunciation of street names and such, it seems splitting hairs when talking about the primary purpose of these devices. Certainly accuracy is noteable, but this should be a foregone conclusion at this point. It seems like we're almost to a point where this merges into other apps... Driving to a restaurant, load the yelp gps app. Or starts merging that kind of data into the gps apps: lead me to a recommended open Italian restaurant in the 20-30 a plate price range. Does this seem like anyone else as a rather stagnant area of technology? With major points of difference being things like pronunciation of street names and such, it seems splitting hairs when talking about the primary purpose of these devices. Certainly accuracy is noteable, but this should be a foregone conclusion at this point. It seems like we’re almost to a point where this merges into other apps… Driving to a restaurant, load the yelp gps app. Or starts merging that kind of data into the gps apps: lead me to a recommended open Italian restaurant in the 20-30 a plate price range.

]]> By: Mary Beth-TeleNav http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2009-10/the-iphone-driving-apps-of-the-week/comment-page-1/#comment-90307 Mary Beth-TeleNav Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:39:29 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/?p=12403#comment-90307 Thomas - are you running into routing issues in this area? We can try to troubleshoot - please email me with specifics - marybethl@telenav.com. Thanks. Thomas – are you running into routing issues in this area? We can try to troubleshoot – please email me with specifics – marybethl@telenav.com. Thanks.

]]> By: Thomas http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2009-10/the-iphone-driving-apps-of-the-week/comment-page-1/#comment-90295 Thomas Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:12:30 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/?p=12403#comment-90295 Just don't expect Telenav to know what the Dulles Toll road when drive beyond the beltway towards I66. At least not on Sprint's version of telenav. Just don’t expect Telenav to know what the Dulles Toll road when drive beyond the beltway towards I66. At least not on Sprint’s version of telenav.

]]> By: Dave Zatz http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2009-10/the-iphone-driving-apps-of-the-week/comment-page-1/#comment-90283 Dave Zatz Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:05:17 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/?p=12403#comment-90283 I assume the rumored iPhone Dash app was killed when they were acquired by RIM and that a Blackberry-only experience is being developed. I assume the rumored iPhone Dash app was killed when they were acquired by RIM and that a Blackberry-only experience is being developed.

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