Apple says turn-by-turn GPS coming to iPhone, copy / paste not a high priority

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There's been a lot of random misinformation about the iPhone 3G floating around out there, like David Pogue's baffling comment that the device's GPS antenna is "too small" to support turn-by-turn directions, and Apple's iPod and iPhone marketing head Greg Joswiak recently sat down with AppScout to clear up some of the confusion. Greg says that Apple has an internal priority list of features for the iPhone, and that the company went as far down the list with the 3G as it could -- and that copy / paste support simply didn't make the cut. Similarly, there are no technical issues preventing turn-by-turn directions, just other "complicated issues" (read: legal agreements) that need to be sorted out, and Josiwak expects developers to "amaze us." as things "evolve." Hopefully that means that nav app TomTom's got in the labs will evolve its way into the wild sometime soon. Finally, Joswiak said that he's not aware of any technical reasons an office suite isn't already in the App Store, but that the lack of a cross-application file structure could impede development. Yeah, and maybe the lack of copy / paste, you think?

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It seems like Apple always has a market strategy on which they target when developing a product. I remember when their thin laptop was introduced, I was in the market at the time for a laptop for my daughter, but the MacBook Air did not compare to the MacPro for our needs. MacBook Air was marketed for the person who is on the run and depends on wireless connection and mobility.

The iPhone seems to have that Apple mask to it, and that it points towards people who don't care about camera, video, GPS turn-by-turn audio, and maybe a few other things. The Internet apps seem great but they left out flash, and battery life seems short for a product that is basically a mobile device. I personally would wait to surf the net on my home computer not a screen under 6 inches like a cell phone unless I was on the go and had no other choice.

I don't know what Apple was thinking; maybe they did drop the ball with the iPhone 3G. They did sell a million, but maybe they experimented on the pockets of the their customers.

As a Apple computer fan, I’m glad I purchase the DARE.