OT: using tablet as a Sat nav

He he and once I leave the M6 I often don't see another moving vehicle before I get home 20+ miles later. And no it's not 0400 on a Sunday morning, 2200 ish Saturday.

And people ask me why I "waste money" on Apple products when their <insert unknown Chinese brand here> tablet / phone is "better and cheaper"...

But in this context didn't Apple drop its own SatNav and had to adopt TomTom mapping when their own App fell well short of expectations?

Don't confuse mapping data with the app using it!

Lots of companies use mapping data from 'competitors'. The Apple app. was useless in the early days, but they did start with a several year deficit vs the competition.

It's actually developed into a very good app now. Although I do like what Google have done with augmented reality - that really helps when using a navigation app to walk around an unknown city.

It does display the current speed limit in the UK.

That would be fine if you or I, as a user, could choose mapping from a, b or c. With Apple Maps, you can't.

I currently cannot see my home on Apple maps - the road stops short. Aerial/satellite view shows the house, and the road, and looks to be about three years old. But the map is significantly older. (Mind, my IOS phone manages to more-or-less correctly locate my parked car. Just no road to get to/from that location.)

What does Chinese hardware have to do with a software issue?

Hint: nothing.

And from my distant recollection of that road it's probably right!!!

And of course iPhones are made in China...

Just wondering, did Cassini use a SaturnNav?

But iOS isnt and its that that stops that stupidity.

Not really. There's a small advert strip along the bottom of the screen which I just ignore. A bit more of a nuisance is that when you exit the app you get presented with a full screen advert for something where the icon for closing it is much less easy to find than the link for buying the thing.

I know what you mean. I had a file manager app that used to be quite good but then it got upgraded and kept constantly bombarding me with full screen adds with sounds. I pretty quickly got rid of it.

I fail to see what the manufacturer of the hardware has to do with whether apps are allowed to have a "paid for by ad" model

and, if your claim is that AppleStore doesn't allow this

How are such apps funded?

tim

FTAOD, my example was not a mapping app

it was an app to perform a function that does not appear to be available as standard on either Apple or Android devices

tim

how does iOS stops apps with embedded ads?

tim

I'd suggest you Google who wrote Android...

It doesn?t. But it does stop the app popping up ads outside the app itself. And from installing anything that keeps popping up ads even when the app has been deleted.

Irrelevant to who wrote iOS,

We use a ten inch tablet that has a phone function. We then use a free android App called Scout GPS. Scout then keeps a downloaded a road map on to the tablet and it marks our position on the map as we drive along. Works very well for us.

Out of interest though, when using this tablet (make name is called a Fondi ) When using this App the tablet slowly drains its battery even though it is plugged into the car 5V socket for charging). Is this normal for a tablet App to consume more than the 5v car socket inlet can deliver?