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WIRELESS « Daily Marauder — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:42:42 +0000

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By: jim Kenton

jim Kenton — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:34:26 +0000

There’s a fundamental difference between these two apps. HopStop first selects a city then focuses on giving you directions within that city. Google starts out with “where do you want to go in the world?”

Try getting transit directions from here to 10th & 45th on Google and it’s just as likely to send you to Kenosha WI unless you specify 10th & 45th, NY. Maddening.

HopStop is far easier to use for transit directions. Google works great for longer distances (city to city). Being native doesn’t make the process faster for Google. Using the HopStop app is much faster.

By: Fun things to do in New York City

Fun things to do in New York City — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:26:29 +0000

I know the subway real well. And anyway, I would not be caught asking directions – so I never use HopStop in the city (NY that is).

BUT, I do use it when I travel. Given that they add on average one city a year – I am betting on Google.

The only explanation I can find for their millions of page views is that people just don’t know that Google does this. Kind of like 30 M people using Mapquest while Google was evolutionary steps ahead.

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 06:20:46 +0000

They should add a feature that let’s users with gps declare the Id of the transit line they are currently riding on. Then I could get real time info on where the hell my bus is at. Dude, I’m totally late.

http://tinyurl.com/ahzvtb

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:02:51 +0000

Check this out

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By: jimmy

jimmy — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:35:53 +0000

By: conspiracy minded

conspiracy minded — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:29:34 +0000

google doesn’t need to do a good job here. unfortunately, what they do is good enough–draw more page views. pretty damn hard to compete with native-running free apps!

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GeekOSN » Blog Archive » iPhone App Bandwagon is Driven by Google Maps — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:18:00 +0000

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By: Robert Accettura

Robert Accettura — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:42:08 +0000

I’m still waiting for MetrO to be ported to the iPhone. It’s the gold standard on Palm, and it’s supposedly in the works now.

Google hasn’t done a good job in this space. If the MetrO port is 50% of what it is on Palm, it will be perfect.

By: PJ

PJ — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:58:31 +0000

I always noticed Hopstop to over estimate time.. which is not a bad thing, but great service!

By: Graham

Graham — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:57:12 +0000

I could run 3.1 miles in under 30 minutes. “Rapid” transit?