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Close to a year and a half after Apple’s acquisition of PlaceBase (a mapping software developer), the company may finally be looking at building an in-house navigational software application, something that many have been anticipating for quite some time now. The Apple job board has a number of new openings for iOS engineers who have experience working on navigational software. In this posting, Apple explains that the new position requires engineers with “valuable knowledge” in “Computational Geometry or Graph Theory”and “Experience developing navigation software.” Apple is noted to be hiring four engineers for this position in their iOS development team.
The job postings could be an indication of plans to bring personal navigation software to the iOS platform. Currently the company relies on its partnership with Google to provide mapping applications to iPhone users. The growing rivalry between Google and Apple in the mobile space could make this partnership unviable in the long term. Apple’s acquisition of PlaceBase in July 2009 and a subsequent purchase of Poly9, a Canadian based map development firm have given sufficient proof of Apple’s long term plans. Interestingly enough, the latest job openings also require engineers with experience in “Linux server-side development of distributed systems“. Another recent job posting is looking for candidates who will be working on “distributed image processing on a server cluster“. Although it is all speculation, the different job postings could help connect the dots with respect to how Apple plans to incorporate this iOS-based navigational software system.
It will be interesting to see how the rumored application will compare to Android free turn-by-turn GPS system. It is also a fact that the iPhone is one of the most attractive platforms for third party navigation apps like TomTom and Navigon. Apple’s latest move will most likely be quite disruptive in the mobile navigational software space. What are your opinions? Share your thoughts and comments in the section below!
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[Source: Apple Insider]
Authors: _GadgetNews
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