Comments on: G-Map Pulled from iPhone App Store

By: AlanJN

AlanJN — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:15:50 +0000

1.3 update is up, at least for existing owners. Nice warning tone, distance and time to go on nav screen, and little map in corner on upcoming turn. But unfortunately, eliminated the yards/miles to next turn. Still, overall very good update to a gray value for a $20 GPS.

By: SwissFreek

SwissFreek — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:03:55 +0000

@McKooter: That was already up there before it was pulled.

It was pulled before 3.0 was announced (but only a few days before). This is purely my own speculation, but I figure it slipped through the cracks and Apple later deemed it to be in violation of the TOS (since it started getting press out of the blue a few weeks ago even though it had been around for a while, even in its latest iteration). The iPhone 3.0 announcement would be pure coincidence.

They (xRoad) might also have pulled it themselves, but what's the likelihood of that? Especially since this wasn't their first release of the product and the original release was... "imperfect", but they didn't pull it in the past.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:58:39 +0000

Ha ha. I got it b4 it got pulled!!!

By: McKooter

McKooter — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:53:04 +0000

from the xroad FAQ: "On next updating (March 2009), we are going to provide alarm effect instead of voice prompt on the G-map."

im guessing this is in the approval process now as on the front page for gmap it also says: "Attention! G-map U.S. East and West are being reviewed for improvements and will be back in the App Store soon. Thank you for your understanding and patience."

By: Tunnelrunner

Tunnelrunner — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:42:40 +0000

Just to clarify, the e-mail from that G-Map rep came to my inbox yesterday, so I think it’s pretty accurate that an updated version should be in App. Store by hopefully next Friday (crossing fingers and toes).

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:37:22 +0000

I have been using G-Maps for awhile and it has been great. This may be the first time I have seen an app "pulled" off the AppStore for "improvements" as most of the time the improved version just gets posted when it arrives.

Obviously, it was pulled due to a problem maybe a licensing issue or something like that. Hopefully it returns better, if it does.

By: Terry

Terry — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:09:20 +0000

I am hoping with all this new OS 3.0 it opens up the door for Garmin and Telenav along with G-Map to do voice turn by turn.

By: sting7k

sting7k — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:11:52 +0000

The Xroad website says that they took it down for improvements, this was well before the 3.0 preview event though. It says they will be back in the app store soon, maybe they are just making some changes or now waiting for 3.0 to ship this summer.

By: Tunnelrunner

Tunnelrunner — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:02:18 +0000

One of their reps said G-Map will be back in the App store with upgrades within a week. Hope that’s true…

By: Dyvim

Dyvim — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:44:01 +0000

I was planning on buying this as well for an upcoming trip next week. Oh well.