Is the battle converging on the mobile enterprise?
So over the past few weeks the competition war between computing's big hitters has ramped up in a number of interesting ways (particularly to those of us in the spatial / location arenas) amidst a slew of product launches and releases. What is clear is that again the competition are not afraid of stepping on each others toes in core areas. Apple's announcement last week that it's mobile devices would now feature their own mapping was not unexpected, and indeed Google somewhat pre-empted the move a few days earlier with it's 'next dimension' roadmap for it's now long-established mapping services. The news has already caused much debate and discussion, and this post does not attempt to dissect or analyse this particular information; although I would recommend that anyone interested reads some of the following blog posts: http://geothought.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/reaction-to-apple-maps-announcement.html http://www.vicchi.org/2012/06/11/a-bipolar-attitud