I just happened to see it was out when it became available and I downloaded a minute ago. Holy crap is it creepy. My phone should not be able to do that. I only messed with it for a minute (I need to stop procrastinating now), but the controls are nice. The camera angle changes as you move your phone. BTW, it's free. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=293622097&mt=8
Ah cool, thanks for pointing it out. It will be interesting to compare it with Earthscape. Earthscape improved after they added search abilities, and has that cool feature of taking photos that are added quickly to map. For practical use, don't think it could ever replace google maps, but fun to check now and then to see if anyone took photos near you. Unless this Google Earth apps runs fast and practical, or unique features over google maps, it might not say on my phone long.
Woah. This is as awesome as it is on the PC. I'd guess that the Locate Me function in it, will absolutely maim the battery even more than Maps. With the angle tilted, you really do feel like Superman, LOL. Now, if only Google could strike a deal with the makers of X-Plane...
Sigh, still not available in HK yet.... Jellycar didn't take this long to propagate from US to HK app store last time.... :'(
I don't think it's that hot. Seems like a 1.0 release to me. I found the mapping and scrolling fairly slow with lots of stutters. I would have expected more from Google. Already removed from my phone, I'll try again with the first update.
I'm surprised Google did this considering they've got the android now... I figured we would have seen the last from google
I looked it up real quick last night after it came out. Apparently it isn't even available for the Android yet. I don't know how well the Android is going to sell. It could be ten times more powerful than the iPhone, but you have to convince people it's worth it. I don't know if they can get people that excited about it. Maybe I'm wrong. doesn't really matter either way.
Google has tons of money, so they can distribute apps for free. And at some point, they may include ads in their apps and make even more money!! They aren't stupid. Also, they are getting advertising at a low cost becuase you know that you are using a Google app and you will tend to use Google's apps on your desktop (many of which have ads in them), and the more clicks they get on those apps, the more that they make from companies that advertise in their apps. It's all about marketing. The fact that it's done in a subtle manner doesn't detract from the fact that it's done in order to obtain more profit!! That's why Android is distributed for FREE. I'm sure that it cost a lot more to develop than a native Google Earth app for the iPhone!!
question someone asked how to view landscape mode and I just figured it out. put your two fingers on the screen and move up and down to view landscape although you cannot see buildings, you can see the terrain. P.S: Check out greenland weird as hell. Look at the middle, you can see clearly a black line. And a little bit north of that line there is something that looks like a shipwreck but is way too big to be one. its kinda an orange color really looks like a ship wreck. CHECK IT OUT TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK I REALLY WANNA KNOW!!!!! LoL UPDATE on the shipwreck: it is clearly orange with a yellow stripe on top its also got some rust !!!!
Another app that falls into the "cool but useless" category. The built-in map can do much more than this...
IMO, Google isn't competing with Apple(Google's CEO, Dr. Eric Schmidt, announced that he joined the Apple board at MacWorld 2007). They're collaborators. Google's main targets, I think, are Windows Mobile and Symbian. They want to have Android on all the future devices that would currently choose WM/Symbian as their OS of choice. Apple will continue to have their one Phone per year.
