Apple seriously took up the card

Judging by the fact that in Cupertino coming season shopping navigation startups, Apple's not forget about their map blunders and obviously eager to win.

According to Bloomberg, Apple has decided to purchase a navigation HopStop app that is not familiar to users from Russia, but it is popular in the US and Europe. This service helps travelers travel routes to build private and public transport, as well as carefully planned walks. Earlier HopStop app has been available on iOS platforms, Android and Windows Phone, but fans of the mobile OSes from Microsoft just a few days ago left without so many of the usual navigation solutions.

Shortly before news of the deal on AllThingsD we received information about the acquisition by Apple service Locationary, which aims to systematize The user provides information on sightseeing, various institutions and simply interesting places.

Recall that at the beginning of this month, the Office for registration of the US Patent and Trademark Office published patent application

Apple's navigation system based on user-entered data, which describes the system that allows us to monitor the situation on the roads, lay optimal routes, to warn the various obstacles, as well as recommend the appropriate path based on the compiled other rankings users.

In March of this year, Apple bought specializing in positioning technologies in the company's premises WiFiSLAM. As it had previously been obsessed with startups Poly9, C3 Technologies and Placebase. If you put together the development of all the above mentioned companies and Apple to add resources, you can safely say that in Cupertino are not just work on our mistakes, and seek a small map Revolution ...