Comments on: Want to Use New York City's Coolest App? Get a Google Phone.

By: jerome71

jerome71 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:22:21 +0000

For any city except New York (yes version 3.5.2 is supposed to have a "server problem" in NYC!) Around Me does the same, and for restaurants, bars, hotels etc.

SInce there is no "subway" category, you just have to search for subway, and turn your iPhone horizontal.

And it's free too.

Her it is :
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aroundme/id29005...

By: johnmeister

johnmeister — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:55:37 +0000

So why write such a misleading title? If the function that makes this so cool exists on other phones, then why are you pushing a google phone?

By: PKafka

PKafka — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:02:45 +0000

Sam, when you're reading my "articles", you need to look carefully, because sometimes I leave hidden messages in them that are only visible to those who know my secret code.

For instance -- when I write the following: "I’ve seen a couple variants of these, at least in demo form, and they’re some of the coolest things I’ve seen that aren’t in “Minority Report” or some other movie."

That *really* means that "I’ve seen a couple variants of these, at least in demo form, and they’re some of the coolest things I’ve seen that aren’t in “Minority Report” or some other movie."

Got it? Shhh! Don't tell anyone.

By: samharrison

samharrison — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:56:43 +0000

looks like you don't know the iPhone app market very well Peter. I thought “journalists” were supposed to do research before writing “articles”… there are several AR apps on iPhone that do this and more.

By: facebook-698481179

facebook-698481179 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:25:47 +0000

Looks like the iPhone has had this for 8 months:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps49T0iJwVg

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/...

By: quadrofolio

quadrofolio — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:15:32 +0000

Hmm the app was clearly copies from Layer. Check it out. Offers way more than just the subway stations but just about everything of interest. (in holland anyway)

By: David Nelms

David Nelms — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:12:52 +0000

Nice. Looks similar to the Paris Metro iPhone app (which also provides push alerts when a line is disrupted):

http://www.metroparisiphone.com/index_en.html

Of course, if WayFinder ports to iPhone OS, wonder how the NYC AT&T network will handle the additional traffic!

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