Nokia HERE Maps will 'wind down' Windows Phone app development in favor of Android and iOS (Update)

Nokia's HERE Maps sectionalisation won't be spending as much development time on the Windows Phone platform as it has in the past. In a new interview with The Next Web, Sean Fernback, the Senior Vice President, Everyday Mobility, at the company's Hither division, is quoted as maxim, "As a result of the transaction, we're having to wind down our Windows Phone app development and shift it over towards Android and iOS."

The "transaction" Fernback is referring to is, of class, Microsoft'southward acquisition of Nokia's Devices and Services division in April. Nokia has made no secret of the fact that it wants to expand its Here Maps efforts so it tin can exist a feasible competitor to Google Maps. A few weeks ago, it launched an Android version of its Hither Maps app for Samsung smartphones and will expand that app to more Android devices, every bit well as iOS, later this yr.

In today's interview, Fernback says that while the Windows Telephone development of HERE Maps may not be getting as much attention anymore, it won't be going away completely. He added, "It's a dialogue we're having [with Microsoft], and so nosotros will see where it takes usa." It'due south more than possible that the ii companies could reach an agreement that will permit HERE Maps to continue heavy development on the Windows Phone front.

HERE Maps launched as a Windows Telephone, and Nokia Lumia smartphones, exclusive in 2022, in a rebranding of Nokia Maps. Nokia besides released a version of the app for Windows eight.ane. Do you recollect Nokia is making the right or wrong decision in scaling down their Windows Phone efforts for Hither Maps?

Update: Pino Bonetti from the HERE Maps squad has left a detailed response below regarding the information presented here. In short, Bonetti reaffirms that Hither Maps volition be used past Microsoft for at least iv years, offline maps are not going anywhere, and that Hither and Microsoft are "discussing with Microsoft how to go on" with software development. In short, this looks to exist more like communicable Microsoft and HERE betwixt talks, rather than any firm decisions, as Microsoft is likely to take on development more in the future.

Source: The Next Web

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