Yesterday’s demo of Windows 7 focussed heavily on multi touch. In fact, it was pretty much only about multi touch. And the only part of the demo which we hadn’t already seen on the iPhone was the rather swish Google Earth style browser. Well, it turns out that the iPhone has that, too.
Earthscape is a native iPhone application which will ship some time after the official iPhone app store goes live. In the video you can see the usual browsing conventions: double-tap to zoom in and swoosh your finger across the screen to scroll. What makes Earthscape extremely cool, though, is the use of the iPhone’s tilt sensors. It’s like a game of Marble Madness, only with the whole world to play with.
Earthscape is currently also in beta for Windows, and will be made available for OS X and Linux. It looks like a serious attempt to take a bite out of Google Earth’s market, but we’d say that, unless it brings something very different to the mix, it will last precisely as long as it takes Google to put the Earth on the iPhone. Especially since Google Earth is now available in your browser.
Product page [Earthscape via TechCrunch] Google Earth, meet the browser [Google Lat Long Blog]
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