The amount of detail may be more than desirable as you can scan a map rather than just see what’s nearby, but not being tied to the game itself they can’t really “limit” it to your location or give you the same level of desired information.

Again, if you read the open letter, it was never intended to be a cheat, it was meant as a temporary compromise because Niantic has had their heads up their ***** and not fixed the tracking bugs after several weeks, which is a critical feature to playing this game unless your content to only catch rattatas and pidgeys….

Money shouldn’t be an issue, they’ve had millions of users put money into this app, received loads of publicity, doubled nintendos stock price, the list goes on. Finding programmers shouldn’t be an issue: this is the kind of job a lot of programmers would love.

The issue is that Niantic has failed to adapt to the needs its product demonstrates. If this trend continues the game is doomed to be a flop, with many angry users who have put hopes and money into it.

That is the essence this essay is trying to capture. So I hope you’ll accept these facts are real, there are unmet needs, and stop whining about “cheating”; while it is a cause for *some* concern, you can at least see justification for its existence.

As an aside: this is not even close to the worst form of cheating in Pokemon Go, but Niantic saw fit to focus shutting down Pokevision rather than fix their issues then address this issue; Niantic is also doing squat about GPS spoofing or bots being used to create strong-ish accounts that are then sold (now come on that’s practically theft).