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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 21 2012 @ 03:20 PM EDT |
Apple is not the first, nor will it be the last, to publish maps that are
"incomplete, illogical, positionally erroneous, out of date",
but suffering thematic inaccuracies is sooo not Apple.
Maybe on Point 3 they have already unwittingly hired a mole,
who is working on taking them down from the inside. Apple used
to be good at crowdsourcing, back when Woz was still there.
Buy Tomtom? I can hear the howls of indignation already...
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 22 2012 @ 12:46 PM EDT |
I think it is more of a long-term strategic thing.
Maps are a really big portion of the user experience for
phones - and they get _harder_ to compete with the longer
you wait. So, Apple switching now is probably better than
waiting - eventually, when it all works out, they'll have a
competitive map application and will be less dependent on
Google. I also suspect that Apple's written off the rest of
the world - as their US maps seem to be 'passable' and their
other maps suck - given that Android already won outside of
the USA, this seems reasonable.
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| Authored by: dobbo on Saturday, September 22 2012 @ 01:03 PM EDT |
Thanks for the link, I enjoyed the article and your comment.
But I am now wondering if Apple haven't made a bigger mistake.
If they are developing their own mapping technology then they
must be running the risk of infringed one or more of Google's
patients in (mobile) mapping.
Google is sure to have filed some. And if Google files for an
injunction then, as Apple has embedded that technology into iOS6,
that gives Google a method of getting the iPhone 5 banned
from the US market.
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