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This entire article boils down to one sentence "According to trusted sources, Apple has an incredible headline feature in development for iOS 6: a completely in
by yellowbkpk 14y ago
This entire article boils down to one sentence "According to trusted sources, Apple has an incredible headline feature in development for iOS 6: a completely in-house maps application."
The rest of it is speculation about what might exist.
- laconian 14y agoThe headline is obnoxious too. It hasn't happened. It might happen, but the way they wrote it makes it sound like Tim Cook got on a podium and announced that to the world.
- LaSombra 14y agoThat's the Apple's distortion field in action.
- jkap 14y agoNo, it's shitty journalism in action.
- laconian 14y agoThe RDF gives free license to shitty journalism. Trendy subjects makes SEO-obsessed content mill writers happy. Just read Techmeme - the content is almost all trendy garbage.
- Zirro 14y agoThere's nothing wrong with speculating based on facts, as long as you make it clear that it's speculation and not reality.
- weiran 14y agoThey're not speculating based on fact, they're speculating based on an anonymous source's tip, which may or may not be true. In fact given their history of posting about every Apple rumour that exists, I wouldn't put much weight onto the accuracy of this rumour at all. This doesn't mean I don't think a new maps app is coming, I just don't think 9to5mac's sources would know about it if it was.
- wmeredith 14y agoI think the primary component of Apple's distortion field is shitty journalism.
- deepGem 14y agoAs speculative as it seems, this coincides with that mapping company Apple bought in recent times. Forgot the name of the company, but they had some beautiful 3D views of select cities. For all you know Apple might make 3D maps standard in iOS 6. Damn, wouldn't that be something :).
- robin_reala 14y agoThat would be Nokia. See: http://maps3d.svc.nokia.com/webgl/ http://maps3d.svc.nokia.com/webgl/
- headShrinker 14y agoApple bought a startup focused on mapping but it wasn't Nokia. I don't remember the name of the company...
- nextparadigms 14y agoIt was this: http://www.slashgear.com/apple-acquires-c3-technologies-for-next-generation-3d-mapping-29191834/ http://www.slashgear.com/apple-acquires-c3-technologies-for-... It looks a lot like Google Earth. Google can just integrate Google Earth into the mobile maps to compete. They've already done it on the web version.
- ajross 14y agoThat's what I keep thinking every time someone talks about Google getting beaten in maps. They've had the "eye candy maps app" available for download for seven years now. That said, having some competition in the market is a good thing. I do wish more of it was concentrated on free products like OpenStreetMap though.
- culturestate 14y agoThere's a distinct difference, as far as I know: the C3 solution can do large-scale automated rendering of 3D terrain based on aerial photography, and Google Earth's geomodeling is done by hand. That means that Apple can, effectively, render the entire world in 3D if they choose to, limited only by money and computing resources. Google is limited by manpower.
- damncabbage 14y agoIn particular, the breathless "Video: What the Hoover Dam will look like on the iOS 6 3D Map mode".
- brudgers 14y agoAnd yet there it is on the front page of HN.