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Pretty simple. Apple can do what Google does. Buy/license data from third parties. You didn't think Google created all of it did you ?
by taligent 14y ago
Pretty simple. Apple can do what Google does. Buy/license data from third parties.
You didn't think Google created all of it did you ?
- fpgeek 14y agoUm, that's what Apple is already doing. So far, it isn't working. Google started doing more than that quite some time ago. They even stopped using TomTom / Tele Atlas (one of Apple's bigger third-party data suppliers) in 2009. Does basing a lot of your map data on a source that Google rejected years ago sound like a way to stay competitive? Moreover, one of the things I've seen mapping experts say today is that integrating a variety of data providers can make the maps problem harder instead of easier.
- rabidsnail 14y ago> Moreover, one of the things I've seen mapping experts say today is that integrating a variety of data providers can make the maps problem harder instead of easier. A man with one watch always knows what time it is. A man with two watches never does.
- BitMastro 14y agoYou also forgot "and put a lot of effort and many years of research and human-curated content". Of course they can do it, but can they do in a short time? Probably not.
- hyperbovine 14y agoGoogle Maps is seven years old. Do you really think people are going to wait around until 2019 for Apple to fix this? This is a rare but genuine example of (the modern) Apple completely fucking up; it surprises me that some people are so unwilling to acknowledge the fact.
- jarcoal 14y agoIt won't take 7 years to make another mapping solution. Google took that long because they had to blaze a lot of new trails that Apple can conveniently learn from.