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I took significant pleasure in downvoting your troll and even more at having a karmic position sufficient to openly gloat about it.

pasbesoin 14y ago
Admittedly, it may have been a bit trollish. But I also think it may well have been a serious perspective on Apple's part. "Because we can" seems to be a significant factor in their actions that has been increasingly publicly noted. To some extent (and I've been around Apple products since the '80's), it always has been an apparent aspect of Apple's approach and perspective. I don't know what happened internally (and Apple is well-known for lack of communication on such things), but they definitely shipped their Maps product with some significant shortcomings. And they apparently (I'm not too familiar with this) didn't list and engage in some recent pertinent hiring until they shipped. I wonder whether the delay in recruitment was in part to avoid spilling the beans on what was coming. And I wonder whether they planned for their user base being forced to "beta" the thing as a source to rapidly identify and triage failure points. As I recall now, aren't they also basing it partly off of open, public mapping data? And if that is the case, what better way to force data refinement than to force usage of same upon the public (or a significant chunk representing their iOS 6 user base)? Of course, they may not have suspected -- or communicated sufficiently, internally -- how bad things might/would be. But, someone had to know about these problems, to a significant degree. How else were they going to approach the attendant problems? On the face of it, it smells like a beta -- certainly from a data perspective. Image-wise, this is about 1 year after Jobs' passing. And for this very image-conscious company, I wonder how things got to this point. Certainly the pundits have been looking for signs of, erm, 'negative changes' including citing Jobs', erm, 'manic perfection'. As for myself, you may be right. I've been getting pretty "quippy" and at least somewhat sarcastic, lately. It is probably time for me to give commenting a break, for a while. And for that feedback, I thank you (seriously). Regards

pasbesoin 14y ago

Admittedly, it may have been a bit trollish. But I also think it may well have been a serious perspective on Apple's part. "Because we can" seems to be a significant factor in their actions that has been increasingly publicly noted. To some extent (and I've been around Apple products since the '80's), it always has been an apparent aspect of Apple's approach and perspective. I don't know what happened internally (and Apple is well-known for lack of communication on such things), but they definitely shipped their Maps product with some significant shortcomings. And they apparently (I'm not too familiar with this) didn't list and engage in some recent pertinent hiring until they shipped. I wonder whether the delay in recruitment was in part to avoid spilling the beans on what was coming. And I wonder whether they planned for their user base being forced to "beta" the thing as a source to rapidly identify and triage failure points. As I recall now, aren't they also basing it partly off of open, public mapping data? And if that is the case, what better way to force data refinement than to force usage of same upon the public (or a significant chunk representing their iOS 6 user base)? Of course, they may not have suspected -- or communicated sufficiently, internally -- how bad things might/would be. But, someone had to know about these problems, to a significant degree. How else were they going to approach the attendant problems? On the face of it, it smells like a beta -- certainly from a data perspective. Image-wise, this is about 1 year after Jobs' passing. And for this very image-conscious company, I wonder how things got to this point. Certainly the pundits have been looking for signs of, erm, 'negative changes' including citing Jobs', erm, 'manic perfection'. As for myself, you may be right. I've been getting pretty "quippy" and at least somewhat sarcastic, lately. It is probably time for me to give commenting a break, for a while. And for that feedback, I thank you (seriously). Regards