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Did you read the entire article? I thought it made sense. Google is adding features to it's own mobile OS maps app while withholding those features from it's

by zerohm 14y ago

Did you read the entire article? I thought it made sense. Google is adding features to it's own mobile OS maps app while withholding those features from it's competitor. Google offered to include the features in exchange for ads and customer data, two things Apple has always tried to minimize. Apple historically defaults to accepting the pain of adopting new technology too early as opposed to too late.

cma 14y ago
I was referring to the `they had to switch now rather than in 6 months due to a version number dance they are mystically locked into for no explained reason`. Gruber is using a weird empiricism to defend everything Apple does. `They were locked into it because that is the pattern!` For instance, why couldn't they have released the new maps with the upcoming iPad mini release, buying a little more time? Historically doing something one way doesn't mean you have to rush out a turd just to keep up a meaningless pattern. You also don't have to step over every crack in the sidewalk to avoid bad joo joo. Gruber uses these little patterns in version numbers, release dates, etc. to make predictions about Apple releases and drive traffic to his blog. He has gotten so obsessed with them that he has flipped the entire utility of them and now uses them quasi-prescriptively in proclamations of what Apple has to do or had to do.
- zerohm 14y ago
  Patterns in numbers are just something he mentions on the side. I don't really read him for the predictions, but he's pretty good in that department. The headline is obnoxious, but the content is spot on. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/09/28/told-you-so http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/09/28/told-you-so Show me another blogger that was warning Apple they needed to get maps right back in May. That's why he gets page views.

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Did you read the entire article? I thought it made sense. Google is adding features to it's own mobile OS maps app while withholding those features from it's

by zerohm 14y ago

cma 14y ago
I was referring to the `they had to switch now rather than in 6 months due to a version number dance they are mystically locked into for no explained reason`. Gruber is using a weird empiricism to defend everything Apple does. `They were locked into it because that is the pattern!` For instance, why couldn't they have released the new maps with the upcoming iPad mini release, buying a little more time? Historically doing something one way doesn't mean you have to rush out a turd just to keep up a meaningless pattern. You also don't have to step over every crack in the sidewalk to avoid bad joo joo. Gruber uses these little patterns in version numbers, release dates, etc. to make predictions about Apple releases and drive traffic to his blog. He has gotten so obsessed with them that he has flipped the entire utility of them and now uses them quasi-prescriptively in proclamations of what Apple has to do or had to do.
- zerohm 14y ago
  Patterns in numbers are just something he mentions on the side. I don't really read him for the predictions, but he's pretty good in that department. The headline is obnoxious, but the content is spot on. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/09/28/told-you-so http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/09/28/told-you-so Show me another blogger that was warning Apple they needed to get maps right back in May. That's why he gets page views.