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No, Apple has a "liberal arts problem" in that they don't seem to have the hard core folks to do algorithms in the way that Google does. Apple has a lot of sm

No, Apple has a "liberal arts problem" in that they don't seem to have the hard core folks to do algorithms in the way that Google does. Apple has a lot of smart people, but can you really see them building a self driving car with tons of lasers spinning on it in order to have super accurate maps? I can't. But that's what Google did. Its also a "device centric problem": I'm always struck when talking with someone from Apple about how device centric they are thinking (running algorithms locally that should run in the cloud, etc.). The cloud is eating the world and device centric thinking, while its done them well for a while, is increasingly incorrect.

001sky 14y ago
No, Apple has a "liberal arts problem" -- Seriously? This is "analysis"? A "a self driving car with tons of lasers spinning on it"? Learn before you speak. The noticeable problems are not subtle: clouds covering cities in the UK, buildings not being named on College Campus, etc. Stadia 0.5km out of place. They are obvious, silly, dealbreaker problems for Soccer Moms and Sociology FFS. Algo's are not going to solve this cr@p, its Cartpgraphy 101...and in any event, Google has to hand fit the data that they do have, for a variety of reasons, to sat-nav visuals (including incosistent basemaps).
- outside1234 14y ago
  Sorry - I shouldn't have dumped on the liberal arts - maybe I should have used "left brain." Algorithms are indeed solving a lot of these problems for Google. They are reading the street signs and shop signs for peet's sake!
- pbharrin 14y ago
  Totally agree. I know, from many sources that a lot of human labor goes into making the Google data so good. They used to give out cookies to employees who would filter search results as porn/not porn. Algos can only get you so far.
snowwrestler 14y ago
If the cloud is eating the world, why did Google buy a mobile OS company and then a mobile device company? If Apple is too device-centric, why does Siri send every query to their data center instead of processing it on the phone? In short, I don't think you've thought deeply about what you're writing.

001sky 14y ago

No, Apple has a "liberal arts problem" -- Seriously? This is "analysis"? A "a self driving car with tons of lasers spinning on it"? Learn before you speak. The noticeable problems are not subtle: clouds covering cities in the UK, buildings not being named on College Campus, etc. Stadia 0.5km out of place. They are obvious, silly, dealbreaker problems for Soccer Moms and Sociology FFS. Algo's are not going to solve this cr@p, its Cartpgraphy 101...and in any event, Google has to hand fit the data that they do have, for a variety of reasons, to sat-nav visuals (including incosistent basemaps).

outside1234 14y ago
Sorry - I shouldn't have dumped on the liberal arts - maybe I should have used "left brain." Algorithms are indeed solving a lot of these problems for Google. They are reading the street signs and shop signs for peet's sake!
pbharrin 14y ago
Totally agree. I know, from many sources that a lot of human labor goes into making the Google data so good. They used to give out cookies to employees who would filter search results as porn/not porn. Algos can only get you so far.

snowwrestler 14y ago

If the cloud is eating the world, why did Google buy a mobile OS company and then a mobile device company? If Apple is too device-centric, why does Siri send every query to their data center instead of processing it on the phone? In short, I don't think you've thought deeply about what you're writing.