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by fpgeek 14y ago
Then they could have spent the money hiring armies like Google's to get the map data right.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
> The iPhone is $200. The cheapest new iPhone on sale (the iPhone 4) is $450. If you think it costs less, that's because you have let Apple and the carriers fool you. The cheapest Android, meanwhile, is less than $100. Even better, you
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I think it is less about the customers being out-of-touch with transit users and more about the decisionmakers and the developers...
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Hold on a minute... Apple had already started working on replacing Google Maps approximately a year before Google had launched a single Android device? Wow. Just wow. Now we see how strategically brilliant (and utterly necessary) Android
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Yes, this is Apple. See: The In-App Purchase controversy with eBooks and other applications. For example, did demanding the removal of all links to Amazon.com from the Kindle app (because Amazon didn't want to hand their eBook margin to App
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Or jailbreak, from what I understand.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Unless the rules are different for this process, every piece of prior art that you point to now that an examiner doesn't agree with / understand is a piece of prior art that can't be reused further down the line (e.g. in a trial).
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by fpgeek 14y ago
It depends on what kind of updates you're talking about. OS updates are a problem, but I personally know that the G1 got around 3 years of Maps app updates, and given the current OS version distribution newer devices are likely to do even b
909.
by fpgeek 14y ago
Zagat and Frommer's aren't comprehensive, but surely they're at least important POI databases?
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Um, doesn't Apple source much of their underlying data from TomTom? Absent incredible stupidity on one side and/or the other could TomTom really be holding out on them?
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Citation please? So far as I know, Nokia was a leader in non/pre-iOS/Android app markets. For some reason I think their results weren't competitive with iOS or even Android...
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by fpgeek 14y ago
True, but a company that is already the target of one antitrust lawsuit probably has less leeway than it used to.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
To be fair, plenty of American cities have crappy public transit. On the other hand, plenty of people in non-US cities absolutely depend on public transit because cars and/or gas are substantially more expensive (on an absolute basis and/or
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by fpgeek 14y ago
To me, Google's tone at their pre-WWDC Maps event (and the effort they made to demonstrate things on iOS devices) doesn't seem consistent with the hypothesis that they decided to force Apple's hand.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Dueling anonymous sources. Wonderful. That being said, 9to5Mac seems to emphasize that an app was submitted and Jim Dalrymple seems to emphasize that it isn't sitting in review. There's one simple way those could be consistent: an app could
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by fpgeek 14y ago
The advertising isn't intrusive in the Android version of Maps. It's also worth noting that, like search advertisements, Maps advertisements have the potential to be useful. If I'm looking for a restaurant near some location, restaurants th
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Are you sure? Putting Maps aside, Apple is currently dragging their feet (or worse) over Google Voice Search: http://searchengineland.com/ios-users-to-get-enhanced-google... Note the current Google Search app on iTunes (last updated on Ju
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Might I suggest getting a Galaxy Nexus instead of a Nexus One? The Nexus One is pretty dated at this point...
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by fpgeek 14y ago
These days, I'd imagine Nokia would have something to say about Microsoft sharing mapping technology with Apple.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Given that Nokia is already selling map data to Amazon for the Kindle Fire, they almost certainly do. That being said, their means of taking advantage might be pointing out their WP8 phones' relative advantage in this area.
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Android phones adopt Miracast in hopes of taking on Apple's AirPlay(theverge.com)
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Some number of years ago you could have said exactly the same about Windows XP.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
> First and most importantly lets highlight an exceptionally important issue that well equipped web developers _always_ seem to forget: 2.X was 84% of Android market share as recently as a month ago. ICS and Jellybean are tiny by compar
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Given the relative popularity of mass transit inside and outside the US, I'm wondering if we're going to see greater divergence between iOS's US and non-US market share after iOS 6. I'm also wondering if that's why this mistake was possible
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Maybe it works if your name isn't Amazon, Google, B&N, Kobo, Sony and so on? (probably not)
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I'd certainly agree that Mobile Safari is superior to the stock Gingerbread browser (and even the stock ICS browser, to a lesser extent). That being said, are you asserting that Mobile Safari is "hands down" better than other members of the
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Um, Google doesn't have a DoJ mess with eBooks, Apple does. The Google Books lawsuit is primarily a dispute with authors and publishers about fair use. The DoJ's involvement in that is tangential (and AFAIK was limited to commenting on and
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Yes, I definitely worry that of the many negative impacts of Apple's patent lawsuits that the worst might be creating a popular constituency that has begun to believe in the legitimacy of our deeply broken patent system.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Not that I disapprove of the sentiment, but wasn't announcing the reason you were dropping support the equivalent of waving a red flag in front of a bull?
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by fpgeek 14y ago
The language isn't as restrictive as you're suggesting. Here's the quote from section 3.3: "All fees received by Developers for Products distributed via the Market must be processed by the Market's Payment Processor. " The key distinction i

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