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by taligent 14y ago
>and can tell you from experience that good mapping software (and accumulation of good map data) is an extremely difficult problem. What ? Accumulation of good data is very easy these days. It just requires you to open up your chequeboo
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by taligent 14y ago
What exactly is your point ? The person who decided to ditch Google Maps is dead and the person who tried to sell Apple Maps as better than Google has already been fired.
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by taligent 14y ago
They fired the people responsible, wrote a public apology letter and have actively promoted third party map apps in the store. What more exactly do you want them to do commit seppuku ?
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by taligent 14y ago
No Forstall was forced to resign because of a lot of mistakes under his watch and a lot of bad blood between him and key people like Ive and Mansfield. With Samsung emphasising the design aspect in the Samsung S3/Note it is critical that Ap
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by taligent 14y ago
I think you are spot on about the reason for change in management. What Apple has needed and needs more in the future is partnerships. It is the ONLY real failure of the entire Maps project. There are plenty of data providers around the wor
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by taligent 14y ago
Weird that people are voting you down. I develop backend systems for a living and also would separate a data problem from a backend problem. Let's be clear here. Apple has a data problem.
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by taligent 14y ago
In a situation like this the terms of service will not affect you, your account will not be blocked and the payment service will not stop working. People keep forgetting that the overwhelming majority of all eBay payments are done using Pay
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by taligent 14y ago
Well this just shows how little you know about deployments. Using something like Hudson/Jenkins can make deployments simple borderline trivial and EC2 supports ElasticBeanstalk which makes deployments a breeze.
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by taligent 14y ago
Definitely Java/Tomcat. Most enterprises use Java and will have dev ops who are experienced in deploying apps into Tomcat. I personally have never seen a Python app in an enterprise before and couldn't even name one. If you are looking for
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by taligent 14y ago
And how is this any different from your average book or video store ?
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by taligent 14y ago
Well this is just rubbish. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6440/google-nexus-4-review/2 The iPhone 5 has nearly DOUBLE the battery life of the Nexus 4 for typical usage. If you disable LTE it will be even better.
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by taligent 14y ago
Actually in this year it is the middle tier of teams that have been responsible for most of the race-affecting accidents. In particular Maldonardo (Williams) and Grosjean (Lotus). I've found the bottom tier of teams to mostly be harmless. U
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by taligent 14y ago
Evernote, Omnigraffle, Reeder.
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by taligent 14y ago
Use of the many, many other map apps or just use the website. Not a huge deal really.
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by taligent 14y ago
There is no doubt it would add value. Just that it is expensive. Something like Librato Metrics also adds value for me. One costs $2/month the other $150/month. Both roughly equivalent technically.
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by taligent 14y ago
The first two are obviously Scala only which is of no help to those with existing Java code bases. And for templates Japid is much, much faster than the Scala equivalent. It does seem that real time data management is a good use case for Pl
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by taligent 14y ago
I agree. But you would hope so for their very expensive pricing model.
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by taligent 14y ago
I do understand your point as far as templates go. But they could have replaced the template engine or even improved on Japid. It just seems that for the rest of the system there isn't any real benefit over Play1 if you are using Java as op
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by taligent 14y ago
See this is something I've never understood. What is this obsession with type safety/everything compiled ? Any possible benefits to the developer disappear in the face of a huge increase in complexity.
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by taligent 14y ago
Nice work. Play 2 needs a LOT of work to get back to the simplicity and elegance of Play 1. This sort of effort really helps that.
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by taligent 14y ago
I always laugh at clueless people who keep talking about current devices like iPad Mini or iPhone 5 as a sign that Apple is dying without Steve Jobs. Especially when Steve Jobs was personally involved in all of these decisions.
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by taligent 14y ago
I don't think so. Maps is a storm in a tea cup as we've seen from Apple and it's massive sales forecasts for iPhone 5 and iPad Mini. Gmail has third party apps. And if Samsung setup their own app store it would be very popular overnight.
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by taligent 14y ago
Actually Android isn't free. It is so patent encumbered (and hence requiring of royalty fees) that options like Windows Phone end up being a cheaper option.
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by taligent 14y ago
You are missing the point. None of it is selling well. The OS or the Surface itself. And HP, the biggest OEM seems pretty dismissive of the idea of Microsoft eating their lunch: http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/15/hps-todd-bradley-doesnt-s.
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by taligent 14y ago
Except that lots of reports are coming out that Win8/Surface have not been selling well.
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by taligent 14y ago
Kind of funny that every single thing you said is wrong. Apple isn't overpriced according to its P/E. The market couldn't have cared less about maps. The iPad Mini looks like being a bigger success than even Apple predicted according to Mor
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by taligent 14y ago
Please. Killing the clones was the only choice Steve had. The cloners e.g. Power Computing in particular weren't interested in the Mac platform at all. They were simply interested in making money. And the easiest way to do this was to targe
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by taligent 14y ago
Do you have some evidence that Classics had this before Apple ?
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by taligent 14y ago
You know patents really aren't that hard to understand. If prior art exists then the patent will be invalidated in court. Just as has been done in the past and will be done in the future.
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by taligent 14y ago
The most concerning part of all of this is that the concept of patent exhaustion has been weakened. It is going to cause massive distress to the entire electronics industry if you can no longer purchase a component and expect to be indemnif

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