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Re: iPhone 5. Pre-Orders 14/9. Ships 21/9. iOS6 19/9
See that Ninja in the corner of the room there? No, of course not.....he's 30 miles east of where he should be courtesy of "The Amazing New Apple Maps". ;) :p
Re: iPhone 5. Pre-Orders 14/9. Ships 21/9. iOS6 19/9
Loving this one...please let it not be fake. (sometimes tube workers do have a sense of humour)
Incidentally apple's response:
Which is interesting, because unless they've started employing wizards and have developed minority report style...
Re: iPhone 5. Pre-Orders 14/9. Ships 21/9. iOS6 Today @ 6PM
This is the problem. There aren't any.
Google have the best dataset, as mentioned earlier, they've been out with cars and built their own map dataset from the ground up. Not just roads either.
The others main players in geo data...
Re: iPhone 5. Pre-Orders 14/9. Ships 21/9. iOS6 Today @ 6PM
C3 is used only for the 3D tech, the problem with iOS6 maps is not with the 3D but with the datasource used to build the geo data.
Apple can't aquire anybody (barring google) to fix that, fixing it requires a *lot* of time.
Re: iPhone 5. Pre-Orders 14/9. Ships 21/9. iOS6 Today @ 6PM
Apple were the ones who were responsible for the original mapping application, not google - google simply provided the maps, apple wrote the application. Whether they were constrained by their licensing deal with google, Apple never...
Re: iPhone 5. Pre-Orders 14/9. Ships 21/9. iOS6 Today @ 6PM
Almost certainly the first one.
Apple have already done the damage, I can't believe that they've stuck their heads so far into the sand with their "war with google" that they didn't realise that their own offering was, and lets be...
Re: iPhone 5. Pre-Orders 14/9. Ships 21/9. iOS6 Today @ 6PM
Because there isn't one.
Edit:
And because if there were a google maps app, it still would be a third party citizen in iOS because any applications that used the official mapping API will use the inferior Apple maps.
Re: iPhone 5. Pre-Orders 14/9. Ships 21/9. iOS6 Today @ 6PM
You do realise that they collected more information than just pictures for street view?
Their licensing deals with tele-atlas and such like for geo data was costing them huge amounts of money, the cars were also mapping every public...
It's taken google a huge amount of time to get their mapping data to where it should be and that involved spending 3 years driving around cars with cameras to fills them with awesomeness.
I reckon it'll take apple at least 5 years to get anywhere near the current google maps dataset.
Apple...
Re: iPhone 5. Pre-Orders 14/9. Ships 21/9. iOS6 Today @ 6PM
I f**king hate UPS, I try to avoid buying anything that will be shipped with them. That might be an East Anglia thing though, they've seem to have 1 depot that covers the whole region.
Re: iPhone 5. Pre-Orders 14/9 00:01am UK Time. Ships 21/9. iOS6 19/9
I don't think that's exactly fair.
I own a 4S and I've updated on every update cycle, not necessarily because of new hardware, but because the user experience was so good.
Apple have a problem with iOS though, iOS6 is to...
How's jellybean working out for you? How long did it take to get to ICS?
Sd is slow, it's always going to be slower than real flash. (Sd is either spi or a 4 bit data bus).
Google are trying to fix the problems with android fragmentation and lack of handsets running the latest version by...