Posts by Maury Markowitz

Either you believe in a free market or you don't. It's that simple. If you believe in a free market, then the owner of an invention should be able to sell it to anyone they wish and the new owner can do whatever he wants with it....

I believe this patent has exactly zero chance of succeeding. Let me illustrate why, in depth. Start with the patent. Recall that a patent's legal force is basically equivalent to its Claims. Those start...

The utility of taking up a lot of space on a desktop so that I don't have the plug in a Lightening connector to do the same thing?   Meh.

Originally Posted by drewys808    Moving on to SOLUTIONS...http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/24/how-to-report-a-problem-with-ios-6-maps-data/   This is a solution for POI entries, but not for...

Add to your list:   Why are parks and forests so important to Maps? On every scale, the only objects that are clearly defined are greenspaces. They graphically overwhelm everything else, even airports.

Originally Posted by Tallest Skil    All right, then I don't understand at all why they haven't just used OSM' maps 1:1 with what's online.   Exactly.   Everyone reading this - next time...

Originally Posted by Grouty2  I wonder at the number of people confidently predicting that things will get better quickly in Apple's Maps app because of crowd sourced data. The problem as I see it is that for many...

Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum  BTW, Search for places like Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca or Nazca Lines and there isn't all that much difference between the two maps apps. I tried the first one. I puts the...

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Originally Posted by satchmo  Umm...because Google Maps hasn't ever mistaken a search query? Sheeh, chill folks. One? Sure. EVERY one? No.   Maps hasn't succeeded in a single query I've thrown at it. Either...