Posts by hillstones

Quote: Originally Posted by Right_said_fred  There was at least one 13 silver Macbook with decent discrete graphics, it was the last with swappable battery. I have a 15MBP retina maxed out for my own use - its...

The iPod Touch 5th Gen 32 GB and 64 GB models are the SAME price as the iPod Touch 4th Gen with the same sizes.  Your article is misguided into making the reader believe that the price has increased, when it has not.  Apple...

Quote: Originally Posted by Chungst  There's two small typos in your description chart. The 2011 iPod Touch 4G has a (a)5 MP rear camera and a (b) 0.7 MP front camera as opposed to the 0.7 MP and 0.3 MP listed in the...

They forgot Streetviewer, which brings back Street View to iOS 6, by accessing the Google data.

The maps in iOS 6 is so bad, they could not even get Los Angeles right.  Hello...major metropolitan city and they got that wrong.  Compare the LA Zoo in both Google and Apple Maps.  The Apple Maps doesn't even have a...

They didn't use lube.

Quote: Originally Posted by replicant  Apple should have implemented its own MAP solution years ago when they heard that Google was going to encroach on their turf and build a mobile phone which is similar in...

Turn by turn navigation is, and was already available on the iPhone by many different app vendors, so this argument doesn't make sense.  The other app vendors have better solutions than Apple's sad attempt with Maps in iOS 6.

Quote: Originally Posted by lalaruza  IOS 6 maps rocks for me ! No issues yet and I will bet in less than 2 years it will be far better than google maps was after their first 2 years....   The sad reality...

"It (Apple) wanted to show off an amazing Maps experience that raised the bar and would leave Google scrambling to port a good enough version of its own maps to compete with it."   Now that is the funniest BS line I have ever...