Apple rumored to take on Google's 3D maps with superior technology

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  • Reply 81 of 157
    mstonemstone Posts: 11,510member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Conscript View Post


    You need to "record" one meeting per year, where you write down the attendance and that you all resolved to continue operations.



    Publicly traded corporations take minutes of every board meeting. Private corporations are only required once a year as you say. Audio is optional.
  • Reply 82 of 157
    aizmovaizmov Posts: 989member
    Simple maps work for me. I don't even use satellite view, I certainly won't be using this anytime soon.
  • Reply 83 of 157
    mstonemstone Posts: 11,510member
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    Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum View Post


    Great video... nice find!





    That was a well made video. I hate all the keyboard clicking noises though. That effect always annoys me because in those top secret intelligence gathering situations they always have very quiet keyboards specially designed to prevent the key strokes from being audibly deciphered.
  • Reply 84 of 157
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by MaroonMushroom View Post


    Wait. What?



    -What does this have to do with Eric Schmidt?

    -What does this have to do with "stealing ideas"?

    -You DO realize that Apple is the one using Google's map technology right now.





    And that's the point of Apple buying various mapping companies for themselves.



    Herp Derp.
  • Reply 85 of 157
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by island hermit View Post


    HiDPI and 3D mapping... what sort of horsepower would that take? It sounds like the iPad will really need that 20nm tech being developed by TSMC to prolong battery life.



    The 210 GFLOPS Series 6 "Rogue" GPUs from PowerVR?
  • Reply 86 of 157
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lukeskymac View Post


    And that's the point of Apple buying various mapping companies for themselves.



    Herp Derp.



    Obviously that is the point, and you apparently read my reply out of context.





    Apple simply needs voice guided, 3D map navigation.
  • Reply 87 of 157
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lukeskymac View Post


    The 210 GFLOPS Series 6 "Rogue" GPUs from PowerVR?



    ...hey, what's the big deal... it's only a few hundred million polygons per second...
  • Reply 88 of 157
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by The Mock Turtleneck View Post


    Oh how so insightful. What did they steal exactly? Do elaborate if I may say so. Oh and remember to back up your claims too. The burden of proof is on you.





    I rest my case.
  • Reply 89 of 157
    negafoxnegafox Posts: 480member
    I won't believe it until I see it. Rumors have been floating for a couple years that Apple is working on a new Maps app, that well, isn't a complete joke compared to the competition.



    Simple is useless when all suggested routes try to route me through toll roads when they can be easily avoided.
  • Reply 90 of 157


    Jobs said, ?I will spend my last dying breath if I need to,

    and I will spend every penny of Apple?s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong.

    I?m going to destroy Android, because it?s a stolen product.

    I?m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.?

    At a cafe in Palo Alto, Calif., (where the two men were photographed),

    Jobs told Schmidt he was not interested in settling the lawsuit.



    ?I don?t want your money.

    If you offer me $5 billion, I won?t want it.

    I?ve got plenty of money.

    I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that?s all I want.?
  • Reply 91 of 157
    conradjoeconradjoe Posts: 1,887member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Johnny Mozzarella View Post




    Jobs said, ?I will spend my last dying breath if I need to,

    and I will spend every penny of Apple?s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong.

    I?m going to destroy Android, because it?s a stolen product.

    I?m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.?

    At a cafe in Palo Alto, Calif., (where the two men were photographed),

    Jobs told Schmidt he was not interested in settling the lawsuit.



    ?I don?t want your money.

    If you offer me $5 billion, I won?t want it.

    I?ve got plenty of money.

    I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that?s all I want.?







    Good stuff.



  • Reply 92 of 157
    conradjoeconradjoe Posts: 1,887member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Johnny Mozzarella View Post




    I rest my case.



    Is that an HTC phone on the bottom?
  • Reply 93 of 157
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by ConradJoe View Post


    Is that an HTC phone on the bottom?



    Yes it is.



    Also, the first Android phone (The G1) had a full touch screen.
  • Reply 94 of 157
    nkalunkalu Posts: 315member
    With this Apple is set to redefine 3D mapping it did voice search with Siri.

    When it all comes together, Apple will revolutionize search technology.
  • Reply 95 of 157
    This is just plain stu***. Siri was an application just like any other that Apple decided to buy and add it to the base iOS. This is not something they came up with. Andoid had voice commands for the last couple of years so in my opinion Steve Gods bought it to be able to match what Andoird already had. Second there are other applications in both app stores with the same functionality so there is no reason for Google to add anything else to the core OS since Android already had it and customers that need more can get a free app and that's it. People in this site thinks that Steve Gods came up with the formula for Water, Air and he also invented fire. The only advantage they will always have over Google and MS is that Apple customers for the most part are tech illiterates that believe anything Apple tell them and you read countless stories on the web to prove like the chick put her MacBook in the bathroom with the camera on to fix some issue.
  • Reply 96 of 157
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Johnny Mozzarella View Post




    I rest my case.



    That's HTC sense. And that homescreen doesn't look like iOS (Apple doesn't own the concept of Icons and iOS has no widgets) plus that phone is the HTC incredible. Had that shape BEFORE the iPhone 4 (if you were implying a copy there) and the "button" is a touchpad.



    So bad points.



    Also Android was always a hardware agnostic platform. The bb style prototype was not the sole intent for the os. Ever.



    After seeing the success of the iPhone EVERYONE with sense recognized the paradigm shift and altered the look of their OS accordingly.



    That's not copying, that's inspiration. That's allowed in business. Or at least it was until Apple somehow convinced everyone that inspiration = stealing.



    Here's some help for you.





    iPhone





    Slavish Copy





    Copy





    Inspired





    Inspired and Unique





  • Reply 97 of 157
    jfanningjfanning Posts: 3,398member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by MaroonMushroom View Post


    Yes it is.



    Also, the first Android phone (The G1) had a full touch screen.



    And a full slide out keyboard
  • Reply 98 of 157
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Johnny Mozzarella View Post




    Jobs said, ?I will spend my last dying breath if I need to,

    and I will spend every penny of Apple?s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong.

    I?m going to destroy Android, because it?s a stolen product.

    I?m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.?

    At a cafe in Palo Alto, Calif., (where the two men were photographed),

    Jobs told Schmidt he was not interested in settling the lawsuit.



    ?I don?t want your money.

    If you offer me $5 billion, I won?t want it.

    I?ve got plenty of money.

    I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that?s all I want.?



    He also said he can beat an early detected and easily removable rare slow spreading form of a deadly cancer (the form you'd wish to have if u had no choice) with new age bullshit.



    So he wasn't always right.
  • Reply 99 of 157
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by jfanning View Post


    And a full slide out keyboard



    And a trackball
  • Reply 100 of 157
    dave k.dave k. Posts: 1,306member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by JONOROM View Post


    Because Apple decided there was a better way. More effective, more timely and less dangerous to Apple. Read FOSS on this topic.



    What is FOSS?
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