dominikhoffmann

I prefer Waze for my day-to-day navigation, including for routine trips. The reason is that I know that the maps are up-to-date and the traffic and road-closure data is accurate. What allows Waze to accomplish that is that it obtains data from all Android users, not just those that use Waze, and community-edited maps. Apple has the first component of that from all of its iPhone users. What would help is allowing community members to edit and correct map details.

To give you a couple of examples:

1. I am not a Waze map editor myself. It’s a bit complicated—which keeps vandals away, too, I guess. A nearby road has a 30-day closure, because of roadway realignment, starting in two days. I reported this in the Waze map. An editor has already implemented this change and scheduled it, and two days from now, I can expect Waze to send me on a detour (not necessarily the officially suggested one). After 30 days this road closure will automatically disappear, unless someone reports that the construction project finished early, or—let’s hope not—took longer.
2. A while back, Waze advised me to make a left turn across a median that was not interrupted at that point. I reported that, and a community editor implemented that change. Community editors are eager to help make even minor edits like that, which improve overall map accuracy.

With Apple’s loyal following, I would think that an army of willing editors could easily be found who conscientiously would make edits. This could propel Apple Maps ahead and would likely help especially in markets outside of the U.S., on which Apple places a lower priority (case in point: today’s news that Apple Pay is rolling out in Morocco, nine years after its inception).

The Mac Pro could be made to allow the use of PCI-based RAM as 2nd-tier memory. Then the SoC RAM would act as a rather huge cache. Alternatively, code could be programmed to perform certain less time-sensitive operations in that 2nd-tier RAM. This would then give users the opportunity to upgrade their RAM with aftermarket hardware.

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Pema said:

Microsoft (of DOS & Windows infamy) that has more bugs and malware than there are pebbles on the beach. They are so busy swatting their sheit, when do they have the time to debug others? 

Maybe they are reverse-engineering macOS, in order to implement some of the security features while circumventing any relevant patents.

AppleInsider said:

In comparison, OneDrive allows maximum file sizes up to 250GB, and the highest amount of storage you can pay for is 6TB -- three times more than iCloud. It's an enormous storage capacity but is not impossible to fill if you work with professional video production or photography.

The statement about the maximum being 6 TB is misleading. With an implication that the standard 1 TB OneDrive could be upgraded to a single 6 TB, I got really excited, because I was not aware of that. Checking into it further it became clear that this is the 6 × 1 TB storage in six 1 TB OneDrives for each of up to six family members. Those cannot be consolidated into a single volume, unfortunately.