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iPhone screen size to remain the same; Apple product pipeline is “chock full”
During Apple’s earnings conference call yesterday, Tim Cook was asked during the Q&A portion whether or not Apple has plans to release phones with larger screens in the near future. Q: Many of your competitors are differentiating themselves with larger screen sizes. How do you feel about the market in that respect? Is there a long […]
Continue reading...Apple didn’t make bid to acquire Waze, but Microsoft, Facebook and Google did – Report
Monday, January 7, 2013
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Last week there was a lot of hullabaloo surrounding Apple’s alleged interest in acquiring Waze, the social turn-by-turn navigation company based founded by Israeli’s Ehud Shabtai, Amir Shinar and Uri Levine. In case you’re unfamiliar, Waze uses crowd-sourcing from drivers on the road to provide real time traffic updates. The service also enables users to report traffic […]
Continue reading...Google Maps downloaded over 10 million times in 2 days
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
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Looks like we have a mapping battle in our midst!
Continue reading...Nokia to launch Maps app for iOS
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
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And so the Mapping landscape gets a bit more crowded. To further extend its location services, Nokia is launching a maps application for iOS under the HERE brand. Based on HTML5, it will include offline capabilities, voice-guided walk navigation, and public transport directions. The application is scheduled to be available for free download from Apple’s […]
Continue reading...The best thing you’ll read about Apple’s Maps “fiasco”
Friday, October 19, 2012
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The entire Maps “fiasco”, in my opinion, was overblown. The sky didn’t fall, the iPhone didn’t explode, and people didn’t return Apple’s 6th gen smartphone en masse. Quite the contrary, folks were snatching them up faster than Apple could make them. Of all the millions of words that have undoubtedly been written about Apple’s Maps […]
Continue reading...Alleged photos of standalone Google Maps app for iOS emerge
Monday, October 15, 2012
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When Apple announced its homegrown Maps app at WWDC this past Summer, the news reportedly took Google by complete surprise – after all, the two companies still had a year left on their contract vis a vis Google Maps on iOS.
Continue reading...Apple’s new vector Maps work great for offline browsing
Monday, October 8, 2012
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Despite getting a lot of flack over the mapping inconsistencies and irregularities in its homegrown Mapping application, Apple’s new Maps are vector based as opposed raster-based and as a result enable iOS users to still browse Maps in surprising detail even when there’s no data connection, assuming of course that a user has visited the […]
Continue reading...Apple’s Flyover 3D Maps starting to see improvements
Monday, October 8, 2012
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It’s hardly a fiasco, but the uproar surrounding Apple’s Maps, overblown though it may have been, was not necessarily good press for Apple. At the same time, it’s not as if it really impacted sales of the iPhone 5 which moved over 5 million units on launch weekend alone. That said, Tim Cook not too […]
Continue reading...Google add Street View functionality to web-based Google Maps
Thursday, October 4, 2012
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As predicted yesterday by All Things D, Google Street View has now been added as an option on Google’s mobile web app for iOS devices. Apple of course has been criticized for the shortcomings in its own homegrown Maps app, so much so that CEO Tim Cook was prompted to issue an apology letter to […]
Continue reading...Apple tapping retail employees to help out with Mapping efforts – Report
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
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In Tim Cook’s apology letter to iPhone users over Maps in iOS 6, the Apple CEO said that Apple will “keep on working non-stop until Maps” lives up to the same high standard Apple employs across the rest of its hardware and software line. To that end, we’ve seen reports that Apple has already taken […]
Continue reading...AOL’s MapQuest sees surge in popularity in wake of iPhone 5 release
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
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Late last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook issued an apology to iPhone users over the shortcomings in Apple’s homegrown mapping application. Indeed, the days previous were filled with user complaints and, depending on your vantage point, comical photographic examples of Apple’s Maps app displaying incorrect information. Cook promised that Apple would work relentlessly to get […]
Continue reading...Will Apple extend its Maps service to Macs and PCs?
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
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Apple is diving head first into Maps. Yeah yeah, we all know about Apple’s missteps thus far and all the hard work they have to do. Hell, Tim Cook even issued a rare public apology to iPhone users, going so far as to recommend competing mapping applications for users thoroughly underwhelmed with Apple’s own offering. […]
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
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