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Apple’s $30B Maps

September 30, 2012 – 7:24 pm

Tweet  A short week after releasing the iPhone 5, Apple’s CEO publicly apologizes for the Maps fiasco and the company’s website updates its description of the new service. As the digital inspirations blog found out, the unfortunately emphatic description that once read: Designed by Apple from the ground up, Maps gives you turn-by-turn spoken directions, [...]

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Apple Maps: Damned If You Do, Googled If You Don’t

September 23, 2012 – 5:09 pm

TweetWhile still a teenager, my youngest daughter was determined to take on the role of used car salesperson when we sold our old Chevy Tahoe. Her approach was impeccable: Before letting the prospective buyer so much as touch the car, she gave him a tour of its defects, the dent in the rear left fender, [...]

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Navigation’s Destination

January 9, 2011 – 6:23 pm

Tweetby Jean-Louis Gassée The frustrations began with the (many) limitations of the Pioneer after-market navigation system in the Toyota I use while in France. I can deal with the inscrutable UI and the belligerent touch screen—“resistive technology”, indeed–but I need up-to-date maps (which are clearly antiquated on this device) and a precise reading of my [...]

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