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Google To Buy Waze For $1.3 Billion
An anonymous reader writes "Google and Israeli start-up Waze have agreed in principle on a deal in which the search engine giant will buy the road traffic information sharing application for $1.3 billion. Waze, which claims more than 40 million users, describes itself as an app bringing together 'the world's largest community of drivers who work together to fight traffic, and save time and gas money on their daily commute.' There have been previous reports that first Apple and then Facebook wanted to acquire the Israeli start-up."
That's because Apple kit is designed for hipsters and hipsters don't drive.
They cycle round on their fixies and care not what the road names are but where the closest place they can sip a latte is.
You're not Apple's demographic, you're just not hip enough, that's why you're having problems. If you were part of their demographic then you wouldn't be complaining, you'd just "think different" about it all and feel happy about the complete lack of worthwhile information and functionality.
Sorry, I messed that one up big time! It should be:
Well, if you live in Israel, Google maps doesn't have streetnames for almost half of your capital, or for your second largest city. Nor, for that matter, for the fourth and fifth largest city in your country.
And if you deny that those cities are in your country, could you kindly inform your government so that they can withdraw their troops?