We don't know what actually happened. As much as Apple wanted to get away from Google for whatever reasons, they want to make good products even more. Maybe he was fired because he told Tim that his maps would be as good as Google's, which led to Tim dropping Google, and when he didn't deliver good maps, that's what caused the firing. Maybe Tim would have been willing to live with Google a little longer if he thought it was necessary, but he was led to believe it wasn't.
Tell the boss you can deliver, then deliver: good.
Tell the boss you can deliver, then don't: bad. Especially if the boss is making other big decisions based on your promise.
So maybe he wasn't fired because Maps was bad per se, but because he didn't do his job well. A subtle but important distinction. Or maybe he wasn't that great in general, and Maps was the last straw. We just don't know. Unlike the last two guys who got sacked, Mr. Map wasn't well-known at all.
And to answer your original question: it's a general rule of the universe that if you're going to replace something, it had better be pretty comparable to what it's replacing. Yes, Google has been doing this for a long time, but "what it takes to make a good map app" is very much a known quantity by now so it should be relatively easy to replicate -- or at least hold your product up in comparison to see if it's as good.
Besides the well-known hilarity of the new Maps, I hate that they got rid of the red/yellow/green indicators for traffic. I'd roll back to iOS 5 for that reason alone* if I could. Plus there are many other details that aren't as good as on the old Maps, and the improvements don't come close to compensating for them.
PS: thanks for being French. "Escape goat" is awesome.:-)
* Also, since upgrading to iOS 6 and then 6.0.1, my iPhone 4S gets literally half the battery life it did under iOS 5. Hoping a future point update fixes this...
And/or Google Earth. My little guy loves both, even more now that both have 3D stuff. Entertaining and educational on many levels. At the most basic, it's just plain fun to spin and push things around.
Yeah, because you really can't appreciate the subtle nuances of "Sink the Pink" unless you hear it after "Danger" as originally intended in 1985. Or, um, after "D.T." in 1986. Right. Anyway...
I love their music, but seriously, he's full of shit.
Holy fucking shit, how did you get a single positive mod, let alone 2 or more?
How was I, weighing 95 pounds my first day of high school*, supposed to react when the fat tub of shit asshole in my gym class decided to tackle me INDOORS onto the hard gym floor for no reason and knock the wind out of me? Fuck you and fuck him.
What if I come to your house with a gun, and you're unarmed? If you act afraid, does that make it OK? And what if you stand your ground and I STILL shoot you? How would you like that?
Tell me exactly what defensive options I had at 12 years old (or any age, really) against someone who is literally 50% larger than me. With friends present. Not ALL bullies fall into the bullshit movie-of-the-week "if you stand your ground, he'll respect you and leave you alone" category. In fact, I've never met one like that in my life. All the bullies I've ever known were just fucked-up cliquish assholes who never let anyone into their club.
Typical scenario: bully comes up to you and decides to fuck with you. Option a: Act scared, get beat up. Option b: stand your ground, get beat up. I've seen it happen.
Yes, kids need confidence, but thinking that being meek in ANY way makes you deserving of ANY amount of bad treatment is so totally beyond belief I don't even know where to start.
What you're talking about applies to literally maybe 1/2 of 1% of bullies. Sure, bullies might be insecure assholes who need to make others feel bad in order for themselves to feel good, but they also usually have the size, the strength, and the friends (and, later in life, the political skills) to make your life miserable no matter what you do.
* Private college-prep high school, by the way. Just because some kid's parents have money and send him to a private school doesn't mean he's a great guy. My school was roughly evenly divided: half the kids were pretty bright and their parents wanted them to go somewhere "better" than a regular high school, and the other half were bright kids that maybe didn't work so hard, or average kids that the parents were hoping to make smarter, thanks to tougher classes and stronger discipline. That is to say, it wasn't just full of super-bright kids who chose to be there and never bullied each other. And the ones who were assholes on the first day were still assholes at graduation.
Joel Spolsky coined the term "Commoditize your complements" ten years ago. Steam, who sells software, wants consoles (or PCs acting as consoles) to be as cheap as possible, so as many people as possible can afford to have hardware that will run their games.
Every product in the marketplace has substitutes and complements. A substitute is another product you might buy if the first product is too expensive. Chicken is a substitute for beef. If you're a chicken farmer and the price of beef goes up, the people will want more chicken, and you will sell more.
A complement is a product that you usually buy together with another product. Gas and cars are complements. Computer hardware is a classic complement of computer operating systems...
All else being equal, demand for a product increases when the prices of its complements decrease... why don't the video chip vendors of the world try to commoditize the games, somehow? That' s a lot harder. If the game Halo is selling like crazy, it doesn't really have any substitutes. You're not going to go to the movie theatre to see Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and decide instead that you would be satisfied with a Woody Allen movie. They may both be great movies, but they're not perfect substitutes. Now: who would you rather be, a game publisher or a video chip vendor?
Now that the cheapest hardware out there is ridiculously capable, of course Steam wants you to throw a free OS on there and turn it into a Steam appliance. Which can also browse the web, play videos, send emails, make Skype calls, etc etc etc.
If wrongdoing is proven, Rapiscan could face fines, prison terms and a ban on government contracting, according to a former head of federal procurement.
Yeah, right. Thanks for the best laugh I've had all day.
Congratulations on your math+logic fail. Last I saw, Apple makes about 3/4 of the smartphone profits, Samsung makes most of the rest, HTC makes like 1%, and the rest lose money. BUT THESE ARE PERCENTAGES, and all but one of their competitors are not making ANY profit AT ALL. Apple could be making fifty cents per phone and still get 3/4 of the profits against these losers.
> I don't understand why companies and individuals with a "brand" > are so willing to put that brand behind Facebook's.
One. Seventh. Of. The. World's. Population.
> They should be using Facebook to drive people towards their > primary site, not use their primary site to drive people towards > a third party who doesn't really care about them,
The hosting is free and the audience is immense. Plus it has all the social stuff built-in, so one person can see your comic, and tell someone else, and they tell someone else...
> and that may disappear within the year (or whenever a new > website comes up).
Oh no! And then you'll dry up and blow away and you can never publish on the Internet again! Oh, wait, that's exactly not how it works. Just re-launch somewhere else. Even if FB declines, it won't be overnight. You'll have plenty of time to transition. And if they did literally disappear one day, millions of others would be in the same boat and would look for the next big thing. Once you see where everyone is going, you go there too.
You don't get attention by yelling in the middle of an empty field. You go where the people are. Facebook is where the people are.
We require that they take screenshots while working, and they submit the screenshots as a multi-page PDF.
Also, as everyone else is saying, don't distribute the final file. If the files come from a 3rd party (like lynda.com) then add a few more steps onto the tutorial.
... if the option is even halfway decent. In this case, start with Virtual Box. It runs, and runs inside, all major platforms. If you have a Linux ISO or Windows CD you can go from zero to a working VM in about 30 minutes. There's nearly no learning curve to get your first VM up and running, and IF it doesn't fit your needs, you can start looking to see if it has options that you aren't aware of, followed by looking at alternatives.
That said, VirtualBox has fit my needs (mainly testing) just fine for years. VM software is like word processors: they're all pretty comparable and 90% of people's needs can be met by any one of them.
I'm talking about your actual day-to-day life. Your local government (state and down) handles sales tax, property tax, how roads get fixed, how money gets spent in your kids' schools, if you get red light cameras in your area, how much money police and fire departments get, etc etc etc. I might have left off an "in general" or "for the most part" in my original post.
A teacher (junior high, I think) told me years ago that who your mayor is will have a bigger impact on your life than who your president is. So if anything, read the local stuff and don't worry about the presidential race.
BTW: Central Florida suburb, voting was at a retirement home, two people in line in front of me. I spent longer walking to and from my car (I parked in the front, not knowing the voting was in the back) than voting. Around 10am. Used the electronic machine because the trees I save in my lifetime will probably have a bigger impact on the world than who wins any particular race. Look, the whole system is a black box. Paper votes can get lost, mishandled, or ignored just as easily as a voting machine can get hacked.
I can give $20 worth of ingredients to my neighbor (he's a chef) and the same to my kid, but you'd be a fool to think that you'll get two meals of comparable value from them.
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We don't know what actually happened. As much as Apple wanted to get away from Google for whatever reasons, they want to make good products even more. Maybe he was fired because he told Tim that his maps would be as good as Google's, which led to Tim dropping Google, and when he didn't deliver good maps, that's what caused the firing. Maybe Tim would have been willing to live with Google a little longer if he thought it was necessary, but he was led to believe it wasn't.
Tell the boss you can deliver, then deliver: good.
Tell the boss you can deliver, then don't: bad. Especially if the boss is making other big decisions based on your promise.
So maybe he wasn't fired because Maps was bad per se, but because he didn't do his job well. A subtle but important distinction. Or maybe he wasn't that great in general, and Maps was the last straw. We just don't know. Unlike the last two guys who got sacked, Mr. Map wasn't well-known at all.
And to answer your original question: it's a general rule of the universe that if you're going to replace something, it had better be pretty comparable to what it's replacing. Yes, Google has been doing this for a long time, but "what it takes to make a good map app" is very much a known quantity by now so it should be relatively easy to replicate -- or at least hold your product up in comparison to see if it's as good.
Besides the well-known hilarity of the new Maps, I hate that they got rid of the red/yellow/green indicators for traffic. I'd roll back to iOS 5 for that reason alone* if I could. Plus there are many other details that aren't as good as on the old Maps, and the improvements don't come close to compensating for them.
PS: thanks for being French. "Escape goat" is awesome. :-)
* Also, since upgrading to iOS 6 and then 6.0.1, my iPhone 4S gets literally half the battery life it did under iOS 5. Hoping a future point update fixes this...
> What tablets did you test it with, besides iPad?
A: None.
PS: We didn't test on the iPad, either. :D
Sincerely. Even though I still use this system that I banged together a few years ago (more info here), the new mbeta page looks really nice.
The first known instance of unboxing porn. :-)
That "massive leg-up" had roughly zero positive impact on PlayBook sales.
And/or Google Earth. My little guy loves both, even more now that both have 3D stuff. Entertaining and educational on many levels. At the most basic, it's just plain fun to spin and push things around.
Yeah, because you really can't appreciate the subtle nuances of "Sink the Pink" unless you hear it after "Danger" as originally intended in 1985. Or, um, after "D.T." in 1986. Right. Anyway...
I love their music, but seriously, he's full of shit.
... she had to because Twitter are becoming complete assholes and the only decent Metro Twitter app no longer works because it hit its limit.
> For the record, the shut down button is now in
> the Settings panel for some unknown reason.
Technically, whether the computer is on or not is, in fact, a setting.
Now that I think of it, pretty much everything you do on a computer is a "setting." They should just jam the whole OS under that icon.
Sadly, they're busy killing Media Center, too. Even more sadly, Apple gave up on Front Row.
Holy fucking shit, how did you get a single positive mod, let alone 2 or more?
How was I, weighing 95 pounds my first day of high school*, supposed to react when the fat tub of shit asshole in my gym class decided to tackle me INDOORS onto the hard gym floor for no reason and knock the wind out of me? Fuck you and fuck him.
What if I come to your house with a gun, and you're unarmed? If you act afraid, does that make it OK? And what if you stand your ground and I STILL shoot you? How would you like that?
Tell me exactly what defensive options I had at 12 years old (or any age, really) against someone who is literally 50% larger than me. With friends present. Not ALL bullies fall into the bullshit movie-of-the-week "if you stand your ground, he'll respect you and leave you alone" category. In fact, I've never met one like that in my life. All the bullies I've ever known were just fucked-up cliquish assholes who never let anyone into their club.
Typical scenario: bully comes up to you and decides to fuck with you. Option a: Act scared, get beat up. Option b: stand your ground, get beat up. I've seen it happen.
Yes, kids need confidence, but thinking that being meek in ANY way makes you deserving of ANY amount of bad treatment is so totally beyond belief I don't even know where to start.
What you're talking about applies to literally maybe 1/2 of 1% of bullies. Sure, bullies might be insecure assholes who need to make others feel bad in order for themselves to feel good, but they also usually have the size, the strength, and the friends (and, later in life, the political skills) to make your life miserable no matter what you do.
* Private college-prep high school, by the way. Just because some kid's parents have money and send him to a private school doesn't mean he's a great guy. My school was roughly evenly divided: half the kids were pretty bright and their parents wanted them to go somewhere "better" than a regular high school, and the other half were bright kids that maybe didn't work so hard, or average kids that the parents were hoping to make smarter, thanks to tougher classes and stronger discipline. That is to say, it wasn't just full of super-bright kids who chose to be there and never bullied each other. And the ones who were assholes on the first day were still assholes at graduation.
Joel Spolsky coined the term "Commoditize your complements" ten years ago. Steam, who sells software, wants consoles (or PCs acting as consoles) to be as cheap as possible, so as many people as possible can afford to have hardware that will run their games.
Every product in the marketplace has substitutes and complements. A substitute is another product you might buy if the first product is too expensive. Chicken is a substitute for beef. If you're a chicken farmer and the price of beef goes up, the people will want more chicken, and you will sell more.
A complement is a product that you usually buy together with another product. Gas and cars are complements. Computer hardware is a classic complement of computer operating systems...
All else being equal, demand for a product increases when the prices of its complements decrease... why don't the video chip vendors of the world try to commoditize the games, somehow? That' s a lot harder. If the game Halo is selling like crazy, it doesn't really have any substitutes. You're not going to go to the movie theatre to see Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and decide instead that you would be satisfied with a Woody Allen movie. They may both be great movies, but they're not perfect substitutes. Now: who would you rather be, a game publisher or a video chip vendor?
Now that the cheapest hardware out there is ridiculously capable, of course Steam wants you to throw a free OS on there and turn it into a Steam appliance. Which can also browse the web, play videos, send emails, make Skype calls, etc etc etc.
Now all you need to do is follow up on your "swift updates for all devices" promise from 18 months ago and we'll be all set!
If wrongdoing is proven, Rapiscan could face fines, prison terms and a ban on government contracting, according to a former head of federal procurement.
Yeah, right. Thanks for the best laugh I've had all day.
Now, time for a good cry.
Congratulations on your math+logic fail. Last I saw, Apple makes about 3/4 of the smartphone profits, Samsung makes most of the rest, HTC makes like 1%, and the rest lose money. BUT THESE ARE PERCENTAGES, and all but one of their competitors are not making ANY profit AT ALL. Apple could be making fifty cents per phone and still get 3/4 of the profits against these losers.
> I don't understand why companies and individuals with a "brand"
> are so willing to put that brand behind Facebook's.
One. Seventh. Of. The. World's. Population.
> They should be using Facebook to drive people towards their
> primary site, not use their primary site to drive people towards
> a third party who doesn't really care about them,
The hosting is free and the audience is immense. Plus it has all the social stuff built-in, so one person can see your comic, and tell someone else, and they tell someone else...
> and that may disappear within the year (or whenever a new
> website comes up).
Oh no! And then you'll dry up and blow away and you can never publish on the Internet again! Oh, wait, that's exactly not how it works. Just re-launch somewhere else. Even if FB declines, it won't be overnight. You'll have plenty of time to transition. And if they did literally disappear one day, millions of others would be in the same boat and would look for the next big thing. Once you see where everyone is going, you go there too.
You don't get attention by yelling in the middle of an empty field. You go where the people are. Facebook is where the people are.
We require that they take screenshots while working, and they submit the screenshots as a multi-page PDF.
Also, as everyone else is saying, don't distribute the final file. If the files come from a 3rd party (like lynda.com) then add a few more steps onto the tutorial.
... if the option is even halfway decent. In this case, start with Virtual Box. It runs, and runs inside, all major platforms. If you have a Linux ISO or Windows CD you can go from zero to a working VM in about 30 minutes. There's nearly no learning curve to get your first VM up and running, and IF it doesn't fit your needs, you can start looking to see if it has options that you aren't aware of, followed by looking at alternatives.
That said, VirtualBox has fit my needs (mainly testing) just fine for years. VM software is like word processors: they're all pretty comparable and 90% of people's needs can be met by any one of them.
"Patent System Not Broken, Argues IBM's Chief Patent Counsel"
"Moore's Law Is Becoming Irrelevant, Says ARM's Boss"
Can we have a checkbox to hide "Corporate head makes self-serving statement" stories? They're depressing as hell.
> All women and most Christians have an interest in abortion.
My favorite old saying: "If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."
Fun (if you're into that sort of thing) discussion of the early days of MIPS at the Computer History Museum in 2011. http://www.computerhistory.org/events/video/?videoid=3paiCK3dlK0
I'm talking about your actual day-to-day life. Your local government (state and down) handles sales tax, property tax, how roads get fixed, how money gets spent in your kids' schools, if you get red light cameras in your area, how much money police and fire departments get, etc etc etc. I might have left off an "in general" or "for the most part" in my original post.
A teacher (junior high, I think) told me years ago that who your mayor is will have a bigger impact on your life than who your president is. So if anything, read the local stuff and don't worry about the presidential race.
BTW: Central Florida suburb, voting was at a retirement home, two people in line in front of me. I spent longer walking to and from my car (I parked in the front, not knowing the voting was in the back) than voting. Around 10am. Used the electronic machine because the trees I save in my lifetime will probably have a bigger impact on the world than who wins any particular race. Look, the whole system is a black box. Paper votes can get lost, mishandled, or ignored just as easily as a voting machine can get hacked.
http://www.sptimes.com/2004/11/16/Tampabay/Pinellas_ballot_box_s.shtml
I can give $20 worth of ingredients to my neighbor (he's a chef) and the same to my kid, but you'd be a fool to think that you'll get two meals of comparable value from them.
So there is a 16GB Surface! :-)