That's just delusional. I know that you're trying to be the new Bonch, but there's no way that you're *that* irrational.
Your whole post reminds me of the "It's awesome that iOS can't multitask!" comments from a few years ago -- now it's "It's awesome that multitasking on iOS is second-rate! It makes our awesome piss-poor security less noticeable!"
i.e. Apple has more finesse on their multitasking, not less.
More than what? Besides, what difference does it make if neither developers nor end users can take advantage of it in any meaningful way?
What extra security do you imagine RIM has that iOS doesn't?
Really? LOL! You need to do some reading! Besides, a walled garden is a band-aid. RIM has a proper security model, and thus doesn't need a walled garden.
Yes, Apple is standing still. Their OS is long outdated. Their UI design wasn't forward-thinking, leaving the current suite of gestures an abominable mess. Notifications have improved, but still haven't caught up to Android, let alone BBOS. Multitasking is so far behind everyone else it's pitiful -- it's still not up to the level of BBOS 5!
iOS is way behind the curve and it doesn't look like Apple can catch up without a major change. They haven't been keeping up -- they've been standing still.
Take a look at new mobile operating systems from Microsoft and RIM and you'll see what I mean. It's pitiful how poorly iOS has evolved over the past few years. If anyone else released a product like iOS6 we'd all be laughing at it -- it's a bad joke.
How can you say Apple has been standing still when developers still have to target Android 2.3?
This doesn't make any sense. The version of Android that Android developers are targeting has absolutely nothing to do with Apple and iOS.
No, it doesn't. Why? Because it's too damn easy to lie about "experience".
Watch this: "I used Apple's new maps to take a 48 state tour and I barely survived! I had to fall back to paper maps and road signs so often that I might as well have not had a GPS at all."
This isn't rocket science.
BTW, Apple didn't apologize because their app wasn't perfect -- they apologized because it was total garbage. That's why they recommend alternative mapping apps; their app is practically useless.
That s 100% true, but in my experience only Apple Haters claim that by way of trying to claim that Apple is dying now because it is not perfect like it was in the past.
I'm an Apple Hater (apparently) and I've always seen Apple products as deeply flawed in various technical and ideological ways.
One this is true: Apple is dying. Well, in the "RIM is dying" sense -- you know, still growing but sitting idle in a changing market.
Fun fact: RIM was still the undisputed market leader until 2011, years after they were declared 'dead' by Slashdot. They're still doing amazingly well. They grew their customer base by another 2 million in their last reported quarter (the earlier/. article that claimed they lost users was bullshit). Not bad for going a year without a major new handset release, and their fan-base waiting for BB10 to upgrade.
Apple is where RIM was in 2008. Pushing out minor improvements to their product line year after year while ignoring the changes in the market. They've got the momentum and the cash to keep going for years, but they're just a walking corpse. You can't play market leader with an outdated OS on yesterdays hardware forever. Just ask RIM.
All three of your inventors built on existing technology.
Babbage didn't invent the cam/ratchet/gear/etc., the logic behind the operations either the difference engine or the analytical engine, nor did he conceive the concept of a mechanical computing device.
Whitney didn't invent the concept of interchangeable parts nor invented all or even a majority of the constituent components of the cotton gin -- even the main unit that separates the cotton from the seeds is alleged to have been inspired by an overly ambitious cat.
Pick anything from Franklin and I'll tell you why he didn't invent it completely on his own.
Longer term Apple will be able to use a large number of people to rapidly improve map quality.
This assumes that Google won't continue to improve their maps, or will be unable to improve their maps at the same rate as Apple.
That's just crazy. There are more Android users than iOS users and Google already has a massive lead in mapping.
and third party transit apps are integrated into Apple maps in a way that Google is unlikely to follow
Apple has a bad track record when it comes to third-party integration. They tend to get more insular and less open as they go along. Do they even have an API for that yet? What third-party apps integrate with Apple maps?
Stop and think about WHY for just a moment. While I'm no fan of XML, it doesn't take a genius to puzzle out why XML has kept MathML and SVG out of mainstream use.
All the other problems with SVG aside, using vector images only partially solves one problem with scaling. It won't help you at all when the aspect ratio changes.
Being XML is one of the reasons that SVG hasn't really taken off. XML killed MathML as well. That you can't use it like other image types is also a major problem. I'd go on and on about it, but it's not important enough to me to spend the time. Just google SVG criticism or something.
I'd love to use vector images, but SVG is just a huge pile of mistakes. Had the W3C kept it simple, not XML, individual elements out of the dom, and ditched scripting, we'd see it used everywhere.
Nonsense. There were other phones with >300ppi prior to the iPhone 4 such as the Samsung S8000 (2009) and the Sharp SX862 (2008).
They just didn't give it marketable name like "retina display", probably because the term is virtually meaningless.
(Quoting Steve Jobs on what "retina" means: "It turns out that there is a magic number right around 300 pixels per inch that, when you hold something around 10 or 12 inches away from your eyes, is the limit of the human retina['s ability] to differentiate the pixels"Ref)
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More than other mobile OSs.
That's just delusional. I know that you're trying to be the new Bonch, but there's no way that you're *that* irrational.
Your whole post reminds me of the "It's awesome that iOS can't multitask!" comments from a few years ago -- now it's "It's awesome that multitasking on iOS is second-rate! It makes our awesome piss-poor security less noticeable!"
i.e. Apple has more finesse on their multitasking, not less.
More than what? Besides, what difference does it make if neither developers nor end users can take advantage of it in any meaningful way?
What extra security do you imagine RIM has that iOS doesn't?
Really? LOL! You need to do some reading! Besides, a walled garden is a band-aid. RIM has a proper security model, and thus doesn't need a walled garden.
That's a new one. The pitiful multitasking support in iOS is an awesome malware-prevention feature!
What mobile operating systems need is a proper security model, you know, like RIM has had for years. Great security, no walled-garden, no compromises.
Think about your breathing.
In the main they're coming from Fandroids like yourself that have never used Apple Maps.
I neither use nor care for Android.
You really are a deluded individual. Sent mad by your worship of your smartphone choice.
What's it like living in your imaginary world? You know, with all of those projectors...
I say I find it better than the pre-iOS 6 Google Maps version
Congratulations! You're in a tiny minority!
I'll take accuracy over smooth scrolling any day. Scrolling and zooming is the least most important feature of a mapping app after all.
However there are a number of other people posting the same thing. The fact is you are ignoring not just me but all the rest of them.
And you're ignoring the even larger number of people posting about the terrible experience and many problems that they're having.
Eventually you have to realize that truth is the truth.
Even Apple's CEO recognized that their new mapping app is a massive failure.
You shouldn't let brand loyalty define your personal identity.
Yes, Apple is standing still. Their OS is long outdated. Their UI design wasn't forward-thinking, leaving the current suite of gestures an abominable mess. Notifications have improved, but still haven't caught up to Android, let alone BBOS. Multitasking is so far behind everyone else it's pitiful -- it's still not up to the level of BBOS 5!
iOS is way behind the curve and it doesn't look like Apple can catch up without a major change. They haven't been keeping up -- they've been standing still.
Take a look at new mobile operating systems from Microsoft and RIM and you'll see what I mean. It's pitiful how poorly iOS has evolved over the past few years. If anyone else released a product like iOS6 we'd all be laughing at it -- it's a bad joke.
How can you say Apple has been standing still when developers still have to target Android 2.3?
This doesn't make any sense. The version of Android that Android developers are targeting has absolutely nothing to do with Apple and iOS.
No, it doesn't. Why? Because it's too damn easy to lie about "experience".
Watch this: "I used Apple's new maps to take a 48 state tour and I barely survived! I had to fall back to paper maps and road signs so often that I might as well have not had a GPS at all."
This isn't rocket science.
BTW, Apple didn't apologize because their app wasn't perfect -- they apologized because it was total garbage. That's why they recommend alternative mapping apps; their app is practically useless.
That s 100% true, but in my experience only Apple Haters claim that by way of trying to claim that Apple is dying now because it is not perfect like it was in the past.
I'm an Apple Hater (apparently) and I've always seen Apple products as deeply flawed in various technical and ideological ways.
One this is true: Apple is dying. Well, in the "RIM is dying" sense -- you know, still growing but sitting idle in a changing market.
Fun fact: RIM was still the undisputed market leader until 2011, years after they were declared 'dead' by Slashdot. They're still doing amazingly well. They grew their customer base by another 2 million in their last reported quarter (the earlier /. article that claimed they lost users was bullshit). Not bad for going a year without a major new handset release, and their fan-base waiting for BB10 to upgrade.
Apple is where RIM was in 2008. Pushing out minor improvements to their product line year after year while ignoring the changes in the market. They've got the momentum and the cash to keep going for years, but they're just a walking corpse. You can't play market leader with an outdated OS on yesterdays hardware forever. Just ask RIM.
You could have installed the Google Maps app for BlackBerry -- even if they had issued you an antique OS4 phone.
Really? The CEO says they screwed the pooch, apologizes, and recommends alternatives and you're still defending their app?
It's like you're saying that "Apple is way better than they think they are" -- as though the company was a kid with low self-esteem.
Bring it down. Even Bonch would have just let this one go...
True enough, but that misses the point: they built on the work of others.
All three of your inventors built on existing technology.
Babbage didn't invent the cam/ratchet/gear/etc., the logic behind the operations either the difference engine or the analytical engine, nor did he conceive the concept of a mechanical computing device.
Whitney didn't invent the concept of interchangeable parts nor invented all or even a majority of the constituent components of the cotton gin -- even the main unit that separates the cotton from the seeds is alleged to have been inspired by an overly ambitious cat.
Pick anything from Franklin and I'll tell you why he didn't invent it completely on his own.
Longer term Apple will be able to use a large number of people to rapidly improve map quality.
This assumes that Google won't continue to improve their maps, or will be unable to improve their maps at the same rate as Apple.
That's just crazy. There are more Android users than iOS users and Google already has a massive lead in mapping.
and third party transit apps are integrated into Apple maps in a way that Google is unlikely to follow
Apple has a bad track record when it comes to third-party integration. They tend to get more insular and less open as they go along. Do they even have an API for that yet? What third-party apps integrate with Apple maps?
Indeed. Forced implies they had no choice -- which is just crazy.
Apple: "We want more!"
Google: "Sure, can you make one of these concessions in exchange?"
Apple: "No. We want it for nothing."
Goolge: "That's not what 'renegotiate' generally mea...."
Apple: "You're forcing us to drop your app!"
Stop and think about WHY for just a moment. While I'm no fan of XML, it doesn't take a genius to puzzle out why XML has kept MathML and SVG out of mainstream use.
You can do it. It's really easy.
And that makes the ppi lower somehow?
Was it possibly earlier? IIRC, Windows GDI was all about device independent scaling since at least Windows 3.1. If I'm missing something, let me know.
All the other problems with SVG aside, using vector images only partially solves one problem with scaling. It won't help you at all when the aspect ratio changes.
Being XML is one of the reasons that SVG hasn't really taken off. XML killed MathML as well. That you can't use it like other image types is also a major problem. I'd go on and on about it, but it's not important enough to me to spend the time. Just google SVG criticism or something.
I'd love to use vector images, but SVG is just a huge pile of mistakes. Had the W3C kept it simple, not XML, individual elements out of the dom, and ditched scripting, we'd see it used everywhere.
Nonsense. There were other phones with >300ppi prior to the iPhone 4 such as the Samsung S8000 (2009) and the Sharp SX862 (2008).
They just didn't give it marketable name like "retina display", probably because the term is virtually meaningless.
(Quoting Steve Jobs on what "retina" means: "It turns out that there is a magic number right around 300 pixels per inch that, when you hold something around 10 or 12 inches away from your eyes, is the limit of the human retina['s ability] to differentiate the pixels" Ref)
(yes, 25, not 24)
Them's fightin' words.
(Ignoring for the moment that you're 100% correct, everyone coded to 80x24 anyway.)
What we need is a better standard than SVG for static vector images. Well, and significantly improved tools for producing them.
If it's PPI you're after, the iPhone 4/4s/5 isn't your best bet. If you're an Android user, you've got plenty of great displays to choose from.