iDevices prohibit restoring to an older version of the OS. There are "ways" to revert to an older version, but backup/restore isn't among them. In fact, backups do not contain the OS anyway so that wouldn't work.
Apple credits OpenStreetMaps and Waze for their map and traffic data, so I'd just exclude those two right now. They also credit Yelp for business listings, so exclude that too.
Especially when you consider that Google was willing to allow Turn-by-Turn at all, which is something that is outright forbidden in the Google Maps API license, so Apple being allowed to use it would actually result in them being the only provider apart from Google itself allowed to do this.
Read the credits - the actual mapping data is provided by a metric crapton of data providers, but most notably OpenStreetMaps. TomTom to the best of my knowledge provides only the routing functionality, not the maps.
Those aren't alternative mapping companies - those are all end users of Nokia's (Navteq) data. Going to Nokia would have been a vast improvement - though Nokia also produces competing products. Hmm. Conundrum.
I guess I'm fortunate then that in my city the first app developer to release an Apple Maps integrated routing application was the transit authority itself - so I've seen how that integration works.
It's fucking shit. You type in a route, hit the transit tab, then tap "Route" in the list of installed routing apps (above the app store spamvertisement) then what it does is it launches the transit routing application, which has to be coded to go to it's own route search screen, and then you have to hit that application's routing button again. Worst integration ever, and not what one would expect from Apple's much vaunted anal-retentive user experience fanatics.
I don't think they're lying at all - the point is valid, though they've moved the context in order to make it valid. Google Maps is free to use inside other applications (with some limitations), and while Apple Maps is also free to use inside other applications, if Apple doesn't like your application then it will never be released - because it's only usable on iDevices, where your application needs to be vetted by them.
They're not talking about map apps, they're talking about map data.
Apple's new POI database is most definitely not better. The POIs are incorrect in a very high percentage of cases, and they are missing critically important landmarks such as hospitals. It is most definitely the worst POI database every conceived.
"Address book integration" means "from the app, you can select a contact to navigate to", not "from the Contacts app, I can get xx app to navigate to the contact". It's not integration at all.
Siri doesn't open any maps for me. It gives me the polite equivalent of "go fuck yourself - I don't support no stinking other countries!" (What it actually says is "I can't give directions in New Zealand" because Apple couldn't be fucked supporting more than two countries). The maps app also can't get a single address right - it's moved my house across the road and 50 metres down, just for a start. The train station got moved into the harbour.
Find an example of a real Apple Maps problem that affects more than a handful of people...
And of course that's what they are being chastised for, and rightly so.
Fine. Apple Maps is missing every single hospital in the central metropolitan region of New Zealand's largest city. HOSPITALS. That's an inexcusable mistake for a mapping provider.
Unfortunately, diplomatic immunity would apply so we couldn't arrest your representatives (and vice-versa).
We could always found a Royal Commission of Inquiry? That would probably be a bad idea though, since all they ever tend to do is recommend shit which violates established law (the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Auckland, which resulted in an illegal local authority merger by some right wing cock trying to hand the city to his business mates).
We don't have Attorney Generals, or an equivalent, so that's out. And the highest authority in the land, the Governor General, is... former director of the Government Communications Security Bureau. Uh oh.
The US GOVERNMENT shut down his business and disrupted those users, idiot. The New Zealand government arrested two people - which impacts on just those two people. The Hong Kong government seized all his business assets.
How the fuck is this shit insightful?
Also, you can't sue our government without their permission - sovereign fucking immunity.
I've read the law, which makes me more qualified to answer than you.
Neither the Director, nor an employee of the Bureau, nor a person acting on behalf of the Bureau may authorise or take any action for the purpose of intercepting the communications of a person (not being a foreign organisation or a foreign person) who is a New Zealand citizen or a permanent resident.
Your assertion is incorrect. The law is perfectly clear on this - intercepting domestic communications is perfectly legal, provided that neither party is a citizen or permanent resident.
Um, his business was destroyed by the US and Hong Kong governments thanks very much. The NZ government only got his personal assets which, while bad, did not destroy his business. His business was destroyed by the US government seizing the servers, and the HK government seizing the company itself.
Aint that the truth. The IRD (our tax department) has used that particular pearler a couple of times to hit taxpayers with millions of dollars in back taxes and penalties for doing things which by the letter of the law are perfectly legal. Often several years after the record keeping statute on the alleged offence expires. And their justification is "that's not what parliament meant!"
Document formats have precisely nothing to do with Visual Basic versions. Zero. If you're referring to reading and writing office formats by applications written in Visual Basic, they don't have any built in support for that at all - it's all third party code.
I'm pretty sure Microsoft would have been quite happy to pay what they promised to pay - instead the municipality is trying to charge them three times the estimate (seriously - the consequence for overestimating power usage by $70,000 was $210,000. That is unjustifiable)
But that was the agreement that Microsoft made.
I don't care. That's not what you said. You said Microsoft could have met the contractual obligation by paying what it promised to pay, but what you actually seem to now be claiming is that they should have paid three times what they promised to pay, and I'd bet it was a Red Hat or Google or suchlike data center, you'd be claiming the exact opposite.
Besides, I very much doubt you'd tolerate your power company shovelling this crap on you - especially since it doesn't form part of the contract.
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What's the point? It's just Safari in drag with a slower Javascript runtime.
iDevices prohibit restoring to an older version of the OS. There are "ways" to revert to an older version, but backup/restore isn't among them. In fact, backups do not contain the OS anyway so that wouldn't work.
Apple credits OpenStreetMaps and Waze for their map and traffic data, so I'd just exclude those two right now. They also credit Yelp for business listings, so exclude that too.
StackOverflow to the rescue! This is covered here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12523888/how-can-i-add-older-version-of-ios-sdk-in-xcode-4-5.
You can download older versions of Xcode so you can get that SDK by visiting Apple Developer Downloads.
Especially when you consider that Google was willing to allow Turn-by-Turn at all, which is something that is outright forbidden in the Google Maps API license, so Apple being allowed to use it would actually result in them being the only provider apart from Google itself allowed to do this.
Read the credits - the actual mapping data is provided by a metric crapton of data providers, but most notably OpenStreetMaps. TomTom to the best of my knowledge provides only the routing functionality, not the maps.
Those aren't alternative mapping companies - those are all end users of Nokia's (Navteq) data. Going to Nokia would have been a vast improvement - though Nokia also produces competing products. Hmm. Conundrum.
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I guess I'm fortunate then that in my city the first app developer to release an Apple Maps integrated routing application was the transit authority itself - so I've seen how that integration works.
It's fucking shit. You type in a route, hit the transit tab, then tap "Route" in the list of installed routing apps (above the app store spamvertisement) then what it does is it launches the transit routing application, which has to be coded to go to it's own route search screen, and then you have to hit that application's routing button again. Worst integration ever, and not what one would expect from Apple's much vaunted anal-retentive user experience fanatics.
I don't think they're lying at all - the point is valid, though they've moved the context in order to make it valid. Google Maps is free to use inside other applications (with some limitations), and while Apple Maps is also free to use inside other applications, if Apple doesn't like your application then it will never be released - because it's only usable on iDevices, where your application needs to be vetted by them.
They're not talking about map apps, they're talking about map data.
Apple's new POI database is most definitely not better. The POIs are incorrect in a very high percentage of cases, and they are missing critically important landmarks such as hospitals. It is most definitely the worst POI database every conceived.
Web apps can actually use the GPS, but not the compass.
"Address book integration" means "from the app, you can select a contact to navigate to", not "from the Contacts app, I can get xx app to navigate to the contact". It's not integration at all.
Siri doesn't open any maps for me. It gives me the polite equivalent of "go fuck yourself - I don't support no stinking other countries!" (What it actually says is "I can't give directions in New Zealand" because Apple couldn't be fucked supporting more than two countries). The maps app also can't get a single address right - it's moved my house across the road and 50 metres down, just for a start. The train station got moved into the harbour.
Find an example of a real Apple Maps problem that affects more than a handful of people...
And of course that's what they are being chastised for, and rightly so.
Fine. Apple Maps is missing every single hospital in the central metropolitan region of New Zealand's largest city. HOSPITALS. That's an inexcusable mistake for a mapping provider.
Unfortunately, diplomatic immunity would apply so we couldn't arrest your representatives (and vice-versa).
We could always found a Royal Commission of Inquiry? That would probably be a bad idea though, since all they ever tend to do is recommend shit which violates established law (the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Auckland, which resulted in an illegal local authority merger by some right wing cock trying to hand the city to his business mates).
We don't have Attorney Generals, or an equivalent, so that's out. And the highest authority in the land, the Governor General, is... former director of the Government Communications Security Bureau. Uh oh.
The US GOVERNMENT shut down his business and disrupted those users, idiot. The New Zealand government arrested two people - which impacts on just those two people. The Hong Kong government seized all his business assets.
How the fuck is this shit insightful?
Also, you can't sue our government without their permission - sovereign fucking immunity.
I've read the law, which makes me more qualified to answer than you.
Neither the Director, nor an employee of the Bureau, nor a person acting on behalf of the Bureau may authorise or take any action for the purpose of intercepting the communications of a person (not being a foreign organisation or a foreign person) who is a New Zealand citizen or a permanent resident.
Your assertion is incorrect. The law is perfectly clear on this - intercepting domestic communications is perfectly legal, provided that neither party is a citizen or permanent resident.
Like fuck. I voted against the cunt.
Need I point out that in NZ, where Kim Dotcom lives, prostitution is both legal and taxed?
Um, his business was destroyed by the US and Hong Kong governments thanks very much. The NZ government only got his personal assets which, while bad, did not destroy his business. His business was destroyed by the US government seizing the servers, and the HK government seizing the company itself.
Aint that the truth. The IRD (our tax department) has used that particular pearler a couple of times to hit taxpayers with millions of dollars in back taxes and penalties for doing things which by the letter of the law are perfectly legal. Often several years after the record keeping statute on the alleged offence expires. And their justification is "that's not what parliament meant!"
No, the US should. This whole fuckup is because they went on a global witch hunt enlisting no less than five governments to take this guy down.
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What?
Document formats have precisely nothing to do with Visual Basic versions. Zero. If you're referring to reading and writing office formats by applications written in Visual Basic, they don't have any built in support for that at all - it's all third party code.
But that was the agreement that Microsoft made.
I don't care. That's not what you said. You said Microsoft could have met the contractual obligation by paying what it promised to pay, but what you actually seem to now be claiming is that they should have paid three times what they promised to pay, and I'd bet it was a Red Hat or Google or suchlike data center, you'd be claiming the exact opposite.
Besides, I very much doubt you'd tolerate your power company shovelling this crap on you - especially since it doesn't form part of the contract.