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To: circlecity
I think Apple sees the driverless car as the wave of the future and they want to get in on the ground floor. With their electronic, computer and GPS expertise and foundation they probably believe they are particularly situated to take advantage of this.

 

Oh, that's hilarious. One of the (many) reasons I bought an android smart phone over an i-phone was the GPS. Apple maps and GPS sucked so bad, Apple eventually quit them and defaulted back to Google Maps.

10 posted on 02/17/2015 7:22:12 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (See Ya On The Road; Al Baby's Mom!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I own Apple stock but agree totally on your statement. My phone is android.


13 posted on 02/17/2015 7:27:35 AM PST by Williams
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To: Responsibility2nd

My iPad doesn’t default to Google Maps. I avoid Google Maps. My iPad goes to Apple Maps and I haven’t had any problems with it.

I’m not sure where you get that idea ...


25 posted on 02/17/2015 8:04:41 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Oh, that's hilarious. One of the (many) reasons I bought an android smart phone over an i-phone was the GPS. Apple maps and GPS sucked so bad, Apple eventually quit them and defaulted back to Google Maps.

That's false. Apple Maps is still the default in iOS with Google Maps a downloadable option. Apple Maps is quite functional and accurate, and offers functions that Google Map doesn't, such as a working fly over, which they are trying to copy. I use Apple Maps at least one a week and it works great.

Just before Apple Maps came out, Google Maps sent my girlfriend and me down a road—unnecessarily off the beaten track, on the way from Sacramento to to San Andreas—which had potholes slightly larger than your average Volkswagen. That road damaged my car because the potholes were so bad and the angle of the sun made them impossible to see until you hit them. I wound up with a $1400 front end repair bill! from hitting one of the potholes on that road that Google Maps showed as a good paved road. It actually is a dead end, unpaved road, . . and did not connect where it Google Maps claimed it did. After I got Apple Maps, I put the same destination in it, and it plotted a route that was two mile shorter, NOT including that road. . . and showed that road correctly as being a dead-end, non-maintained road.

53 posted on 02/17/2015 1:33:45 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Oh, that's hilarious.

And you're probably kicking yourself in the ass for not buying stock when they first went public in 1980..

What can we call that? How about "Denier's Remorse"............LOL!

61 posted on 02/17/2015 2:00:03 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Uncle Sy: "Beavers are like Ninjas, they only come out at night and they're hard to find")
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