Apple Begins Surveying Spain With Mapping Vehicles

[Lloydbm41]

I agree with your surprising admission that you are attempting to distort reality. The reality is that Apple Maps is being used many billions of times a week, and given a choice, Apple users have been choosing it in ever greater numbers to the point where it is used exponentially more than Google Maps. That reality is out there, regardless how much it hurts your feelings.

Steve Jobs would blush at your effort to dismiss that by suggesting that it is merely people opening the App for a second and then closing it. Yes, you gave us all a chuckle to suggest that iPhone users have some sort of nervous tic that causes them to open and close an app billions of times a week.

But you caused a massive SMH on the forums when you had to resort to making up other desperately silly things like the billions of uses a week can be explained away as "downloading Apple Maps" counts as a use. Of course downloads are a different metric than use, but aside from that fact, when you were sitting at your computer making things up, your frustration with the truth must have been so complete that you didn't stop to consider that Apple Maps is pre-loaded on devices and doesn't need to

Wow! You really are a true Apple fanatic.

Facts be damned, if it's got an Apple logo you'll blindly follow it over a cliff.
Talking to people like you is like talking to cult followers. No reasoning, no actual thought process in the discussion... just pure fanatical nonsense.

I have muted you.

 

[fat jez]

LiDAR is great, but it is not the sensor that is capturing imagery as the original news article suggests, it captures a point cloud (vector data). Used this way I can see a few possibilities. It may be related to their autonomous vehicle technology but more likely it's related to 3D mapping. With the point cloud they should be able to better place building textures when rendering a 3D map.

I submit the idea that they are building not just street view, but a true 3D rendering of the street you are driving down.

That would make perfect sense. A huge amount of data, but an incredibly accurate 3d map would put them ahead of Google, in my opinion.

 

[Zirel]

But flyover is no substitute for street view and never will be. In fact, flyover is pretty much a useless feature.

No it isn't, but when Apple starts releasing the street-level functionality 3D, Google's Street View won't be a match for a real 3D environment.

I wonder what the response from the typical Apple hatters here will be...

 

[Lloydbm41]

No it isn't, but when Apple starts releasing the street-level functionality 3D, Google's Street View won't be a match for a real 3D environment.

I wonder what the response from the typical Apple hatters here will be...

If it's better, I'll use it on my iPhone. Until then, a hypothetical dream means nothing. Ever wonder if maybe Google is doing even more advanced research? Or do you think they are just going to sit and do nothing over the next 10 years?

 

[Zirel]

If it's better, I'll use it on my iPhone. Until then, a hypothetical dream means nothing. Ever wonder if maybe Google is doing even more advanced research? Or do you think they are just going to sit and do nothing over the next 10 years?

Yes, I think...

 

[truthertech]

Wow! You really are a true Apple fanatic.

Facts be damned, if it's got an Apple logo you'll blindly follow it over a cliff.
Talking to people like you is like talking to cult followers. No reasoning, no actual thought process in the discussion... just pure fanatical nonsense.

I have muted you.

For the forum, here's what pushed Lloyd over the edge. He couldn't deal with fact that Apple Maps is now used billions of times a week so he tried to dismiss it by claiming that those billions of uses could be explained away since "downloads count as a use." Of course we know that downloads and usage are very different, but aside from that, Lloyd evidently did not stop to think about the absurdity of claiming that Apple Maps was being downloaded billions of times every week, nor the slightly relevant fact that people don't need to download Apple Maps as it is preloaded. LOL.