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Apple Did Acquire 3D Mapping Company C3 Technologies

Piggie said:
This, like a touch screen interface, is the type of thing that no one company should ever be able to own and keep to itself as its potentially of benefit to anyone on the planet, and as such should not be withheld from access by others with different products.

Can you imagine for example if google maps, google street view and google earth had always been banned from running on any apple products and how wrong that would be for google to do
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wow... Do you ever not understand the difference between their business models.
Apple provides these services to drive sales of their hardware. Giving away tech that they paid enormous amounts to develop or purchase would be insane and irresponsible.
Google develops it in order to drive eyeballs to their ads. So of course they want it everywhere.
Spare us the 'for the benefit of all', tinkerbell nonsense. They deserve first mover benefit given by patents.

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Piggie said:
Why would you hate a company that had given you so much, effectively for free?

Google Earth, Google Maps and Google Street View.
Millions all around the globe have benefited from these things.

They are a saint when put up against Apple, who would have kept all these things only for itself if they had done them.
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They're not free.
And 'saint'? Oh my god. Are you ever gullible.
 
while it's not as accurate as what your saying I don't know if you heard that The Iphone 4s uses the very adavanced Russian GPS system called Glonass.

HiRez said:
That is some crazy s#*%!

One thing I wonder if we're going to see is localized location. What I mean is like GPS, but much more accurate, so you can tell where you and others are say inside a museum, or at a festival, or in a stadium at a game. I guess this would require the venue to place a bunch of receivers around the place which would talk to your phone somehow (Bluetooth, RFID, WiFi whatever). Then you could overlay a floor plan and see exactly where you are (imagine you're sitting in the upper deck somewhere: "Siri, find me the closest men's bathroom", or "Find me the Titanic exhibit room"). Using this type of technology, you could get very accurate local placement without interfering with (or relying on) the military-mandated degradation of the GPS signal, and you'd have better reception indoors than GPS provides.
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hot spare said:
All Android devices have 3D maps. Google Maps 5 is available for all Android phones. It's available in Market for anyone to download. It uses pre-caching of maps unlike the previous versions so you don't need continuous data access.

We will see how and what Apple does with NFC. As of now, Google beam is much ahead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrBRhm-wKFc

Don't forget the Google Wallet...
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So 3D Google Maps were available for my HTC Desire as well? :|

Also, Google has practically done nothing with NFC. They have taken exactly what the 2 year old app was doing on the iPhone and embedded it into the system.

BOOM! That's it.
 
This is another reason why Apple are so successful. Rather than waste millions on r and d, they buy a company and tailor fit it. The result is substantially shorter development times, less outlay and in increased profit. Just look at Siri, they bought the tech last year and it was ready in just over a year! They have a wonderful business model, and with so much cash in the bank they can acquire whatever they want at a whim.

One of the big things lacking in ios is a decent mapping system. The benchmark is Nokia maps, which is far and away the best integrated mapping system out there. I can see them building a solid subscription service out of this, bringing them yet more profit.

What an incredible company Steve Jobs built.
 
lilo777 said:
Eventually iOS will fall victim to Apple's vertical integration. It will have a lot of Apple applications which are inferior to their counterparts from the specialized providers (like MS Office, Adobe PS, Google search etc.). OS/X being this way is the reason the OS stays so obscure.
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That assumes you would no longer be able to use the applications from Microsoft, Adobe, or Google. Which is clearly not the case, and OS X is obviously not a previous example of that.
 
GQB said:
wow... Do you ever not understand the difference between their business models.
Apple provides these services to drive sales of their hardware. Giving away tech that they paid enormous amounts to develop or purchase would be insane and irresponsible.
Google develops it in order to drive eyeballs to their ads. So of course they want it everywhere.
Spare us the 'for the benefit of all', tinkerbell nonsense. They deserve first mover benefit given by patents.

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They're not free.
And 'saint'? Oh my god. Are you ever gullible.
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I feel sad for you, thinking that something that should be available to the general public as a whole should be held back by just one company.

I don't mind most things being held back as they are things you can like or not like, want or no want. But I don't believe things such as maps should be kept from platforms due to company greed.
By all means licence it, but it should be available to everyone.

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Risco said:
This is another reason why Apple are so successful. Rather than waste millions on r and d, they buy a company and tailor fit it. The result is substantially shorter development times, less outlay and in increased profit. Just look at Siri, they bought the tech last year and it was ready in just over a year! They have a wonderful business model, and with so much cash in the bank they can acquire whatever they want at a whim.

One of the big things lacking in ios is a decent mapping system. The benchmark is Nokia maps, which is far and away the best integrated mapping system out there. I can see them building a solid subscription service out of this, bringing them yet more profit.

What an incredible company Steve Jobs built.
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Indeed, why waste time building a house, then you can just murder the family that made the house and move into to it.
A few gunshots is a lot easier and less work than building a house, and quicker too.
 
Nokia Maps 3D

Try using the Nokia Maps 3D on your browser and look at the bottom left corner. It says Nokia © 2011 C3 Technologies!!

You think Apple will terminate this?
 
dethmaShine said:
I just don't want it to be there. What is the point? I found it after some 40 apps open already. It's much easier to just go to the home screen and select the app from there itself. :|
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which is exactly what you're supposed to (and able to) do.

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Jim Boonie said:
Good, because I just bought MotionX Drive and it was the biggest pile of suck that ever sucked. The WORST directions in the universe. I believe it's Bing-powered, though. Insta-deleted. I hope this new system is actually a Navigation system and not just a Google Earth replacement.
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strange, I actually liked MotionX. I only replaced it with Garmin USA because I won't pay a subscription model.
 
lilo777 said:
Eventually iOS will fall victim to Apple's vertical integration. It will have a lot of Apple applications which are inferior to their counterparts from the specialized providers (like MS Office, Adobe PS, Google search etc.). OS/X being this way is the reason the OS stays so obscure.
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you have no idea what the frak you are talking about.
 
blackcrayon said:
That assumes you would no longer be able to use the applications from Microsoft, Adobe, or Google. Which is clearly not the case, and OS X is obviously not a previous example of that.
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That is exactly the case. No Adobe Flash, no full versions of Google Maps, Google Navigation, Google Voice.
 
dethmaShine said:
So 3D Google Maps were available for my HTC Desire as well? :|

Also, Google has practically done nothing with NFC. They have taken exactly what the 2 year old app was doing on the iPhone and embedded it into the system.

BOOM! That's it.
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Why not have a look at the App from Market?

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.maps&feature=top-free

I don't have much idea about the NFC App in iOS? I thought iPhone didn't have NFC. Am I assuming something wrong?
 
toddybody said:
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3)

4" tapered aluminum iPhone 5 with 3D maps...my body is ready
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3D maps are useful sometimes but 2D maps are much more important. 3D maps to 2D maps is like FaceTime to regular voice calls.
 
St. Germain said:
Android devices don't have 3D maps like this, and your kidding yourself to think otherwise.

NFC isnt some really difficult thing to implement on the software side. It's so basic that it doesn't make a difference who is ahead. It'll be as common as Bluetooth.

NFC for maps though? I can't think of an instance where this would be necessary or terribly usefull. I'd rather send such information wirelessly and if I'm sharing a location with someone, odds are that I'm not standing next to them anyway.
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Which Android devices have you used? If you can't download a freakin map from the Market, that's your fault. All recent Android devices has Maps 5 loaded, and if it isn't pre-installed, just download it.
 
re original article

looks sorta cool

hope it works better than current goog maps

stopped using mapquest years ago

currently using goog maps but it has its frustrations and limitations

hope the aapl map iteration kicks some butt
 
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