To be fair, given the services provided by the Genius Bar I bet plenty of those visits are not related to actual problematic devices (and even less that result in actual device repairs or replacements).
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I hate to burst your bubble... but it is the real world. Apple Maps gets its map data from TomTom, who happens to own Tele Atlas -- which is where Google Maps gets its maps. It also uses map data from other sources like OpenStreetMaps, as does Google. It gets its satellite images from Digital Globe, which is where Google gets its satellite images from for both Maps and Earth. It collects real-time traffic data from systematic jurisdictional systems, as well as crowd-sourced data from Waze and contributes back to the Waze system from its own users. It has a POI system comprised of, now, over 20 sources.
So yes, the real world results of all these changes leave Apple Maps totally on par with Google Maps. And when you cut to turn-by-turn navigation, has surpassed the still-and-forever-Beta Google Maps.
Welcome to the real world.
It's interesting though that there are still
occasions where Apple Maps won't know about the correct layout of some street or even of the existence of something or other--none of which are new or anything like that--while Google Maps will (there are likely some examples the other way around as well, although I haven't personally encountered them).
Why not make their own devices and get around security issues since off-the-shelf stuff will always be easier to find hacks into.
"It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. -- Alan Shepard"
Well, he'll whine about wasting excessive spending otherwise.
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Yes, we know Ballmer others call open source "Cancer".
Guess what? The FreeBSD used at the core of iOS and OSX is no less cancerous, for equal reason.
You are so right sir, the genius bar are not fixing device issues at all, they are just helping folk choose new bands. Gotcha...
Google "iOS buggy" or go to any Apple forum and read complaints about bugginess and the like. You'll find a lot of problems too. Indeed, here's an article from a website that everyone claims is Apple's lapdog, read the URL for all the description anyone needs: http://www.zdnet.com/article/ios-9-bugs-are-making-me-eye-android/
But that isn't the only site or resource that spells out how the grass isn't greener on either side.
SIMPLE.
On a more serious note from my reading on this the phones they are using currently are 2010 vintage so really anything will be a massive improvement over what they have now
You have as much chance of folk on this site actually believing what actually goes on in the real world of apple as you have platting fog!!!
Well done for trying tho..
AFAIK, Ballmer wasn't referring to all open-source software, just the GPL movement. No, FreeBSD is under the BSD license. Ballmer called the GNU Public License "cancer" because it spreads very aggressively. If you use GPL software, your software must be GPL. This is not the case with the more permissive BSD license, one reason why people/companies like Apple build software off of FreeBSD instead of Linux.Yes, we know Ballmer others call open source "Cancer".
Guess what? The FreeBSD used at the core of iOS and OSX is no less cancerous, for equal reason.
Now, when I said that Android comes with cancer pre-installed, I was using the modern slang term commonly used amongst gamers (which I'm not, BTW) that just means "something really bad and/or malicious." But since Android is Linux, it's also GPL "cancer."
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I've seen Android being buggier than iOS, but I've also seen Android improving while iOS is getting buggier. I used to have zero problems in iOS 6. At some point, they may cross.
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Yeah, it's probably mostly people who don't know how to use their devices. I wonder if I'm a source of excitement for them, bringing in my unlucky family's legitimately broken devices. Three iMac HDD failures and a GPU failure on the same iMac within 12 months. My mom manages to screw up a fresh iOS installation I just put on her phone within a week. My dad's rMBP now gets KPs if it goes to sleep sometimes. I think we're cursed, unless it's just the sea breeze degrading our hardware.
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That's much better than how prisoners are worked in many prisons in the world.
Heck, it beats how many US soldiers live, for that matter. I and my buddies had little sympathy for prisoners back home who were getting better room and board, with less work, than those of us who had volunteered to be in the military.
(That said, I think it's a waste that a quarter of US prisoners are in jail because of drug charges.)
How very nice of you to focus on the supposed luxury of prisoners instead of the fact that this system treats it's citizens like animals, prison labor and conditions being no exception.
I didn't say our prison system was perfect. It's not, by a long shot.
I said it is better than many in the world (try serving time in say, South America).
I also said that military duty can have much harder labor and conditions. But I wouldn't expect many civilians to understand that.
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No, they are about to become the best.
If they wanted to use and be the best the obvious choice is Nexus
I understand that, what I don't understand is why you guys are paid so little. Just like the police, firefighters, EMTs....well just about everyone. But yea, it makes sense to compare between each other over who truly deserves a living humane wage instead of realizing that we are all systemically being screwed over.