Get the Cue fenomenon off the podium NOW.
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Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi Discuss Maps and 'Learning From Apple's Failures' In New Interview
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And your comment on Craig has nothing to do with the article. Who cares what his photo looks like.
Give them marks for honesty. "Tim never tried to be like Steve". He's undeniably proved that, for sure. 
The only people who thought this are people at Apple. Meanwhile, in the real world, engineers understand that the difficulty is awesome.
These people are still focused only on the data while the search functionality still lags far behind.
It would be wildly inaccurate a lot of the time. So... it would force them to display the speedometer only within a periods in which you had a high-confidence of accuracy. Considering that 'speed' plus driving is a legal issue, provided by the vehicle already, it makes sense to just dodge the whole debacle.
Because they know what we want BEFORE we do.
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Sometimes, something that happens in one department can have a knock on effect in the other? A quote from an article on ‘Wide Colour’.
Both True Tone and Wide Color require extensive hardware and software integration to work. Like support for Retina Display, it also requires some attention from third party developers to make sure that the new changes are supported in their apps.
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Steve would rip off your balls in front of the company. I think Tim snivels. I think I can see the difference in leadership.
Do you think that the new MacBook would have been more or less popular with two USB ports and 0.25mm thicker, (that you wouldn’t notice)?
Don’t talk crap man.
We all know Apple Maps was done out of spite, ego and hubris and the results are obvious that this is NOT the way to make good long-term business decisions. Releasing a crappy platform specific, distant 2nd place clone of an existing superlative and cross platform service that most Apple customers use anyways is a mistake that Apple needs to learn from, and yet they make over and over and over again.
But there is one thing clear, everything's not "Awesome" at Apple these days when they are willing to claim they made mistakes and not continue to drive forward a marketing message they are perfect and amazing at everything, so perhaps this company is starting to grow up and move away from its petulant and egotistical era now that the cold hard reality of quickly eroding sales figures are starting to set in and the company clearly doesn't have anything in its immediate pipeline to stop that.
But there is one thing clear, everything's not "Awesome" at Apple these days when they are willing to claim they made mistakes and not continue to drive forward a marketing message they are perfect and amazing at everything, so perhaps this company is starting to grow up and move away from its petulant and egotistical era now that the cold hard reality of quickly eroding sales figures are starting to set in and the company clearly doesn't have anything in its immediate pipeline to stop that.
What were you expecting them to say? Tim sucks, we wish Steve was here?
They haven't lost their magic ... in fact, what is about to occur could be considered on-par with the 5s and it's register-rich A7 processor ... and by that I mean "Wide Color" ... it will trigger a revolution in capture & display ... third-party Wide Color-enabled apps will lead the charge ... Apple's Live Photos v2 will impress the masses with their own implementation.
Wide Color is simply Off the Radar of most ... but it should NOT be ! It will be at the center of everyone's radar come mid-Sept.
Cue and Federighi are deluded if they think Apple is a niche company. Apple’s acquisitions and car ambitions (A car! Really?) say otherwise. Ultimately, Apple doesn’t have the luxury of ignoring trends and competitors’ forays if those developments have any potential to unthrone Apple as the most recognizable consumer brand.
It is not about Timmy not being Steve - it is about the dismal state of affairs at Apple under Timmy's "leadership" - stock price / $130,000,000,000 wasted on buybacks / lack of updates on Macs / buggy releases / etc.
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I would suggest you read the hundreds upon hundreds of posts detailing what is lacking.
Apple Maps was done because Apple is going to need to depend on it with their cars. Apple isn't going to create a self-driving car and then depend on Google Maps.
"we kind of let the team we put in charge of it go off on their own"...This from someone paid millions a year. Seriously? He's either arrogant, incompetent or thick....Given how anal and/or (comically) macho most US managers are, how come such high paid help can get away with being so complacent? Guess it's because they run the company and the CEO and non-execs aren't holding anyone accountable....what appalling corporate governance.
nah, the Apple maps move existed long before Apple was even remotely in the position to think of cars or self driving cars.
In reality it was a move to disconnect and distance themselves from Google services. Apple still had a year left on their contract with Google for Maps. The contract that was currently in place didn't have google's navigation and added functionality as part of it. Instead of renegotiating to maintain Google Maps as the default mapping application, and paying for the added features (That Android version of Google Maps had), Apple decided to cut it out completely and go their own in house option.
It was a business motivated strategy, not a "customer" driven strategy. it wasn't about having the best option, but the option Apple could control
Why do you say this, because of that one mobile me anecdote? You do realize that most of the executive leadership team at Apple was put in place (and groomed) by Steve.
''So you're trying to replace one thing with another thing, and we kind of let the team we put in charge of it go off on their own. Now that you understand the complexity of Maps, you realize that it was a relatively small team, and we kind of isolated them in their own little world. We completely underestimated the complexity of the product. If you think of Maps, it seems like it's not that hard. All the roads are known, come on! All the restaurants are known. There's Yelp and Open Table; they have all the addresses. Mail gets delivered; UPS has all the addresses. The mail arrives. FedEx arrives. You know, how hard is this? That was underestimating."
Erm... shouldn't executives know the details of the part of the business they are responsible for? Could they not have asked for expert help in estimating the scope of the task from academics etc.? And who the heck views Yelp! as a good database? Where I live it is often years out of date in spite of notifying them of changes. I understand that creating Maps was a monumental task, and it is getting better. However, this just highlights for me how executives can lose the plot when they are so isolated in their everyday experiences from both their minion staff and from their customers.
Wait for the September event and if there is no significant update to the Mac, you can beat them with a sandal for all I care...
Maybe he meant a Ped meter for when he's hatching a Pokemon egg?