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Mysterious Apple Car Spotted Roaming Bay Area Streets
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Yes, yes... VERY humorous.
My iPad Air 2 & iPhone 6 are sooooo much less functional that an original iPad & an iPhone 3GS.
I'm with you. I wish they wouldn't keep removing so much thick functionality & making their products less and less usable year after year. Derp dee derp, derp derp derp.
/sarcasm
Interesting idea. Instead of just flying over a cityscape, you'd be able to land on the ground. Anywhere.
Like Superman!
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Only because no one would buy map data from Apple. We have enough accidental drownings as it is, we don't need to steer people into the oceans when they're trying to get on the freeway.
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It's slmost thick enough. And it does look more useful. And, it looks like they finally solved the 19 hour operating limit.
Why on earth would Apple make a driverless car.
Unless Apple has completely lost their way in the 4 years since Steve Jobs died, I think they know enough to remain focused on just a few projects at a time. Between Apple Watch, Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, and Mac, I think they've got enough on their plate for the time being. Maybe when the Watch isn't such an infant project and the iPad is stagnating like the iPod.
Unless Apple has completely lost their way in the 4 years since Steve Jobs died, I think they know enough to remain focused on just a few projects at a time. Between Apple Watch, Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, and Mac, I think they've got enough on their plate for the time being. Maybe when the Watch isn't such an infant project and the iPad is stagnating like the iPod.
i can't believe this thread got to forty comments before someone pointed out the most obvious aspect of this article. One of the greatest wrongologists of all time is being quoted. Just too embarrassing, macrumors.
It may benefit everyone short term, but long term we benefit more from competition. Hypothetical: Apple comes out with vector based street view maps. Google improves theirs to vector based as well + some other "holy crap didn't know they could do that" implementation. Some other mapping company comes up with an innovative take. They get acquired by Apple and integrated into Maps. Everyone ups their game and we all benefit.
What ever Apple is doing, I hope it leads to something good and is something to drive the competition to come up with something even better.
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Switch to decaf. It was just a joke.
/insert Joker-Why So Serious pic.
But you do sound like one.
Literally millions of people drive across these roads in between each update by Google or Apple... street mapping is 0.0000001% of the total traffic... Get over it.
Flash?
With all the continual "critical" "zero-day" Flash exploits, why the link to a Flash video? ;-)
With all the continual "critical" "zero-day" Flash exploits, why the link to a Flash video? ;-)
I also feel like if Apple were doing something as significant as working on self-driving cars, they would be a bit more clever about it. They wouldn't lease the car in their own name, for one. And the cameras might be more disguised, perhaps behind one-way mirrors.
I think this is just a mapping car. Apple will send out hundreds of them shortly and add street view to its Maps program by the end of the year.
The USA have about four million miles of road. You don't need _thousands_ of drivers to map that out. 200 drivers + 200 copilots, each doing 20,000 miles a year, is enough.
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I think Apple would want a car where lots of stuff can be mounted on the roof, and there is space to carry lots of computer equipment around.
With this logic you'll never have a ton of money. Just because you have the cash doesn't mean you should spend your cash on stuff you don't need.
That's the first thing that came to my mind. They can catch up to Google a lot faster if they have something running basically 24 hours a day.
Switch to decaf. It was just a joke.
/insert Joker-Why So Serious pic.
And it would've been funny if it was something like:
"You know if Apple made a car, no matter how much improved it got over time... it would always have the same mpg rating! =P"
Get it? Because iPhone and iPad battery life never change. See... it's based on something real, hence = humor. That's how that works. If I said "you'd get flat tires a lot" or something stupid like that... it would not make sense. See... because that's not something Apple is known for. Kind of like the OP comment about losing functionality each iteration. See... that's not funny because actually each new product adds functions. Understand now?
Btw... when someone actually writes a post using a word as silly as "derp" in it; I'm not sure "why are you being so serious?" is an appropriate response. Derp has never been used in a State of the Union address I believe for the express purpose that it radiates an aura of non-seriousness. =P
Lol, I love jokes & joking. I just thought that was a poorly constructed one.
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I believe the OP meant that Apple would never sell your address SEARCH data to others, not anything to do with MAP data.
The fact that you deconstructed his comment AND offered unfunny alternatives makes me question your sense of humor
Look at the technology that Apple uses for its 3D mapping projects. This project (with its many camera's) is to supplement their aired 3D mapping program.
It isn't 'street view' as in the implementation of how Google has done it (static 2D images) rather supplementing their 3D image data to provide 3D street level views within their 3D model of the world. This gives Apple the best of both worlds.
Apple isn't building a car. That isn't their MO. This isn't that.
It isn't 'street view' as in the implementation of how Google has done it (static 2D images) rather supplementing their 3D image data to provide 3D street level views within their 3D model of the world. This gives Apple the best of both worlds.
Apple isn't building a car. That isn't their MO. This isn't that.
Maybe they should work on more than just one thing at a time.
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Agreed. Google's QuicktimeVR approach will seem hopelessly dated soon. I'd hate to see Apple use that approach.
Car: "Hey Siri, take me to 1 Infinite Loop"