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Re:iMac Pro's T2 chip by gigatexal on Thursday January 04, 2018 @03:21PM (#16073718)
I think it's gotten better but if I want to get to a place and trust that I can get to a really hard to find place I use google maps. From a user's perspective I agree. But if Apple could or did, I'd use Apple's search engine over Google's (a la the use case for duckduckgo), just so I wasn't funding Google. But I make compromises like anyone else.
Re:iMac Pro's T2 chip by amygdyl on Friday January 05, 2018 @04:09AM (#16077486)
Imagine you are now the only person who has to be satisfied with the confidence you feel in map products.

Otherwise you equally weight everything giving nobody any preference other than no data and no location.

Now you realize that everyone has disabled maps until you switch them on because you rely on API location information.

However the five years since you began enforcing privacy has allowed everyone to reach parity.. partly because nobody is piggy backing the others.

I can't think of the way I could trade off the what next situation I just described: get everyone using power hungry chips to get you a chance at the bad guy .. how does it work if you balance the players?