Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up

Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by pythonaut_16 on Friday June 29, 2018 @03:27PM (#17427058)

I think it's kinda like Google working with Android as an open source project. Google makes money on Android primarily by using Android as a means of delivering the Google ecosystem. They don't care that it's open source because they don't make money by selling it.

Apple could do the same thing with maps. Support a robust open mapping initiative to make sure their primary business (selling iPhones and other devices) has a solid platform for emerging technologies like AR. Making sure they have a solid maps offering supports the Apple (aka iPhone) ecosystem.

Also similarly to Google, they can still push plenty of proprietary things on top of the open parts of the initiative.

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Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by borgel on Friday June 29, 2018 @03:52PM (#17427323)

Plus it seems like this would weaken Google's partial stranglehold on the market is a side effect.

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Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by oblio on Friday June 29, 2018 @04:08PM (#17427455)

Commoditize your complement.

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Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by mikejarema on Friday June 29, 2018 @05:31PM (#17428000)

I like that line, is it yours or does it have some further history/examples behind it?

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Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by mkl on Friday June 29, 2018 @05:58PM (#17428167)

It's been around for a while. Here it is talked about by Joel Spolsky in 2002: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

Gwern's article about it was recently discussed here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17047348

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Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by gxs on Friday June 29, 2018 @04:36PM (#17427663)

This is a great idea. I hope someone at Apple is reading.

Makes perfect sense, they don't need to make money on it, just an alternative to google.

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