Re:Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsu...
by rapsey on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @03:15AM
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> I think what google did better was marketing.
What google did was make it into a mass product and they had the resources to apply it to a planet level. That is more than marketing. There are a whole lot of steps between tech demo/proof of concept to product. The most important of which is to actually have the foresight of what the product can be and a plan to get there.
Re:Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsu...
by nl on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @02:49AM
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It's true GIS departments did have some access to LandSat grade access via ArcGIS.
But it wasn't useful to anyone who wasn't in the GIS/remote sensingspace. Firstly, the ArcGIS product was primarily client/server and secondly you had to understand what you wanted to see before you used it - it was (and is) literally as easy to get infra red satellite imagery as actual photos.
That's not just marketing - it made it usable for whole new markets.
Re:Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsu...
by thatoneguy on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @04:24AM
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The hybrid location tracking technology was actually invented by another company that later sued Google:
They also had, maybe, 10 users outside of our own network a year. Everyone else we’re using the traditional pre-google-maps map websites, in my country krak.dk.
I think what google did better was marketing. Then they mapped every WiFi network on the planet to make real life location tracking faster than using GPS.