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Re:Google launches Uber rival RideWith by minthd on Monday July 06, 2015 @11:03AM (#9839567)
Apple(and Google) has unique advantages as the owners of the major platforms, and and major mapping apps, with access to all travel data. Those are major building blocks of such a travel service.
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Re:Google launches Uber rival RideWith by toomuchtodo on Monday July 06, 2015 @12:08PM (#9840113)
Mapping data isn't travel data. One is useful for representing the world, the other is only useful for marketing data.
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Re:Google launches Uber rival RideWith by dylanjermiah on Monday July 06, 2015 @11:35AM (#9839829)
What access does Apple have to travel data?
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Re:Google launches Uber rival RideWith by minthd on Monday July 06, 2015 @11:43AM (#9839905)
It has access to all the location data of each of it's users.
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Re:Google launches Uber rival RideWith by untog on Monday July 06, 2015 @12:06PM (#9840095)
Except that they've made a big deal lately of differentiating themselves from Google by not using your data.
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Re:Google launches Uber rival RideWith by dylanjermiah on Monday July 06, 2015 @01:21PM (#9840658)
That's what I thought, unsure if it's true. But Tim Cook was making a big deal about the lack of data collection.
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