Tag: apple maps

  • Apple Maps privacy

    TechCrunch reported that Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up. “We specifically don’t collect data, even from point A to point B,” notes Cue. “We collect data — when we do it — in an anonymous fashion, in subsections of the whole, so we couldn’t even say that there is a person that went…

  • Apple purchased PrimeSense for mapping instead of motion sensing technology?

    While gesture control would be fun, it would be great if Apple seriously improved its mapping technology, especially outside the U.S. With PrimeSense, Apple Got Key Mapping Technology But PrimeSense’s technology is much more strategic for mapping, according to one person familiar with the company. In fact, companies like Matterport, which makes a camera for…

  • Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won

    Charles Arthur reports on The Guardian how Google maps lost to Apple maps when everyone thought it had won. The break with the iPhone came when Apple became frustrated in late 2009 by Google’s refusal to provide turn-by-turn navigation for maps on the iPhone – a feature which was available on Google’s own Android, and…