me: *Merges onto a newly built Exit/Entrance ramp that didn’t exist 6mths ago*
GPS: Where, the FUCK, are you taking us?!?!?… Whoa-Whoa!-WHOA!!!… ok.
omg younger people may not remember this but like in 2011ish google maps sucked and didn’t know what any land besides a road was so as soon as you entered a parking lot it would yell at you over and over to get back on the road. like bro no this is where I need to be!!
Apple maps tried to get me to turn onto a bridge that was above me because it thought it was an intersection.
for a while their official icon illustrated an example of this
One time google maps told me to walk through an Air Force base and I got stopped by armed guards.
last year google maps kept yelling at me to turn around in a parking lot because I gave it the address to a store in a mall and it wanted me to drive inside the mall with my car to get there.
once i was looking for a food shop in dover & google maps told me to board the ferry to france
The only time I ever used a GPS back home it kept getting mad at me because I wouldn’t turn right, directly into Lake Taupo. It insisted that I needed to turn right for 25 minutes straight.
Once I was driving back from someone’s house and GPS told me to turn left to get onto the exit ramp for the highway. You know, where there’s a barrier in-between the two sides of the road, and all exits are on the right? Yeah, it told me to turn left there.
Google has not made a maps app for the iPhone 5, its chairman Eric Schmidt said this morning - and his company is not working on one.
The search engine supremo’s snub will come as a blow to fanbois who “upgraded” to the latest Apple smartphone, or installed the new iOS 6 operating system on their fruity gadgets, and found Google’s maps app replaced by Apple’s less-than-brilliant satnav-like alternative. Many punters have urged Google to produce a new replacement map app.
“We have not done anything yet,” Schmidt said, answering questions from journalists in Japan, according to Reuters.
Schmidt revealed that execs at top tech companies chat among themselves a lot, but that obviously doesn’t stop the power play that has seen Google’s map service booted out of the iPhone. Apple and Google are locked in a battle for supremacy in the mobile tech arena: the search giant’s Android operating system is at the heart of smartphones and tablets competing against Apple’s iPhones and iPads.
“We’ve been talking with [Apple] for a long time. We talk to them every day,” he insisted. He was mellow on Apple’s decision:
We think it would have been better if they had kept ours. But what do I know? What were we going to do, force them not to change their mind? It’s their call.
Schmidt’s aside to a press pack is the only indication from Google so far about its plans for Google Maps on iOS 6, which also powers the new iPhone 5. There was speculation that Google was on the verge of putting out a replacement app available through iTunes.
Schmidt took the opportunity to make a few more points about the iPhone: “Apple is the exception, and the Android system is the common model, which is why our market share is so much higher.”
Schmidt said that the success of Linux-powered Android smartphones has been overlooked by the media, which he said was “obsessed with Apple’s marketing events and Apple’s branding”.
“That’s great for Apple, but the numbers are on our side,” he said.
Cuando tenía cinco años, Saroo Munshi Khan se quedó dormido cuando iba de viaje en tren con su hermano. Al despertar, se encontró con que no había nadie más a bordo: estaba perdido la India, un país con más de mil millones de habitantes. Lo adoptó una familia australiana, que se ocupó de que Saroo nunca olvidara sus raíces.
Saroo siempre quiso encontrar a su familia de origen, pero sólo contaba con unos cuantos recuerdos borrosos. Sin embargo, a partir de dichos recuerdos y con la ayuda de Google Maps, consiguió hacer su sueño realidad.
All My iPhone Apps - April 2015 Update (★ marks a favourite)
Someone reminded me that it’s been a year since I last made a blog post about what’s on my iPhone, so here’s an update. I recently went through my apps and thought critically about what I really use and what I don’t open on at least a weekly basis. I went from hundreds of apps to 63 (according to my Settings) and it feels great! I still have some apps left in my Other folder that I want to try out more before I move them to my main page, and my school’s hideous app in Reference is going away as soon as I’m finished with my exams.
My background wallpaper is one of Apple’s gradients in the wallpaper menu.
QR codes have been around in Asia for some time but have really only started to take off in the US and Europe in recent years thanks to their revival by the social media site, Snapchat.
Now you will likely find these strange-looking square barcodes on a variety of materials, from product packaging to leaflets, brochures to billboards, but what are QR codes and how can they help you with your…
