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Drago
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A decade late, but moving fast.
I thought Apple were supposed to be all about innovation, but lately all the seem to do is copy everyone else. Let's just hope they do a better job that with their home smart speaker.
I thought Apple were supposed to be all about innovation, but lately all the seem to do is copy everyone else. Let's just hope they do a better job that with their home smart speaker.
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gom
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Vans out on Gloucestershire today. I hope to be featured near Stow-on-the-Wold sometime soon.
I think their success has normally been built on taking existing technology and bettering it. Smartphones, tablet computers etc all existed prior to Apple’s involvement, but they made a well designed version. Same with iPod etc. With their maps and Siri though, they’ve neglected the technology and are now investing heavily in both to make ground back in Google (maps and google assistant) and Amazon (Alexa)
My tuppence worth anyway
I think that's a fair assessment.
But Apple did poison their maps business themselves by releasing woefully incompetent early versions, which is very much unlike Apple - what they're usually very good at is making first releases of new products go with a Wow. I remember one of their howlers that was widely shared was a route between two places a couple of hundred miles apart in the UK (I can't remember the places but I remember trying it for myself) and the recommended route went via several ferries and around Scandinavia.
