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A big expansion in vehicles might be motivated by trying to have fresh imagery for most of the country.
The POI issue could just be that they just don't have a good POI database (because they all have problems).
Seems like the vehicle switch could be well explained by a big expansion in the number of vehicles (so move to something that has lower lifetime cost). A big expansion in vehicles might be motivated by trying to have fresh imagery for most of the country. The POI issue could just be that they just don't have a good POI database (because they all have problems).
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I will also say it took way too long to get to the point. Several points that could've been made with 1-2 examples had 5-6. It got a little exhausting.
After too much scrolling just now, I remember a similar-looking article, also about Apple Maps, from a few years ago that was probably from this same blog. His style is way too many illustrations and a few lines of text in between. Feels buzzfeedy. Sorry, just not for me.
And an earlier one than that got 1960: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15965653
So clearly some people like this style of article (myself included).
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After too much scrolling just now, I remember a similar-looking article, also about Apple Maps, from a few years ago that was probably from this same blog. His style is way too many illustrations and a few lines of text in between. Feels buzzfeedy. Sorry, just not for me.
Disagree. I enjoyed the investigative style and liked being able to follow along as the author laid out the evidence. I’d rather see how the they came to their conclusions than read a bunch of bullet points.
Obviously it's a free world to disagree, but if I were his editor I'd tell him his blog posts are ineffective because it's rambling, and if he presents it more concisely, more people would appreaciate it.
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Disagree. I enjoyed the investigative style and liked being able to follow along as the author laid out the evidence. I’d rather see how the they came to their conclusions than read a bunch of bullet points.
I still went through it until it got to the SHORTCUTS section. At that point I got frustrated wondering what this pivot was all about and how much longer this article was going to go on until it got to the point (as many here have said) of what he wants to say. Sure, evidence, but the many tables and images that I had to focus on to interpret just distract from the flow of the story. Too many! There are also too many…
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18358902 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15965653
Do you also think these were bad / annoying to read?
(The reason I ask is because I started a newsletter at the beginning of the year and have been trying to emulate his style. But if people genuinely hate it, then I obviously don’t want to follow it. :))
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> It seems surprisingly un-Apple-y to allow someone in that position to publish articles detailing the flaws in Apple maps, speculate about where they get their data and how the quality problems might affect unannounced future products. That tells me he no longer works at Apple. If he did, why would he need to speculate about Apple's internal processes based on what they publicly release? This article ( https://www.j…
Yes he used to work at Apple in the Maps team for many years but left a few years ago... thus his guess.
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I still went through it until it got to the SHORTCUTS section. At that point I got frustrated wondering what this pivot was all about and how much longer this article was going to go on until it got to the point (as many here have said) of what he wants to say. Sure, evidence, but the many tables and images that I had to focus on to interpret just distract from the flow of the story. Too many! There are also too many…
Someone else pointed out that some of his earlier articles (written in the same style) got >1000 points on HN: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18358902 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15965653 Do you also think these were bad / annoying to read? (The reason I ask is because I started a newsletter at the beginning of the year and have been trying to emulate his style. But if people genuinely hate it, the…
Upvotes might not mean much, maybe other information addicts saw a dense page and "ooh, endorphins, upvote".
After a certain point it just got exhausting to follow. Reading is simple, but looking at images so I can agree with the conlusion he made tasks the brain.
Oh, the moat article even has footnotes that scrolls to the end of the page and you then have to click back... god damn, how!!!
If he was in a conference room presenting a slideshow (each image being a slide), how long would his presentation be? At what point does he lose the majority of the audience? At least with slides people usually point out what they want you to pay attention to, and they don't do 7 slides of examples for one point (like the "look, Google Maps has outlines of buildings!" in the moat article).
https://maps.apple.com/imagecollection/privacy/uk/en/privacy... has this comment on the historical image collection: To ensure that Apple was applying the best image blurring technology possible, Apple conducted an entire year of test drives through the US and Europe in 2015, where it did not publish any of the imagery collected during these drives but used it instead to improve Apple’s technology such as image blurr…
Look Around is so much better than Google. But Apple Maps is still far behind Google Map in terms of accuracy.
https://maps.apple.com/imagecollection/privacy/uk/en/privacy... has this comment on the historical image collection: To ensure that Apple was applying the best image blurring technology possible, Apple conducted an entire year of test drives through the US and Europe in 2015, where it did not publish any of the imagery collected during these drives but used it instead to improve Apple’s technology such as image blurr…
I thought it was obvious. Author wrongly assume those Data Collection from 2015 - 2018 were used for Maps. When they were actually done for training purpose or R&D. And it is obvious their detecting Algorithm is no where close to what Google is doing. Look Around is so much better than Google. But Apple Maps is still far behind Google Map in terms of accuracy.
Apple said it was being used for Maps: https://web.archive.org/web/20150610193011/http://maps.apple...
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Someone else pointed out that some of his earlier articles (written in the same style) got >1000 points on HN: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18358902 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15965653 Do you also think these were bad / annoying to read? (The reason I ask is because I started a newsletter at the beginning of the year and have been trying to emulate his style. But if people genuinely hate it, the…
Yes they were annoying to me, and that's why I remembered them. Upvotes might not mean much, maybe other information addicts saw a dense page and "ooh, endorphins, upvote". After a certain point it just got exhausting to follow. Reading is simple, but looking at images so I can agree with the conlusion he made tasks the brain. Oh, the moat article even has footnotes that scrolls to the end of the page and you then ha…