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Someone Who Has Seen Apple's New Maps For iPhone Says It 'Blow Your Head Off' (AAPL)

Jay Yarow

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The bar for Apple's coming maps application has officially been set way too high.

A source tells John Paczkowski at All Things D, Apple's maps will "blow your head off." Unfortunately, this source declined to elaborate further. Paczkowski speculates that Apple's "3D technology" for the maps will be mind bending.

Apple is planning on ditching Google Maps for its own home grown version on its mobile software, iOS.

We don't care if this new version blows our head off, we just want it work well. Maps on the iPhone is arguably the most important app on the phone.

Don't Miss: This Is The Mind Blowing 3D Technology Apple Will Use In Its Maps

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12 May 2012

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Apple's Cheap iPhone Might Not Be So Cheap After All (AAPL)

www.businessinsider.com Jay Yarow 19 days ago

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Apple is widely reported to be developing a lower cost iPhone to expand sales and market share around the world. But how low-cost is low-cost? Probably not as low-cost as you think. J.P. Morgan analysts Gokul Hariharan and Mark Moskowitz think Apple's lower priced iPhone is actually going to sell for $350. This would make it more of a mid-priced smartphone than a low-priced smartphone. In Apple's most recent quarter it reported an average selling price of $613 for the iPhone. This includes a mix of high-end iPhone 5s, and lower cost iPhone 4s. John Paczkowski at All Things D wrote up their not... Read similar

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CHART OF THE DAY: Microsoft's Windows App Store Is Already Smoking Apple's Mac App Store (MSFT, AAPL)

www.businessinsider.com Jay Yarow 176 days ago

One of the many big changes for Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system is the addition of an app store, just like what Apple has for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Microsoft is hoping that making an app store for Windows, will carry over to the tablet, and then the phone. One of the biggest problems for Microsoft, in competing with Apple, is a lack of apps. Here's an encouraging early sign. The Windows app store already has almost twice as many apps as the Apple Mac app store, according to data from app analytics company Distmo. Yes, the iPhone and iPad app stores are blowing away the Windows stor... Read similar

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9 Things We Want To Happen In Tech In 2013

www.businessinsider.com Dylan Love 152 days ago

The world didn't end this week, so we'll enter a brand new year in just a few short days. And there are some things I'd like to see happen in 2013. Let's make it a productive, interesting year for tech.I want mobile payments to become more mainstream It's time to start leaving wallets at home. Starbucks' in-store payment implementation is a pretty solid indicator that it's completely feasible to pay for things without a credit card, regardless of if your smartphone is equipped with NFC or not. I want to see an Apple television set In true Apple fashion, all the rumors and speculation have ev... Read similar

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Walt Mossberg Tells iPhone Owners To Use Google Maps (AAPL, GOOG)

www.businessinsider.com Jay Yarow 155 days ago

Esteemed personal tech columnist Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal is telling iPhone owners to stop using the Apple Maps app and start using the Google Maps app. In a review of the new Google Maps app, he says, "iPhone users can stop relying on the flawed, fledgling Apple maps app," now that Google has its own app, adding, "Apple is already improving its competing app, but for now, iPhone users, my recommendation is to go with Google Maps." He says the iPhone version of Google maps is even better than the Android version of Google maps, which is something we noted in our own review here... Read similar

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This Woman Went From Child Soldier To Tech CEO

www.businessinsider.com Megan Rose Dickey 120 days ago

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Ping Fu hasn't had the most traditional path to entrepreneurialism. When Fu was only eight years old, Mao Zedong's Red Guards took her from her home, forcing her to be a child soldier. Fu had to work in farms and factories, while taking care of her younger sister at the same time, Noalee Harel of The Huffington Post reports. While growing up in the midst of China's cultural revolution, Fu was also repeatedly raped and beaten by the Red Guards, Fu describes in her recent book, Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds. Around the age of 25, when she wrote her thesis on China's one child polic... Read similar

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This Is What It Would Take For Apple To Collapse To $340 (AAPL)

www.businessinsider.com Jay Yarow 33 days ago

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A year ago, analysts were imagining scenarios that would send Apple's stock to $1,000 a share. This year, they're trying to figure out how it doesn't go to zero. On Friday, Barclays analyst Ben Reitzes lowered his price target to $465 from $535. In the note explaining the $465 price target, he laid out a doomsday-type scenario that would lead to Apple's stock breaking down further and reaching $340 a share. In his opinion, it's all about margins. If Apple's gross margins crashed to 33%, down from 38.6% last quarter, he thinks the stock tanks. The gross margins would collapse if Apple was force... Read similar

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How The iWatch Could Fix Apple Maps (AAPL)

www.businessinsider.com Megan Rose Dickey 104 days ago

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If Apple launches an iWatch, it could, over time, help the company fix its mapping app. Bruce Tognazzini, a former Apple employee who now specializes in human-computer interaction, recently wrote on his blog AskTog about how Apple could use iWatch data to fix Apple Maps. One of Apple Maps' biggest flaws is its "3D View," which has inaccurately displayed a lot buildings, roadways, and bridges because it doesn't have any altitude information associated with them, Tognazzini writes. When Apple Maps first launched, here's how it depicted the Brooklyn Bridge: But according to Tognazzini, App... Read similar

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The 25 Most Creative People In Tech

www.businessinsider.com Julie Bort 70 days ago

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By its very nature, the tech industry is full of creative people working on amazing new things. Even so there are some people that stand out above and beyond. These are the people who change the game. They create mind-blowing technology and startups that alter the industry. Sometimes they do this over-and-over again.Jony Ive, Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, Apple Jony Ive is the star designer responsible for many of Apple's biggest, most important products including the MacBook Pro, iMac, MacBook Air, iPod, iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad and iPad Mini. Word is, he's in charge of Apple's... Read similar

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Well That Was Fast! 3D TVs Are Already Dead

www.businessinsider.com Megan Rose Dickey 134 days ago

It seems that 3D televisions have lost their appeal. 3D TV was the it-product at CES in 2010, but now TV manufacturers are no longer hyping the technology the way they have in the past. This year at CES, very few television makers even mentioned 3D, Troy Wolverton of the Mercury News reports. Panasonic focused on smart TVs, Sharp focused on a new screen technology, and Samsung and LG played up their 4K and OLED TVs. Samsung only talked about 3D in relation to one of its new camera lenses that can take 3D pictures, while Sharp spoke about how its new screen technology would off... Read similar

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Apple Wouldn't Give Its Blessing, So Two Guys Built An Apple Museum On Their Own (AAPL)

www.businessinsider.com Julie Bort 96 days ago

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Want to lay eyes on a historic Apple computer worth well over half a million bucks? Get yourself to Roswell, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta, on April 20 & 21 for the very first Apple Pop-Up Museum and Vintage Computer Festival. This is the brainchild of two self-described computer historians, David Greelish and his friend Lonnie Mimms. Both of them are avid collectors of classic and historic computers and other gadgets. (We've featured some of Greelish's treasures before). Greelish has been lobbying Apple to build a visitor's center at its new headquarters for all the Apple fans that will surely... Read similar

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Apple Is Building A New Beautiful Glass Store In San Francisco (AAPL)

www.businessinsider.com Jay Yarow 7 days ago

Apple is planning a new flagship store for San Francisco, John Paczkowski of All Things D reports. It will be at Stockton and Post on Union Square, and it will be 45% bigger than its current store in San Francisco. It will also be pretty fancy looking. According to the illustrations it's going to have a two-story glass opening. And the second story will look like it's floating in the air. (Hopefully there are no problems with acoustics.) Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story » Read similar

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Why You Should Care About 3D Printing

www.businessinsider.com Dylan Love 140 days ago

The same way that personal computing became a hotbed of innovation in the early 1970s, 3D printing seems to be experiencing a similar renaissance. While 3D printers were once huge, pricey devices reserved for the industrial elite, they have lately been adapted to fit on your desktop at home. All over the world, hobbyist manufacturers are extruding plastic objects for prototyping or simply for fun. But how important is 3D printing? And should you even care about it? If you're a tinkerer or DIY-er, then you should care a lot. The reasons here are obvious – having a 3D printer and being wel... Read similar

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Soon We'll Get To View Holograms On Our Phones And Tablets

www.businessinsider.com Jennifer Welsh 58 days ago

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Mobile holograms may soon be popping up everywhere from phones and tablets to billboard advertising. HP is in the process of developing a 3D mobile display for images and video that can be seen from any angle, which they've just published and described in the journal Nature. "This would mean you would see something like in 'Star Wars,' with the famous hologram of Princess Leia," study researcher David Fattal, of HP, told New Scientist. "If you were to display a 3D image of planet Earth, by turning around the display, you'd be able to have a view of any country on the globe." HP's Ray... Read similar

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BERNSTEIN: It's Not Unreasonable To Believe Apple Is Going To Have A Truly Monstrous iPhone Quarter (AAPL)

www.businessinsider.com Jay Yarow 132 days ago

A simple analysis by Bernstein points to Apple blowing the doors off for last quarter's iPhone sales. This chart, which was posted on Twitter, shows that if historical trends hold, Apple could sell 55.8 million iPhones. Analysts are calling for 47.6 million phones sold. The caveat: Apple is in the middle of a very weird quarter, so it's hard to use historical trends. Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story » Read similar

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Apple Should Hire One These Eight People To Lead Its Retail Operations (AAPL)

www.businessinsider.com Megan Rose Dickey 136 days ago

Apple has been pretty hush hush about its search for a new SVP of retail following the unexpected departure of retail boss John Browett. As John Paczkowski of AllThingsD reports, Apple can't afford to make another hiring mistake. So for the last several weeks, Paczkowski has been poking around to find ideal candidates. He found three from inside Apple who would be a good fit for the position: Steve Cano, Apple's manager of retail stores Bob Bridger, Apple VP for Retail Real Estate and Development Jeremy McDougal, Apple VP of Retail His sources are divided over who would be best suited ... Read similar

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Apple Is In 'Advanced' Negotiations To Buy Mapping Startup Waze (AAPL)

www.businessinsider.com Jay Yarow 140 days ago

If there was one thing that hung over Apple's head all year last year it was the failure of Apple Maps. It made the company a punch-line, and it led to the dismissal of Scott Forstall, who ran iOS. Apple is scrambling to fix Apple Maps, and it appears that one piece of the solution is buying mapping startup Waze. Mike Butcher at TechCrunch initially said there were "rumors flying" that Apple wanted to buy Waze. He has since updated his post and said there are "advanced" negotiations between the companies. Waze, which did $1 million in revenue last year, wants $750 million. Apple, meanwhile, is... Read similar

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Microsoft Wants A Discount From Apple To Bring Office To The iPad (AAPL, MSFT)

www.businessinsider.com Jay Yarow 163 days ago

Microsoft is in talks with Apple to bring Office to the iPhone and iPad, John Paczkowski at All Thing D reports. There is a hang up over money. Apple takes a 30 percent cut of all app sales and in-app purchases. Microsoft doesn't think it should be subject to Apple's 30 percent tax. Microsoft is planning on bringing Office to the iPhone and iPad for free. To edit documents in Office apps, users will have to purchase Office365 subscriptions. As is customary when it comes to in-app purchasing, Apple will take 30% of the sale. Microsoft feels that by offering Office on iOS, it's making iPads and ... Read similar

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Apple's Computer Watch Isn't Coming Til Late 2014 – Analyst (AAPL)

www.businessinsider.com Megan Rose Dickey 22 hours ago

Apple's highly-rumored "iWatch" likely won't launch until the second half of 2014, according to KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. We first saw the news on MacRumors. Previous reports claimed that Apple is looking to release a smartwatch by the end of this year, but that no longer seems to be the case. Kuo, who has a pretty good track record when it comes to predicting Apple's product plans, says it's because of both hardware and software issues. "Apple may not have adequate resources to develop an iWatch version of iOS because it may require big changes to iPhone and iPad iOS this year," Ku... Read similar

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The 19 Best Things About The iPhone (AAPL)

www.businessinsider.com Jay Yarow 91 days ago

We're in year six of the iPhone. You could be forgiven for taking it for granted at this point in your life. If you use one, and odds are you use some sort of smartphone that was influenced by the iPhone, it probably has become integral to your life. We've put together this appreciation for the iPhone, an amazing gadget, as a reminder of all it does to make life better. Before you cry bloody fanboy, or any other attack, just about everything we write here can be applied to Android, or Windows Phone. We're just using the iPhone in this case because it's what we use. So, when you start to lose y... Read similar

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Apple Blogger Praises Apple For Making Insignificant Improvements To Apple Maps (AAPL)

www.businessinsider.com Jay Yarow 71 days ago

Apple blogger Jim Dalrymple has a list of some improvements to Apple Maps. It's unclear where he got his list from, but it seems like it's from Apple PR. It could be a source in the company, he doesn't say. Wherever it came from, he dutifully transcribed Apple's message and didn't have a critical thing to say about the state of Apple Maps. The closest we get is this sentence at the end of his story: "Maps may have disappointed some users when it was first released, but when Tim Cook said he was focusing Apple’s attention to fix the issues, he meant it. And it shows." Dalrymple is on... Read similar

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