Apple Explains Why It Doesn't Plan to Create a Search Engine
Apple's senior vice president of services Eddy Cue has explained why the iPhone maker does not plan to create a search engine like Google. In a...
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...You're a multi-trillion dollar company (in value anyways) operating on billions in operating budget. I expect you, Apple, to make one eventually. Just shut up and try, watch it fail, then withdraw.
Like what they did with Maps… oh wait, Maps is actually pretty good now. Better than Google Maps in many ways. (Especially since it’s ad free and not shoving sponsored things at people)
And it’s voice based navigation is way ahead of Google’s. I mean, both get you there, sure. But no google, I don’t need to know I’m taking a turn on ST257315, when the road doesn’t even have a name sign. Telling me to turn right towards XY at the stop sign (as apple does) makes wayyy more sense.
"In 100ft continue onto Iwhatever"
I'm on the on-ramp, Google, where else do you think I might try to go?
About that,. Applé maps is OSM. So maybe the play is to steal a seach engine
They might take some data from OSM but it’s certainly not “live” OSM. Unfortunate, because that would make correcting data much easier and better (and you wouldn’t have to correct much in the first place)
they absolutely have an internal search engine, it’s code named pegasus, and it powers some parts of siri, spotlight, store, etc. they’ve had a web crawler for over a decade