On Friday, Apple “posted a new job listing seeking a Maps Web User Interface Designer to ‘design, develop, and maintain complex front-end code for a new secret project,’ Juli Clover reports for MacRumors.
“While the job listing briefly mentions Maps, it appears that the position could have a broader web development focus,” Clover reports. “According to the posting, the designer would join a small team that is working on an advanced web platform that will be the backbone of many future Apple services.”
Clover reports, “Though it is unclear what the secret project alludes to, it is possible that Apple is working on building up a more prominent web presence, developing a series of web-based apps that would extend the Apple experience outside of Apple products. For example, the company could build a web-based Maps app, similar to Google Maps, which could possibly be incorporated into iCloud or other Apple products in the future. ”
Read more in the full article here.
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Hmm. Weird. A similar posting has yet to show up on Samsung’s job openings page.
Didn’t Google maps just recently get written about because it was directing people to the taxi runway at the Anchorage Alaska airport? A number of stories and lots of people reporting that problem. That was really happening. That was no fluke. It was real. And had been happening for a while and even after being reported was still not corrected.
Apple Maps is fucking useless. I get lost all the time. I hate Apple Maps.
I call bullshit.
Sorry to hear it’s not working for you. For me it is almost flawless, I amazed at how well it does work.
Glad it works for you. As I drive up the onramp to my local interstate, according to Apple Maps, I am “slashing through the cornfields where the Nishnabotna flows”. It says I need to take back roads for another 3-4 miles down to the next onramp. It is a product that needs more then a little work… I am betting however that the new iBeacon has a lot to do with this secret project.
Have you tried following apple maps directions. It might be quicker.
I’m sure you do get lost all of the time. For instance being here.
How much was the check from ScamDung for, this time? Troll.
Register to MDN Seamus
I thought I had.
The real Seamus:
– Thinks Apple is the industry leader, innovating more than all other phone and computer companies combined
– Despises political content on this Mac news site — from any part of the political spectrum
– And despises small minded little jerks who attack anyone with a different opinion. (I attack jerks for their swearing, insults and name-calling, NOT for their opinions.)
So the real Seamus will now post with the *registered* full name of seamusodonnell.
Shame-us has no shame.
Samsung’s whore. Talking dirty to Samsung while chomping on his ….you know what.
I think Ill call BS too.
Where do you live Seamus?
Mongolia last time he noted it.
Seamus, if you don’t know how to use maps in the first place, Apple Maps aren’t going to help you find out where you are, or where you’re going.
Learn to use the technology properly, then you might actually get somewhere.
I have a cousin named Seamus, he’s lost also, somewhere in Ireland.
Learn to read then.
I use maps all the time, works and is faster and more accurate than google maps.
Your vile language tells us that your opinions are worthless.
Oh no, you better not say anything bad about Apple, they might attack you with their votes ahhhhhh!
Very happy with Apple Maps. Just upgraded from iPhone 4 to 5s, and was forced to use Google Maps on the 4 due to voice-guided directions.
Very happy to switch to Apple Maps. Use it daily.
Secret project = iwatch
Secret Project doesn’t mean anything at Apple. EVERYTHING that hasn’t been announced yet is a Secret Project. This is a common conversation start at Caffe Macs:
1: “Hi. What are you working on these days?”
2: “Secret Project. Can’t talk about it.”
3: “Yeah me too.”
(Conversation proceeds on to the pizza guy and the burrito bar.)
This is off the subject, but I found interesting. Chinese may have more wealthy people than moast of us think. The front page story in the San Jose Mercury today is about hordes of wealthy chinese buying homes in Palo Alto and Los Altos. One agent takes 14 at a time to see homes for sale. He drives them around Palo Alto to each of the city’s schools. He also shows them Steve Jobs and David Packards homes. These chinese buyers are excited about the “cheap” houses. Most buy houses between $1.5 and $2.5 million. But quite a few are lookong at $6 million and up. The typical Palo Alto house is about 40 yrs ols, 2,000 sq feet on lots about 8,000 sq ft. The average price is about $1.8 million. Seems that is considered dirt cheap to these buyers. Comparable house in Hong Kong is at least $5 million the article said. Could be there are a lot of well off chinese to buy those gold iPhones. Of course all these looking already have iPhones. I know this is off subject, but it boggles my mind.
You might find this article about the wealthy Chinese insightful.
http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/marketing_sales/understanding_chinas_wealthy
I spend 4 to 6 weeks a year in China and attest there is no shortage of wealthy people.
Another look at Chinese wealth. http://factsanddetails.com/china.php?itemid=157&#
Here’s another article to put things in perspective:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/09/15/countries-most-billionaires/2811571/
It’s worth noting how rapidly China has grown on that list.
My only problem with apple maps is that I don’t get turn by turn navigation on my iPhone 4, therefore I am forced to use google maps when driving – which works very well.
I hope you don’t follow Google Maps literally when you go over the bridge at Hoover Dam. They STILL have the road going straight down the cliff, across the water and straight up the other side.
Never understood the outrage at a few hiccups in Apple Maps while Google gets a pass.
Neither on iPhone 5. That’s a disappointment.
I get turn-by-turn voice on my 4S. Why don’t you have it on your 5???
It’s a good time to make a bigger push to get on to automobile dashboards.
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