“Siri creates useful software which uses geo-location and the Internet to help users track down locally-placed entertainment and services,” Evans reports. “Don’t neglect Apple’s under-the-radar 2009 purchase of mapping company, Placebase, giving Apple a mapping solution that could become rival to Google Maps, capable of handling more layers of information than rivals Google, Microsoft or Yahoo can handle.”
Evans reports, “The purchase of music streaming service, LaLa.com and Quattro Wireless also illustrate Apple’s mobile vision… {and Quattro Wireless] has already been morphed to become Apple’s premium-priced mobile ad network, iAds.”
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Apple Maps would be pretty interesting.
What’s behind Apple’s buying spree?
So, the answer to that is innovation? What a pointless question to start off the article. Apple is innovating, that is what makes Apple, well, Apple.
Would they call Apple Maps, Mapple?
Doh!
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Ecosystem, baby, ecosystem. They can’t compete with Apple’s ecosystem.
They keep TRYing to compete with Apple’s DEVICES (and can’t even do that), but their futility in competing with the totality of Apple’s vision is laughable.
The best they can do is mimic (M$, Google, BB, Motorola, etc.) or cry foul (Adobe, Adobe, Adobe). Not a recipe for competitive success.
Peace.
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Olmecmystic
Apple is so GGGAAAAYYY! y’all are FFFFAAAAGSS. Windows and Microsoft RRRUUULEEEE! jk I’m just trying to troll macheads, apple >microsoft
@ Chas, Lisa Simpson got there first. But the possibilities out there are endless…
@Chas
iMaps would sound a tad better…
What’s behind Apple’s buying spree?
40 SOME ODD BILLION DOLLARS, that’s what.
Simplify media which I’ve used since the beginning to stream my home music library to my iPhone, has pulled it’s product from the app store and the web-page says their moving on to new business and will inform of the details in three months (this was a few weeks ago). Anybody else think apple bought them and will use the new data center to cloud-store your iTunes library and make it available by streaming wherever you are? Does sound plausible.
Google will regret the day they decided to develop a phone.
@ Chas
Mapps, perhapps?
@edbenet
Why’dya think I said “Doh!”
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@ Billgates,
How’s that typing on your new slate computer coming along?
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I’m sure an Apple Map app would be great but I’d miss the Street View that Google Maps has. It’s pretty cool.
Frankly, as many have said in the past, Steve has a vision that is 10 years out, not just a year or two.
All of these acquisitions support that vision. And some won’t come to fruition for a while.
What did Apple do in the past 5 or more years about the tablet? We don’t really know but it seems to have panned out in a pretty decent one in the iPad, no? *smile*
One can only imagine what Apple has in the pipeline in the years to come.
They’ve been a little depressed lately and shopping perks them up.