Apple Services is the 2nd of 4 pillars to our Apple as a Service thesis…
Tag: Apple Maps
AAPL’s paradigm shift
About every 10 years, there is a new paradigm that drives Apple….
Apple’s Q218 earnings most important (and impressive) metric
On May 1st, Apple announced its financial results for the last quarter…
Apple is on a hiring spree to make Siri smarter
Apple appears to be focusing in a big way on Siri, evidenced by a major hiring spree…
Siri’s co-creator hits back at claims Siri was broken from launch
In the wake of a recent damning report, suggesting that Siri is broken…
Apple Maps vs. Google Maps vs. Waze
In early 2017, a conversation with yet another Waze fanboy finally nudged me to start a navigation app experiment…
How far behind Google Maps is Apple Maps?
Google seems to have them all, while Apple doesn’t have any…
Apple: Proving the naysayers wrong
I find Apple today to be markedly less risky than many of its tech peers…
Apple Services: The nitrous in Cupertino’s profit engine
If you exclude the iPhone, for every $1 in profit Apple generated in selling all other products…
Apple Maps vs. Google Maps
Apple’s turn-by-turn navigation is better than Google’s offering…
Why Google Maps is better than Apple Maps
I’ve been using Google Maps for years, since before Apple released its own map apps…
23 more app developers in China file lawsuit against Apple after App Store cuts 1 million apps
Anger is growing in China over Apple’s treatment of developers, with a second group of app designers…
Apple has a surprising new growth engine
Analyst Toni Sacconaghi of Bernstein Research put out a pointed note Monday about Apple…
Apple’s App Store in China accused of violating local pricing and antitrust laws
Apple offers gaming, dining and dating apps in a country where most rivals are locally owned…
Inside Apple’s massive services results
Apple’s second largest business last quarter in terms of revenue was its services business, eclipsing its Mac, iPad, and…
Apple’s App Store business model may be in danger in China
If Apple Inc. is lucky, a 10-page complaint posted on social media by a Chinese law firm…
Misunderstanding Apple Services
Services revenue for the last four quarters reached $27.8 billion…
Apple is suddenly looking to hire a huge number of map tech experts
That’s a lot of hiring around one discipline even for a juggernaut like Apple…
Apple Maps and Apple Music among the top 15 U.S. smartphone apps
comScore, Inc. recently released data from comScore Mobile Metrix…
Apple will reportedly pay freelancers to improve Apple Maps data
Apple is advancing its data accuracy efforts with Apple Maps, according to a new report…
Apple Maps now offers 3D models of Apple Park, Steve Jobs Theater, walkways, and more
Apple in a recent update to Apple Maps enhanced coverage of the Apple Park campus area…
Apple’s remarkable China success lost in earnings translation
The one big blemish in Apple’s earnings was made in China…
Dispelling the Apple Services myth
Apple is known for its quality hardware and software, but services are another story…
Leaked document details Apple employee eye injuries, hints at Apple AR glasses
An incident report compiled by an Environment Health and Safety contractor working for Apple…
Apple’s Maps update for Europe includes focus on electric vehicles
Apple Inc. is expanding the capabilities of its Maps app in Europe to help users…
Alphabet delivers Google Maps destination history to Apple’s iOS
As a competitor to Apple Maps, Google Maps does a pretty great job on iOS…
iCloud experiencing slow performance due to AWS outage; multiple Internet services affected
Apple’s system status site currently lists multiple iCloud services as experiencing slower than usual…
Apple CEO Cook on Augmented Reality: ‘I regard it as a big idea like the smartphone’
Tim Cook has been having quite the week. On Monday and Tuesday he was whistlestopping round France and Germany…
Apple has to start addressing these problems in 2017
Apple had some real problems in 2016 and, if the company wants to stay at the peak of relevancy…
Apple flying drones to improve Apple Maps data and beat Google
Apple Inc. plans to use drones and new indoor navigation features to improve its Maps service…
Apple working to integrate Augmented Reality capabilities into iPhone’s Camera app
Apple has a team of people working on integrating augmented reality functionality…
Apple’s skyrocketing R&D investments explained
Even though a good chunk of that now quite large research-and-development budget is probably being spent in
What does Apple get for $10 billion of R&D?
Apple seems to have some big things cooking up…
Analysts: Apple’s innovation will pay off… eventually
Despite a third straight quarter of lower year-over-year sales, Apple is looking ahead to some…
Why is Apple removing the Star of David symbol from Apple Maps?
Technology giant Apple has been removing Star of David symbols representing hospitals from its maps of Israel…
Getting familiar with Apple’s all-new, much-improved Maps app in iOS 10
If you haven’t been using Apple’s Maps app, the all-new version in iOS 10 is worth another look…
How Apple’s iPhone 7 will improve your travel life
The tech world stood still on Wednesday as Apple unveiled the new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus…
Why Apple likes to keep so many secrets
Apple is a notoriously secretive company, choosing to keep things under wraps until it has a product ready…
Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi open up about the Apple Maps embarrassment, learning from failure
What does it do to the development team, and to your plans, when something like Maps gets introduced and it’s derided immediately…
Apple’s mystery vans are making 3D road maps for Apple Car
Some new data-gathering vehicles are roaming the streets of San Francisco…
watchOS 3: See the Apple Watch’s new side button app dock
With watchOS 3, your Apple Watch apps launch immediately with updated information, so they’re always ready…
Oh, by the way: Apple Watch is already a $10 billion business
I have now begun seeing Apple Watches on a daily basis. Something has changed…
