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>This will raise the bar for developers. It'll force them to do better app store SEO and it'll force the, to pay attention to design. [...] Developers should be welcoming competition and with so many crap apps out there today it's probably better for good app developers to work on getting their rankings higher while the crap app makers languish at the end of the results.

Good comment, but I don't agree with this part. This does very little to help "good app developers" or encourage competition.

The app store is very strongly biased towards the first few hits for a given search result. As a small to medium developer, if you're not in the top 5-10, depending on the keyword, you may as well not exist. And that ranking depends first and foremost on your ability to drive downloads to your app, and a distant second on your app quality.

This change will make the bias that much stronger towards the first 1-3 apps. They'll tend to stay there, while other apps will have that much harder a time to move up.

I LOVE that screenshots are more visible. It's great for users, and it's great for quality apps. I have a great app currently ranking in the lower range of top 10 for my targeted keyword, and slowly moving up because - in my opinion at least - it's higher quality than the apps above. Great icon, great screenshots, app looks and behaves great. So you'd think I'd be ecstatic about this change.

Actually, I'm worried this change will stop my app dead in its tracks, and further consolidate the top 1-3 positions. Can you explain to me how that's good for either of users, developers, or competition?
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Another reason could be that many startups create a product that scratches an itch. They were looking for something as a consumer, didn't find it and started a company to create that something. In this scenario most products and services will probably be consumer targeted.

Also, few enterprise level companies are prepared to buy from small and/or new companies. So, why bother?
I know it's been said before, but there's a one word answer: Nexus. The current Nexus is getting long in the tooth, but I'd still recommend a Galaxy Nexus over an S3 or 1X. The fact that it's half the price off contract makes this easier.
Interesting. I use a regular GPS with the maps of OpenFietsMap. It's mostly accurate, and pretty awesome.
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There was never an option to see cycle routes.
I wonder what the behind-the-scenes truth of this is? Apple must have known that their mapping solution wasn't ready for release.

Perhaps Google forced their hand or Google pulled the plug knowing that Apple would dump them eventually but weren't ready to do so quite yet. If so, then don't expect Google to offer a maps app for some time yet because it is to their advantage to let Apple stew.
There are pedestrian routes in some cities, but not all. I only know this because I was in San Francisco last week and I actually got offered them, whereas in London I'm SOL.
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Or, use the bing app. I am not a fan of their ux but it sure works well!
There are localization issues as well. Some place names in Turkey appear to be transferred over from legacy windows-1254 code page (e.g. Avcılar displayed as Avcýlar) Some have replacement letters for certain characters (dotless i, ş, ç, ğ). For example, "Sık orman" (dense forest) became "Sik orman" (penis forest).

Overall (at least in Turkey) the legends appear to come from an old, low quality source.
I hear stories like this all the time, but every single person I know that has an Android has very few, if any, problems (most own Samsungs or Nexus phones though). I mean to be honest, I hear a lot more complaining from the iPhone crowd, but that might be more because they expect more and things like the battery dying after 10 hours of moderate use really piss them off.
The post did not say that the item had any inherent value, it simply stated that making money from demand was a good thing. Additionally, the post qualified "As long as you abide by the law".
Thanks for the kind words, I really appreciate it. It's funny you mention the price because I thought that was a little high too. Code canyon decides on what price the items sell at, and as far as I know, the author has no control over that. Personally I was thinking maybe around four to five dollars but since commission is only 50% ill be ok with $7 :)
According to Gruber and Rafer Apple seems to have a plan : for this plan to work however, iOS users must keep using the inferior Apple maps and Google must stay away from giving them a chance to continue to use their own ones - that will make quality of Apple maps go up and Google maps go down - they will meet in 18 months.

Gotta admire people's willingness to stretch here :) But seriously I think Google will just release a Maps app for iOS sooner or later. They've done that with most of their apps - it may not be as good and functional as Android one but it doesn't have to - the bar has been lowered.
I'm not 100% sure how the plugin ecosystem on codecanyon, but I was one of the first authors on envato's tutorial marketplace and I'm still getting the odd sale here and there.

Not to say that you'll be rich, but the sheer number of users on the site (and lowish cost of each item) means you'll probably make a bit of money.

Payments come out each month and there is a limit of $50 per "withdrawl", so because I don't hit that limit very fat anymore, I just use the money in the account to buy random themes and such.
holy shit an actual solution, sans bitching, on hn. this represents a dangerous threat to your business model.
As a long-term Apple user/fan, I'm both incredibly disappointed and intensely optimistic with this change.

I've been using iOS6 since the first beta and saw the backlash coming. I think "Street View" is Google Maps' killer feature and no amount of "3D View" is going to replace the ability to virtually drive your route (or see the storefront, the turn you need to make, etc.).

On the other hand, Google has a habit of releasing amazingly disruptive products (maps, gmail, etc.) and then the pace of innovation of each app slows dramatically. What was the last "innovation" gmail did? Priority inbox? Buying Sparrow?

I'm optimistic this is the start of an arms race in the mapping area (Apple: please tackle email next); this needed to occur sooner rather than later. We don't know the circumstances of the switch (it seems equally likely that Google precipitated the change as Apple did) but given Apple's knack for taking a MVP and continually, doggedly improving it, I think the future is bright for iOS Mapping.
JWZ?
I have seen that one discussed often enough on forums, I believe it is the "Apple Fanboy Android".
You're assuming that one's political views should reflect one's self-interest. I think it's morally consistent to hold to principles even when they don't benefit you; it's not necessarily evidence of political trickery at work.
I'm with jhaaps on this! As a group i think our industry is very much into sharing anything and everything we have done, its like our bragging rights even if it is just clicking a button or checking a checkbox. I dont know how many times things that are that simple take me hours to find only to find a google search post that has the answer right there for me.
The Bing iOS app has transit and good mapping features. I'm surprised folks aren't using that as an alternative.
on battery life, i get anywhere from 1.5 to 3 days on my HSPA+ nexus (from play store) the way i use it. definitely have never sweated getting through a day.

* fair amount of web browsing

* little or no media or games

* heavy twitter, fairly heavy facebook

* 50+ SMS/gvoice messages per day

* 50+ emails a day

* ~1-2 hours of phone

* ~30 mins of tethering a day

coming from an iphone myself i was worried about battery life on the nexus, but it actually does better than my iphone did.
The logic behind creating an MVP doesn't really make sense when the market for the product isn't competitive.

Apple didn't offer their mapping solution as an option in the App Store to judge interest; they forced anyone who buys new or upgrades for any reason to use it.
It does this on mine (I haven't done turn-by-turn on iOS6 final, but when I was on the betas, it performed as expected)
Why would Apple allow a native iOS maps app by Google, that competes with their core Maps app, in the AppStore?
+1.

All of Michio Kaku's physics books are pretty solid, even if there's a bit of overlap among them. "Physics of the Future," for instance, is a decent examination of what he believes will actually be realized in 10, 20, 100, 1000, etc., years. It's a good companion piece to "Impossible."
How are you getting updates for projects you've starred?
I don't agree with that. I mean, let's be practical here, movies are there to make money. If a movie has a budget of 25 k, you need ~50 k people willing to pay 1 euro to watch it to make already a decent margin. Then, after a while, you sell downloads withouth DRM and you make another nice profit.

Other than that, a studio should offer: actors easy to reach to (maybe on a wage?), shooting gear, special effects experts, etc. Lots of this things would lower the entry barriers for movies a LOT.
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You can write a whole PhD thesis about it. Basically it is a result of a 2+ year research project how to detect differences that are relevant to people. In fact the computers find a lot more differences when you compare pixel-by-pixel. The keywords are machine vision, artificial intelligence, machine learning.

The hardest part of working out the right balance of what to detect was to make the algorithm less picky without losing an eye for detail.

We've benchmarked the algorithm against professional layout testers and the fault detection quality is on the same level with them.
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In re: dynamic linking.

There are some rather clever solutions to this problem that don't require the complications inherent in dynamically linked binaries.
It's easy to forget that, even on commodity hardware, Go (`gc`) compiles "Fast (tm)." -- Even for large projects.

Take a look at the Revel framework[1], it's a young project but it aimed to port the Play framework to Go.

Once you dig into the code, you can see the framework hot-loads your web-app by altering the source code of the framework (to add imports for your app) and then recompiling on the fly.

The framework can then do all sorts of things; one that I like in particular is that it seems to be able to catch panics at the top-level, and relay a nice stack-dump to the browser (in debug mode).

All the while you still have a statically linked binary running.

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tl;dr: There are other solutions to the problems dynamic linking solves, without actually using dynamic linking [2].

[1]: http://robfig.github.com/revel/
[2]: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/dynamic-linking/
As I was editing this article, I was thinking the same thing myself. My guess is, it would be pretty tricky to turn a profit: movies like Primer are going to be rare.

But maybe you could get the formula right? Find filmmakers with collaborative attitudes, and put them together to coach them on film making (and marketing).
Thanks iuguy! Glad you enjoyed it.
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In that case, I'll have a demo up late this afternoon or tonight. Thanks for the suggestion!
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True, but it does protect me against generic GMail phishing -- they'd have to specifically target me.
> Does he actually explain what the $56K will be used for?

Yes, explains what needs to be done in the video:

1. Visit colleagues to get more material

2. Commission graphics and artwork

3. Prepare a good book proposal for publishers

Regarding (1), I suppose the biggest objection is that he can just talk to people using some kind of telecommunications tech, but 'face time'[1] offers so much higher bandwidth for stuff like this.

[1] not FaceTime
Said it in another thread. maps.google.com in iOS. Bookmark to home screen.

To the people talking about this is a sign of Steve Jobs being gone. I'm sure he had his hand in wanting to get away from Google Maps. These types of things were still part of his plan. AppleTV (the none hobby version) is part of his plan. We haven't seen that. There is still a trail that Steve laid down we are walking on. It's more 5-10 years from now I imagine that will lack the touch. Maybe it is fading. It's still there though. imho.
Read that as Parents... might be a good idea?
It's a product of Apple's inability to form stable B2B relationships - "adult relationships" if one enjoys snarky analogies. Contrast this to the way in which Microsoft has recently addressed Google's strength in Maps. They found someone with mutual interests. http://searchengineland.com/microsoft-and-nokia-present-unif...

Google and Apple have been unfriending each other since Schmidt resigned from Apple's board three years ago. A jilted Apple is again "looking and feeling" for reasons to drag the ex who cheated on them into court. Heck, in Samsung, they are even treating one of their current "friends with benefits" like an ex.

TomTom's response, "We are a paid escort service, you can find us in the phonebook."
Is this in the app store or what?
TomTom has been powering GPSs for years, someone would have noticed if the data was as bad as this before. And even if they hadn't (which they didn't because their data is fine), Apple should have. Whichever way you slice it, the buck stops with Apple, the biggest and richest company in the world and their world renowned eye for detail and software development competency.
A fraction of the time?

Apple took data from 3rd parties (Yelp, TomTom, and many others) and integrated it all together with their own Maps app.

Google has a lot more features than Apple right now, and a large part of their data is sourced from their own works. Streetview gives them good road data. Local gives them all the data that yelp has (and then some).

Apple's Maps is probably where goole was with maps back in 2007 or 2008.
from what i've seen, the real issue is probably the text parsing algorithms need work. I tried a few addresses - about 70% were correct. the ones that weren't just seemed like the algorithm wasn't recognizing town, state, etc
They already allow turn-by-turn navigation apps, and allow applications for GMail, Chrome (thought they don't get the full baked in system feel). For the most part the duplicated functionality requirements aren't as strict as they were from 2008-2010.

I think they'll definitely allow a Maps app from Google if they submit one. I also think that Google very likely wanted more updates and possibly more money for their map data. Apple likely viewed this as something that was always going to be painful but something they needed to just do and get behind them. I also wonder/hope/suspect that they may already be adding more data based on reports of landmarks that weren't appearing, now appearing.

This is also a nice point: http://blog.lumatic.com/post/31863865686/ive-been-using-ios-... Usage data is what improves maps, which they'll now have a lot of. Though I am surprised they haven't picked a better provider then just TomTom, perhaps that's also in the works.
Or on an encrypted server, like the "secure notes" feature of LastPass.
Also every 3rd party app using MapKit is stuck with Apple's maps. Google would need to release a GoogleMapKit iOS-Library for 3rd Party apps. iOS limitations are really showing now, it
's so disappointing to see Apple making things worse (new Maps, new AppStore), without providing proper 3rd party access to core functions and better cross-app communication. Instead of getting baked-in Facebook-Sharing with iOS 6, they should've made that an API, something every service can plug into, like Android's Sharing System. It's a shame, the hardware is so awesome, but the software is going down the drain, it desperately needs to be opened up more. For the record, the iPhone is now the only modern device I know of, that you can't access Google StreetView. No app, not through Safari, you just can't. I think it should be clear that something is wrong, when such an advanced device, can't do something as simple as that.
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I find the new maps app really good, one of the best driving direction apps I've seen. It is an improvement over waze in UI and the enhance backgrounding is awesome.

Maybe not as feature rich as some of the alternatives, but what do you expect in a v1? They will iterate, though the yearly releases means it will take time but it will get there. In the mean time the app store provides a lot of options for users to replace lost functionality.
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To be honest if I were starting again today I would not have used java except for performance limited jobs exposed as web services. Even those I would be tempted to write in Go. I may have used it for interfacing with some of the archaic XML APIs I have to interface with, JAXB does a good job with dealing with shenanigans in the format I've found.

That said to get to your question, I don't have experience with either at the same scale as the EE6 app. I have fiddled with both some to get a feel as I was deciding what the path away from the EE6 stuff I would take. I have ditched hibernate for Ebean (Ebean is the ORM that comes with Play). I've also started writing most of the controllers in Groovy, which comes from messing with grails. Both these changes have been awesome and significantly simplified the project.
The problem is that these are exactly the kinds of replies given by Linux advocates throughout the years. I've used unix varieties for more than 20 years and never experiences like this for anything, ever. Nothing is totally supported, or works right away. Ever. At least not in the way a Mac user would employ those descriptions.
Why wouldn't they? In the App Store there are all sorts of browsers that compete with Safari (I know that they still have to use the built in WebView, but still), mail apps (including Gmail), that compete with Mail, camera apps that compete with the Camera app, to-do lost apps that compete with Reminders, and even many existing navigation apps, etc.

There's no reason it wouldn't be allowed in if Google complies with the guidelines...
As long as there are computer science students.
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Indeed -- the page seems broken even when I enable top-level Javascript. Whatever happened to just using HTML to present your ideas?
I can only speak for my setup (I have Embark NYC installed), but the new Maps app delegates transit routing to Embark NYC. Presumably this works for other cities?
No, since the Replicator 2 can only extrude a single filament at a time, and that tractor has more than one color, it must have been assembled afterward. The Replicator 2X is the model with a dual extruder: http://store.makerbot.com/replicator2x.html
I agree, but I'm trying to do this more from an angle of a production company than a studio. This first movie is to get the ball rolling, use it as leverage to raise money for the next, stay lean to make a profit and the get bigger and better each time. If it would eventually lead to a 'studio' set up as opposed to a 'production company' great! But right now I'm focusing on making great movies.
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- Basecamp [http://basecamp.com] (for Project Management)

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If you're talking about movies as an industry then that's different, but if you're talking about finding great work like Primer or Herzog's documentaries, throwing money at filmmakers isn't going to make great work and kickstarter-for-movies may just flood us with more mediocre product that doesn't follow through on the director/writer's promise. You can't make a movie with a community controlling the outcome: you need absolute creative control to make a good film.

Shooting gear, special fx: these things are already so inexpensive compared to 10 years ago that having a nice HD camera and lenses and access to After Effects isn't stopping anyone. I've got friends making films after hours and on the weekends because they decided a long time ago it's what they wanted to do, and they'll keep doing it until they make that one beautiful, promising piece.

You just can't kick-starter this: good work happens serependitiously, not because of a bigger budget.
Let me know what you think when you (finally) see it :)
So far for me yes. Interestingly enough since I live in DC - I never had transit directions in Google Maps anyway.
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this is what I do now at work. It has totally changed the way I do development. Instead of having a "build farm" or separate box to run continual tests on it's all in the same machine. SSHFS makes a world of difference too.
Depends entirely on how the data is being used, what set of data they're using and so on. I've found that Maps is fine for driving instructions in my area of North East England, but that Walking directions are occasionally missing or not quite right.
This seems to be recurring theme for coders: work from home, get fat, try to find a quick way to lose this fat.

I wonder if this has something to do with the hacker culture, searching for smart (and quick) ways to achieve a result.
Try HTTP://bigv.io if you are UK based.
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I have an Android device and I really don't like it. It's a Nexus.

Oh, and to be honest as well, I don't hear many complaints from the iPhone crowd.
Is my impression right: Apple stops to be cool!

Now that Apple becomes vastly popular with everybody, hackers, early adopters and other trendsetters start bashing Apple and look for different stuff. The parent post is only one in a growing number of others.
yes! this was a big deal to me when it came out. I don't know why more people didn't go for this type of indie sci-fi type films. If you consider it sci-fi. Regardless, great movie with such a small budget.
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I would be trivial to use real torrents, but I could easily get into a significant amount of trouble if I hosted up real torrent files though. Magnet links are just a link, nothing more. It wouldn't help anyone if I was taken down. I'm hosting this in the USA on a linode at the moment.
Do you think Apple would have any chance in an arms race over Search with Google? If the answer is no, why do you think Apple has any chance in Maps?
I've never done any type of film making. I suspect from my attempts at photography and writing (and my reading about them), that the first, most cost effective investment would be hiring a professional editor to put the final film together.
The amazing thing for me is that the Google Maps App on my original iPhone 3G was way better than this new one.