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Well, it's known that UIWebView and Safari have their own differences between them; for example, the slower JavaScript engine in the former. I would guess that this would be one of them.
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Rumor of Google Maps for iOS 6 submission likely false
That's an astute observation; and quite amusing since it is exactly the opposite of how Android/iOS played out for them. Apple revolutionized the mobile phone experience with an astounding product and Google spent the following 4 years iterating on a copycat until they just recently closed the gap.
I'd look at it like this: A workstation is what you use when computation power and/or memory bandwidth is a limiting factor of your work. This holds true for:

- developers of software with long compilation time

- 3d animators / professional video editors

- scientists that want to run simulations

- engineers that want to run simulations

For these people, a computer is never fast enough and they get a tangible benefit for every speedup - which is why they always have the best performing gear. And the (multicore) performance of the best gear is always [CONSUMERGRADE_PC * X].

I'd set X=3 and then you have yourself a workstation. (For example 16 core Xeon vs. 4 core i5.

For that reason I don't think it really makes sense to define workstation in an absolute number of Gigaflops/Hertz/Byte. It's just the cutting edge of desktop computing that's still feasible for work (e.g. overclocked CPUs to 8Ghz with liquid nitrogen cooling don't count, neither do machines with say more than 2kW heat - that's when you need a computing cluster).
i had the opposite experience in nyc. i went on one with a few friends and the whole experience pretty lame. i regular date would have been much more fun
The article says Apple Maps is using OSM data. Is the article wrong? Or is there something they left out?
Right, of course. I meant you could have a "J' (heart) Bruxelles" in the same design and not get sued, so long as Brussells hadn't had that TMed. At least I'd hope not.
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When I first opened the iOS6 timer and the stopwatch, and saw the neon style button, I was a bit confused.

It looks very nice but I thought it broke with design patterns of iOS in terms of color scheme, ambiance, typography (all cap text label), or even button size. It felt more like an Android interface than an iOS one. Anyone feeling the same way?
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It would be cool to see this integrated with the system used in the backend at Pex for Fun (http://www.pexforfun.com/), which tries to automatically find "interesting" inputs for a function given the code.
The proposition that Jobs, or anyone, could successfully plan a strategy 3 years out in this industry is laughable. Wasn't it less than 3 years ago that Steve was telling us that people would have to file their fingertips down to use a 7" tablet?
Samsung has invested a ton of money in developing the Galaxy brand through billboards, TV ads and so on. While you can definitely argue that many of their UI elements bear a striking resemblance to Apple's, they take every opportunity to reinforce their brand name.
I don't know how Apple could expect anything less than this response. They are coming from behind with the incumbent king of maps holding a lead they couldn't possibly hope to close in a first release. Possibly not in the first several releases.

It's a hard problem. Even if you get a good source of data you still have to present it correctly to the user and the best way to fix issues is to get it into the hands of users. If you allow competing maps on the platform though the users aren't likely to use yours unless the data is at least as good and the experience is superior.

I'm not sure this was a battle they should have picked.
it's dissapointing to think it's important to I have to know somebody as opposed to just being measured against how good an opportunity I have.. however they always say the truth is hard
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As we reported earlier, users have not been impressed by Apple's all-new Maps app that comes bundled with iOS 6, which was released yesterday.
Well if it's based on this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4549792 then Kickstarter should take it down. It's a civil matter, so there's no "beyond reasonable doubt" required, and if Kickstarter are helping fund infringement, then they're on the hook too.
Look at any mapping provider: Google, Bing, Ovi/Nokia, TeleAtlas, OSM... They are ALL way better than Apple. Apple allegedly is using OSM data, yet their maps are ridiculously bad compared to OSM. Town names are missing, there are next to no terrain features at all. Even the coloring is bad (low contrast etc.)

And then there is sattelite imagery, which is sort of fine in the US. But the rest of the world is low resolution, is partly covered in clouds, badly color corrected and partly black and white.

And then there are no public transportation directives and no sensible terrain view.

Apple released a crap product. Aerials won't get better 'the more peopl euse it'. Neither will maps grow more detailed. It's not like people can collaborate to make them better.

To me, those maps seriously diminished the worth of my devices. And this response makes me want to buy an Android phone. It is frankly insulting.
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They're just disassembling in style, not hacking anything.
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Apparently you never experienced Mac OS X 10.0.
Or Mobile Me.
Or owned an iBook G3.

Steve's quality control is legendary. By that I mean a legend. By that I mean fiction. Steve killed products that didn't fit what he wanted Apple to sell -- that doesn't mean Apple had perfect QC under his watch.

Mainly, Apple has had way more success than most companies in getting a product 80% right out of the gate and not too many huge embarrassing failures - more a series of small or moderate failures.

The current Maps failures seem to be moderate but could wind up being big.
You'll get my cash as soon as I get into work.

A brilliant use for gittip - and a brilliant service from readthedocs

Please drop me a line for some corporate sponsorship talks too - would be interested my details on my profile. Cheers
How many web apps do long polling? I doubt it's many.
Same way I feel. What does it matter what your text edit looks like? It's just text. Text editing is solved for the keyboard. If you want to create something new, then do it for the touch screen.
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Totally unconvincing. Perfect. :)
In Germany, OSM maps are beautiful and extremely comprehensive. Apple maps are woefully incomplete and ugly as hell. If Apple is indeed using OSM data, they threw away half of it when creating their own maps.
To what degree are they using it? Not a large one.
Oh look, we've made over 140, does that count as HN worthy :/
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The browser, maps, and email were the core functionality and appeal of the smart phone. Two were provided by google (maps and gmail native) and the third had google search set as default.
Sorry, I don't understand the satire here. It sounds like you're mimicking the response to claims that Apple stole designs from Braun? But the two situations are nothing alike -- cribbing industrial design elements from defunct products is a far cry from duplicating a trademarked image more or less exactly.

It seems more likely you're trying to dig on Apple for going thermonuclear on trade dress while at the same time stealing somebody else's intellectual property. In which case you have it backwards, and the satire here should be something about how Apple has no right copying someone else's hard work just to make a quick buck, and that a numberless clock face with highly contrasting colors seems obvious now only because they went to so much effort to work it out.

Except that's not very funny, because it's exactly right. I doubt if even the most hardcore Apple fanatics would argue SBB doesn't at least have a case. So they'll sue, and Apple might pay a license fee, or change the clock, or argue that the clock has some reason for not being a valid trademark or infringing.

And my only question is, if that case goes to trial and SBB wins and Apple has to stop shipping that clock face and pay some compensation, will HN fill up with satirical posts ranting about how you can't copyright a minimal clock face in white, black and red, how this judgment is anticompetitive, stifling to innovation and will surely be thrown out in a higher court very soon now, how much an indictment it is of the copyright system in general?

Because that would be a funny joke. Seriously, this community has been weird about Apple of late.
True, the audience has a lot to do with it, but just because something "works" doesn't mean that it's optimal.

Take for instance, one of the 1st things many might use the site for: downloading PHP. There's a downloads page, and then there's a Windows download page, and they're both fundamentally different. It's as if you're going to a completely different site, which breaks any continuity there was to begin with. Am I even still on php.net?

Likewise, what's the utility of the tutorial[1]? It directs the user to Apache's website to download a server, even though one has been bundled with PHP for 6 months now. A server that's included by default for the sole reason of making local development easier, but they can't even keep their "newbie" tutorial up-to-date even after 6 months?

Please don't get me wrong, I'm not trying php.net is /bad/; rather, I think there's room for improvement.
Didn't deliver on destroying Facebook though, which was (generally) what backers (half-heartedly) hoped for.

Not saying they didn't succeed, just that there are similar lessons about expectations there.
It reminds me: "Why I Hate Frameworks" http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431
I wonder if they are gathering GPS traces from everyone while the map app is open and doing with OpenStreetMap does and averaging the results to build better paths.

I'm also curious if Apple contributes back to OSM when they find mistakes.
This clock is a "slavish copy" of the Swiss clock, down to the weight of each element and the presence of the red hand. You can't possibly say it's an 'homage' any more than running the Mona Lisa through a color Xerox would be.

Edit: It appears to be merely "almost" identical to the Swiss clock and instead is a slavish copy of the Austrian clock, given the weight of the minute hash marks.
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I noticed that too. Some of the issues can be fixed over time. But how is Apple going to match street view? Start their own fleet of cars driving around the city? I just tried street view (iOS 5) on iPhone and iPad and it's really awesome. So yeah claiming "the best mapping platform on any mobile platform" is BS.
And yet, apparently you didn't.

The day google maps came out was basically the last day I used mapquest.
It's probably been more than five years since I've installed a font under Windows, so I'll just hope MSFT's own tutorial answers your question:

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/truetypeinstall.mspx
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Looking at the maps for Japan on OSM and iOS 6, if they are using OSM data it must be a very small subset and they're adding a ton of crap over it.

For example: they usually have one label for a train/subway station which is well placed and then a second label for the same station 200m to the south-east. OSM has nothing like this. They must be cobbling many datasets together with no fact-checking...
> But we should never attribute to malice what can be more readily attributed to stupidity.

I don't know. On the other hand, if you leave a loophole in a system, it will be exploited; that's a basic human law. So in this case I'd guess both scenarios occur - there are so many assholepreneurs out there trying to find a way to "creatively" earn money that I wouldn't be surprised if those design scams were occuring more and more often.
> Encryption is not the same as hashing.

UPDATE: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4552358

If mrb is right, it looks like they are storing it locally without encryption, which is indeed bad.

What I had written before seeing that:

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Yes it is not. As a consequence, they are not mutually exclusive.

The title would be correct if it said, "Pandora stores encrypted passwords locally". Guess how much less interesting your post would be with that title? ;-)

They hash their passwords.
They encrypt their passwords.

I'd prefer they only did the former, but the fact that they do the former at all is NOT what most people commenting on this thread understand.
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Maps are very iterative. As someone in charge of mapping the 400 or so artists in Somerville Ma, I can say the first couple years we tried google maps, it was decent, yet imperfect. It gets better every year, but there were still some addresses that it put in the wrong place up to last year when it finally got the addresses right.

Getting good maps takes a lot of time, it will take years for Apple and they might never be as good as google at it. But competition is good for all as it raises the bar. It seems to have some interesting feature like telling you if a restaurant is open graphically.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/09/review-ios-6-gets-the-s...

Amazing how we've become so dependent on mobile maps.
Only when the comment is indeed intended to be a sarcasm. If you want to mark the comment sarcasm you have plenty of methods, e.g. </sarcasm>.
Apple didn't have to top Google, or even equal them. All they had to do was come out with a competent product.

There were several options:

1) Realize that they weren't ready, suck it up, and negotiate with Google to keep their map as the primary product, until they were ready.

2) Decide that, strategically, they couldn't go with Google, so they would use some other third party - Bing, for instance, has some nice maps - but I'm sure those who know more than me could identify the partner would have been appropriate. They could have used this time to develop their mapping platform.

But, they decided to go with the third option:

3) Try to build a mapping platform before they were ready to, and deliver an inferior product to their customers, albeit with some flashy "3D building" touring.

They put the icing on the cake before the substances was ready.

Now, ironically - I'm personally in no way effected. Living in the Bay Area, everything that I want from a mapping product right now is there. I quite like the IOS 6 product.

But, it doesn't stop me from noting that Apple delivered a sub-optimal product, when they had the choice to do otherwise. It seems to be the blind-spot in their DNA - they are able to build great physical products, and competent operating systems - but web services continue to be a challenge for them to bring the same fit and finish to.
No, it's not cowardice. It's about being discreet. Though I agree with another poster in this subthread: just ask everyone's phone numbers (if the group is small enough).
Its not a rip off.

Apple is doing great service by redesigning the Swiss clock design.

In fact the watch manufacturer is to blame for badly designing the watch before its time.

Apple is doing great service to humanity by redesigning this clock to its right position in the world they must be rewarded for it. Swiss clock maker must be punished for badly designing this watch which is rightly fully Apple's, stolen by this maker before its time.
I see __USE_EXISTING__. I promise that's not my password, either. It seems that the server interprets this as an implication that it should keep your existing password. So I would expect if it's ever using a different value on the client, it's an accident, because this feature implies there's no reason for the client to ever save the password (not that there's a valid reason to do that anyway).

That is, unless I'm actually seeing this after they've patched the issue?
Agreed. The atomization via increasing amplitude is interesting enough.

I'd be nice if the title could be corrected to something less link-baity and immature, and more accurate.
This is very strange...

If the browser only opens one connection to a domain at once, it should have made so many sites much slower to load and it's hard to believe Apple don't have automated tests to check for performance regressions like that.
> Over the last couple of months I’ve watched the unfolding drama of TextMate lovers scrambling to find a replacement after it was open-sourced, and presumed abandoned.

Say again? Open-sourcing equals abandonment? This outlook may come as a surprise to the growing open-source world. So, on the basis of this reasoning, Linux has been abandoned? How about LibreOffice, the open-source office suite, which happens to include a pretty good word processor? It's such a shame that it and Linux have no future -- after all, they're open source, "and presumed abandoned."
This is strange. I've never been a Mac person. I've built and modded PCs since I was a teenager. I didn't really remember the Cube and have googled it just now.

(back in the day Macs were for oldies who didn't know what the hell they were doing on a computer so Apple products didn't really register with me at the time)

My first impressions are that it looks like a plastic rubbish bin.

I always loved the G5 tower though.
Speaking as an Apple hater: so what? Apple should be allowed to use said design, as should anybody.
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Isn't that what dilution of trade dress is?
Perfectly valid criticisms. I actually agree with yours, especially with the (over)use of orange. But I still wouldn't call it "horrid".

I didn't mean to sound like I was dismissing hermanhermitage's opinion. But by just calling the design horrid and the OP a troll without specifics, he falls into the same "this is bad and that is good" trap.

As a wannabe-designer I am legitimately curious what hermanhermitage doesn't like about the OP's site. I've seen much worse.

As for the OP misunderstanding the primary users of programming languages' websites, that seems to be part and parcel of some designers, isn't it?
Funny, but a one connection at a time restriction would break gifsockets just like long polling.
Destroying Facebook was never what they promised. They promised an alternative. What they delivered was in line with the amount of funding they received.
You could probably expect to get a C&D letter from NY State for designing a logo like that. At least, plenty of other people have. Google for "i heart nyc trademark infringement" and read the top few links. Apparently they have sent out over 3000 such requests since registering the mark.

Sometimes the claims of infringement are upheld, sometimes not. The more important thing, legally, is that NY needs to show that they are actively defending the mark to prevent trademark dilution.
Perhaps a name change would be advantageous, especially to avoid confusion with Groupon.
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> I know why it is different on each system, it is because the numeric user ID is encoded in it.

Yes, this is what I was saying.

> I am 99% sure I am right, all the fields/values are merely obfuscated with a constant key. Not proper encryption at all.

Okay, so if I tell you my key for the field is: bc673ea54a2b7153aaafbf178e9b0892e1f2e56be5aaa5a7, can you discern my key? I'm betting not.

First, this is indeed obfuscation. There undoubtedly is a constant key. The point is merely to make it difficult for an attacker to automate an attack with "grab the attribute with key X". It's possible these attributes are HMAC's of the attribute name + a randomly generated secret, which is actually a pretty good use of encryption under the circumstances. It's certainly miles beyond what most other sites use, and makes attacks against the HTML5 a waste of time (way better to go after the elements in the DOM, which have constant names).
The big problem is the movie-themed sets where all the children do is reconstruct scenes from a movie, instead of using their imagination to create novel scenes.
the satire here should be something about how Apple has no right copying someone else's hard work just to make a quick buck, and that a numberless clock face with highly contrasting colors seems obvious now only because they went to so much effort to work it out.

There's nothing satirical about that. It's pretty obvious this is about perceived hypocrisy on Apple's part. Apple sues for trade dress violations and has now been caught for reproducing someone else's design. It acted against what it perceived as a crime against itself and yet committed the same crime. Simple hypocrisy, aka moral inconsistency in actions - nothing weird about it.

If SBB wins, the natural response will be to nod and say Apple got its just deserts. Some people will argue these designs shouldn't be copyrightable in the first place, but that's a separate criticism and does not invalidate the point of hypocrisy in the first place.

(Does it really surprise you that some in the community aren't happy about Apple's win over the patents?)
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The 3D flyover actually is hugely useful, more so than street view in my opinion, when trying to figure out one's way through the layout of streets in a metropolis.
Looks like without Jobs at the helm, quality and customer satisfaction began suffering almost immediately.
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I suspect that the real target is photo realistic renderings. I mean, one of the meanings of "rendering" is a drawing. I doubt they will have a problem with a patent-style sketch showing what the product is intended to be.
People probably feel that it is hypocritical to sue one company for copying your designs, and then turn around and copy designs off someone else, especially when they happen right a few months apart.

Personally, my moral compass immediately feels that this is worse than just plain copying, and I assume that is why people are reacting with a stronger anti-Apple sentiment here.
>The moment I diverged from its route, without me doing anything, it replotted a new route, and then a series of new routes as I ignored those directions, until I got to Roosevelt and followed its directions the rest of the way there --- which were much better than the route I would have taken.

That's how every directions' app is working. You are seriously impressed about that?
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I didn't remember it because it didn't happen (parse the original sentence a little more carefully :-)
Let's hope a court gets them screwed with their own medicine.
> Update 04:49 UTC: I am done reverse-engineering Pandora's javascript code!

Good job!

> This is not a huge flaw, but they should certainly not store sensitive data like the user's password in the local storage.

Well, if it was properly encrypted, I'd disagree with you, but since it isn't, I'm not going to quibble.

Out of curiosity, how do you know the key is static, and not per account? Did you test with two accounts?