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I know I should be excited for the positive innovations data science will bring us, but am I alone in mostly still finding it creepy?

Google, if you're reading this: _Please_ release your maps app for iOS. I can't upgrade to iOS 6 until you do, and switching to Android isn't an option!

I wish this guy listed the locations where these were taken - or am I missing it?

I'm not sure how useful this kind of thinking would be in actual practice. People regret the things they didn't do more than those they did? No kidding. But it's not always possible to do everything, and it seems like people who don't regret anything are either kidding themselves or have just learned to tune out regret. I remember reading that they key to a study done showing levels of happiness was mostly about managing expectations. Even hackers and captains of industry eventually have to learn this lesson.

I really like that Apple is willing to experiment and push the envelope on their corporate site. Very refreshing.

I'm really looking forward to Google rolling out their own already-announced maps app on iOS for this reason (although I have to imagine your city has dedicated apps that do public transit already, as mine does). And as far as I know the maps app already used Apple's locations database, which was noticeably worse than Google's. I keep hoping that Apple will simply realize that location is not their strength, but so far this seems unlikely.

Not much different than doing nothing about it when companies the size (and of the profit) of Apple and Samsung are the involved parties.

It almost seems that we're to a point where we just have to accept this as an industry. The frequency of outright copies seems to be increasing, and there's not much the Apples of the world can do about it. Seems like this is common place on the web too, where various design memes (the ribbon thing, etc. etc.) eventually spread to a large number of sites. Given that Apple is still making boatloads of cash, it seems like this isn't reducing their incentive to innovate.

(Not that I'm endorsing what seems to be an outright copy)

"Persecution". Nice. Let's cool it with the inflammatory rhetoric. You may not agree with Apple's legal methods in solving a dispute, but it's hardly a persecution--particularly because Samsung is suing just as much (and has already threatened to sue over LTE).

Because almost all companies (and people) inherently behave in a way that is in their own best interests. Owning critical smartphone patents is clearly in the interest of people in the smartphone business.

I typically support Apple's app store limitations, but come _on_ guys. This is almost as silly as the Mark Fiore situation.

Please stop blaming Apple and start blaming the patent system itself. Samsung would have done the exact same thing if they had those patents or came out with iPhone first.

How can you claim to say what it's all about for Apple? You are very far out of bounds to claim it's about controlling something. From my perspective it's about making devices that offer a good experience, and from their current earnings I'd say that consumers believe it to be a fair price for that experience.

Why do I have a strong feeling that this is anti-Apple blogspam? If people confuse Apple products with Samsung products, it's because Samsung wants that confusion to exist. Apple's innovations weren't "obvious" until Apple put them into their products. Please consider the criticism iPhone received for not having a keyboard or buttons back in 2007.

Kind of reads like blogspam. I'm always suspicious any time someone writes one of these 'n things to x' posts.

This site supposedly lets one do complicated trips for less than one might spend on orbitz and the like. It's essentially 21st century travel agent mixed with a competition.

I'm not sure that being less popular than normalize is worth of a sigh. A reset is still better than nothing.

Could not agree more. I'm not completely convinced that "sensible defaults" for a hacker necessarily means disabling animations, etc. We're really past the point with machine power where this sort of thing is necessary, and I can't understand the continued insistence on doing things like that. I really expected this list to relate to things like git settings, etc.

Even though I kind of wish people would not spread the gospel on this issue, since I'd like the prices to stay low, I can report that I bought 2 of these some weeks ago and really, really love the result.

Certainly one of the stranger aspects of this site. It's almost a sort of meta-game.

Seems like a decent use for iPad since we still (!?) don't have the built-in iOS app.

I'm with you here. I had to stop reading Gruber completely because I find his arrogance difficult to swallow. Marco can be pretty funny and insightful though.

I'm a little surprised that this doesn't work for Safari on a Mac, and that it gave me a splash screen telling me as much instead of even giving me a "well, it's your ass..." notice. Especially considering that Chrome apparently works.

They've learned an interesting lesson from other travel sites too, in that they emailed me when I didn't complete my contest and asked why. Very nice.

This is really already the case for some people. When I watch my mom use the web, she'll type "gmail" into google rather than typing "gmail.com".

Actually, the current Maps app uses Apple's location database as far as I know. In fact, when Apple announced the switch I noticed a significant decrease in the usefulness of searching inside the maps app.

My own usage barely strays from the default apps that Apple includes. If anything, I'd argue that Apple has done a great job with updating and keeping those relevant to what I need from my phone.

That's really unnecessary. In fact, cyclists here rarely if ever stop at stop signs. It's a very dangerous situation.

This looks like a nice idea, but I'm echoing others in wondering why this is necessary. Tools like RVM make it fairly trivial to maintain distinct versions of rails, associated gems etc.

The author might make this more compelling by sandboxing things like nginx, unicorn, etc. (in the path that MAMP and such have taken) that are a bit more of a pain to manage independently on OS X.

Thanks guys!