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Title: With iOS 9 around the corner, it's time to reroute Maps Post by: HCK on May 22, 2015, 09:00:11 am With iOS 9 around the corner, it's time to reroute Maps
<article> <section class="page"> <p> “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans.”</p><p> Those who have followed the company for any length of time know that sentence is about as close as Apple ever gets to outright confirming that it’s acquired another firm. Most recently, the company in question was Coherent Navigation (http://www.macworld.com/article/2923572/apple-buys-gps-startup-coherent-to-beef-up-mapping-technology.html), which was reportedly working on a more accurate and robust version of GPS.</p><p> In and of itself, that acquisition isn’t particularly surprising, but Apple’s purchase of Coherent isn’t an isolated event. It’s one of 10 known acquisitions by Apple in the mapping and location arena since 2009. If two is coincidence and three’s a trend, then 10 is probably in the vicinity of a smoking gun.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2925124/with-ios-9-around-the-corner-its-time-to-reroute-maps.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: With iOS 9 around the corner, it's time to reroute Maps (http://www.macworld.com/article/2925124/with-ios-9-around-the-corner-its-time-to-reroute-maps.html#tk.rss_all) |