Comment Re:Well (Score 1) 1009
And modded to run in a dual mobo. At least 'til BP6 arrived.
Last I heard, TSMC only manufactures ICs for companies; they don't do design work. Apple could potentially hire someone to design replacement microprocessors and build them at TSMC, but it could be an uphill battle with all of the patent landmines they could run into.
If you had checked the list of Apple M&A, you'd found that Apple already owns P.A. Semi and plans to make their own chips at TSMC or GF (less likely).
There are three companies. Google (from streetview data), Tele Atlas (Nokia) and Navteq (TomTom).
Every GPS provider runs to Nokia or TomTom for mapping data.
In fact, for a period of time Google's maps were awful - the first when they switched from Navteq to Tele Atlas, and the biggest one happened around 2009-2010 when Google decided to dump Tele Atlas whereever possible and go with their own streetview data. Hilarity includes the traditional ones - typos in names (street, town/city), odd mismatched maps, etc.
Of course, it's faster for Google to update their map data as they just have to update their maps directly. When they license Tele Atlas, they have to send the request to Tele Atlas and then wait for it to update (Navteq and Tele-Atlas only update once a quarter or so).
Of course, Google STILL hasn't got my old house address up (never mind my new one), despite numerous attempts at requesting they fix it. (The streets are there, but they're unlabelled).
The reason they are unlabelled is the they were added to the database from users sharing GPS information using Google's Location Services. When there is major road construction requiring the traffic to detour using temporary roads, Google's servers notice that most of those who uses Google Navigate makes a detour passing a certain spot, Google will update the maps with the new detour.
I saw this happen when they built a new railway bridge over the E45 here in Gothenburg. The new bridge allowed them to straighten the four lane road. E45 made a S-curve, passing under the old bridge. (Nowadays they can make bridges with longer spans in places with unstable ground. The Göta River valley contains loads of quick clay, which become a liquid (liquefaction) if the clay is waterlogged and are subjected to vibrations. Land slides are the usual result.) When they were building the new bridge, they had to move the road between the pillars of the old bridge, which were still in use, and the pillars of the new one so the S-curve became sharper. A month later Google Maps had updated to match the temporary road. And when they opened the new stretch, Google Navigation expected me to turn sharp right and then sharp left.
Also, it uses the same shared GPS data to place the numbering of the houses along the road correctly. My dad lives on number 8 on his rural little road so I enter number 8 when I navigate to his home. (I use Google Navigate to show traffic info for the route I've chosen) After a while Google Maps put the number at the place where I usually park my car when I'm visiting dad (and exits the navigation app). Which is the correct place, the driveway, the north corner of his property and not the east corner, that Navteq and Tele Atlas still believes is the proper corner.
So there you have it, you'll have to wait until enough people have navigated into that part of the world and then exited the app in the correct place so Google can mine the data for the correct street names...
To do nothing is to be nothing.
