Then he asked if I had seen the stock price since the new Map App was introduced.
If Steve Jobs were still alive, would the new map application on the iPhone 5 be such an unmitigated disaster?
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The new map was innovative in showing timed walking routes broken into segments of five-minutes between key transit stations, intersections and attractions in Boston.
Meanwhile, Dutch satellite navigation company TomTom, which provided the data for the new map system, told CNN it is not responsible for the way the maps work.
All iPhone and iPad users are now forced to use the new map system when they update their software or buy the iPhone 5, which will come pre-loaded with the maps.
And some Twitter users pointed out the irony in that the new map system was unable to pinpoint an Apple store in Sydney, Australia, which it placed on the wrong side of the road.
The new map is a smart byproduct of the European Space Agency (Esa) telescope's main mission which is to survey the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB - a pervasive but faint glow of long-wavelength radiation that comes to us from the very edge of the observable Universe.
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The row over plans to cut the number of MPs from Wales by a quarter is as predictable as night following day, although the reaction to the new boundaries is rather more muted than some past predictions that the new map would destroy civilisation as we know it (I paraphrase).
Areas highlighted on the map in red showcase the highest number of venues that serve a particular drink, and as the New York map above illustrates, Bud Light is by far the most prevalent beer across New York City.
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The new genetic map should bolster research into a number of diseases whose onset is associated with a combination of genetic predisposition and changes to the body's roster of bacteria.
If you follow a road, the M1 for example, along its length, the map will automatically load new crash locations as fresh sections of the map are loaded.
This is your rollout of the new product offerings, business model updates, and process changes to map to the new understanding of the customer buying process.
Mr. Holloway and Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Linda Gibbs introduced the new flood-zone map Friday as part of the city's Hurricane Sandy After Action report, an overview of the emergency response to one of the worst storms in New York City's history.
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Just like recent moves with Congressional redistricting, a review of the new Electoral College map shows how many Americans are moving to states that offer certain advantages.
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The new Brain Activity Map project hopes to understand and classify every signal from every cell in our grey matter, identifying where everything from thoughts, feelings and inspiration originate -- at a level beyond anything currently underway.
Inventive CIOs can and will make sure that the delivery of fresh and cooked food to the right points on the map can happen in new ways.
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However, Bauer later admitted as we drove down the steep, rocky road, back into the valley, that the most important thing is to educate wine drinkers on the basics: Where New Zealand is on the world map, where Central Otago is and what wines are produced there.
Researchers hope the cache of new drug targets from decoding the map of all 30, 000 human genes will rescue them, but that could be five or ten years away.
TomTom doesn't appear to be letting that spat with Encyclopaedia Britannica stop it from rolling out new GPS devices, with its new GO 720 unit making its debut today, along with the company's new "Map Share" system.
Sauvignon Blancs are all over the map from New Zealand to Santa Rita Hills, even Italy.
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The result is a new map of linguistic interweaving, of deep exchange and of mutual enrichment between two cultural areas.
The company's new Map Share system, as its name suggests, lets users make changes to maps and share 'em with others.
These surveys and other data were used to help map the new shipping lanes by showing vessel owners and federal officials where the whale grounds and shipping lanes were overlapping.
Most strikingly, Mr Gore is interested in science: his famous concern for the chemical balance of environment is matched by similar passions for the Internet, the genome map, new research on learning.
Western diplomats are now facing certain difficulties in establishing working relations with the states of the CIS. This is not surprising, since radical changes on the geopolitical map demand new conceptions and, most importantly, an unequivocal rejection of stereotypes.
Leaders of the PA, old and new, are united behind the road map and say it must be implemented and not negotiated.
Mr Bush's decision to take an active role in the new peace process has at least given the road map impetus.
The new, in-house developed map service is still young and may lack some of the more advanced features Google customers enjoy, but it does provide the basics -- interactive maps and customized overlays.
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