Apple CEO apologises for iOS maps, suggests iPhone users try Bing
Apple CEO apologises for iOS maps, suggests iPhone users try Bing
28th Sep 2012 4:27pm | By Editor It’s not easy sitting at the top of the tree, because when you get it wrong, everyone notices and jumps on you – as Apple found out with the disastrous release of their recent maps app.
It was supposed to be the latest, market-conquering app from Apple, to coincide with the release of iOS6, for iPad, iPod and iPhone.
Yet the new map app had some serious glitches, such as losing whole towns, misplacing buildings (in the middle of rivers and seas), and jumbling up data such as store locations, opening hours and such to provide an unusable product.
Humans tend to take their habits for granted. Everything seems self-evident until the perspective shifts. It forces us to reflect on the way we are: humans are not all sunshine and rainbows, as the saying goes. We also have a darker side that we prefer to be swept under the rug.
Barbara Daniels has a calling to reveal these dark things that people do. She shifts the perspective by swapping roles of humans and animals, which in turn raises our awareness of how we behave with other animals, which is brutal and unethical most of the time. There s much room to grow for our species. Her illustrations are a sobering reminder that our society is far from perfect. Though we tend to admire the progress of our own species, we tend to forget that we did it at the price of others.
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We looked at natural population changes within the US, or the difference between births and deaths.
The above map shows which counties saw more births than deaths and vice versa from 2019 to 2020.
Recently released data from the Census Bureau shows which places in the United States had more births or more deaths between 2019 and 2020.
Last week s release of county-level data included 2020 population estimates, net domestic migration estimates, and net international migration estimates. This new dataset also included the natural population change from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020, or the difference between births and deaths in a county during that time. This means the data covers part of last year when COVID-19 started to spread throughout the US.
In 1855, renovation work was being carried out on Bishop Audley’s Chantry, a cathedral in England, when something very strange was found languishing away in the darkness beneath the floor. It was a sheet of vellum, or calf skin, measuring about five feet long and four and a half feet wide, and although faded and damaged, when it was examined and restored it was found to be a medieval world map of some sort, one of the largest ever seen. But this was no ordinary map, as upon its sprawling face were many strange features and wonders that have inspired much discussion to this day and has made what has come to be known as the Hereford Mappa Mundi one of the weirdest and most mysterious maps ever found, as well as one of the most significant historical maps in the world.