• Obinice
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    642 years ago

    Damn, reminds me of when they announced copy and paste was coming to their phones as if it was some incredible breakthrough, and yet everyone else had it on their phones for a long time already.

    Now they’re adding basic map features from a decade ago and have the gaul to suggest to their customers that it’s new and innovative?

    I wonder what other old, basic phone features Apple customers just don’t have. I feel sorry for them, people playing that much for a premium device deserve better.

    • GigglyBobble
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      242 years ago

      suggest to their customers that it’s new and innovative

      I’m a big Apple critic too but to be fair that message reads pretty neutral. Where do you see the claim it’s new and innovative?

      • Echo Dot
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        142 years ago

        I suppose the fact that they feel the need to announce it rather than to just do it.

        Anyway this is fairly standard operations for Apple. They did the same when they added widgets to iOS. Gee wow, guys thanks for adding a feature that has been in Android for about 20 years.

        • @[email protected]
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          132 years ago

          I mean their events are literally held to give news about updates. Revolutionary or not.

          Why would they not mention stuff people could make use of, just because it’s not some amazing new things.

          Events are rather decent to be honest, no that I look at them. But people do, so it’s very easy to get an overview over upcoming features.

          • phillaholic
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            22 years ago

            Their software feature announcements are done at their developer conference. Many times they are telling people who make apple software about features. Apple developers don’t care they Android had something first. They develop for Apple and need to know what Apple products do.

        • L3ft_F13ld!
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          32 years ago

          Honestly, if they didn’t announce it, would their users even realise it was added? As much as I dislike Apple, I feel like announcing the feature makes sense.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      You mean back in ios3 in 2009? I wonder what phones you think everyone else had back then.