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by mayneack 5017 days ago
How does apple expect to beat this now?
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enraged_camel 5017 days ago
Low Earth orbit panoramas.
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cryptoz 5017 days ago
Apple's 2011 net income significantly exceeded NASA's budget (About $25 billion to $18 billion). Orbital panoramas shouldn't be out of their reach.
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hcarvalhoalves 5017 days ago
The difference is that Apple is a for-profit company so they have to reinvest a portion of that back into the company, while NASA can - in fact, should - spend the entire budget :)
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cryptoz 5017 days ago
For sure - I wasn't advocating that Apple devote most resources to space travel, science and exploration. Just that they could afford to buy a launch or two from SpaceX like NASA does. It may even be in their financial interest to put up their own satellites with high-res cameras and telescopes. Mac desktop background images are celestial objects already. "Our latest innovation. Our best work. From Space."

Plus we know that Apple Maps could use a little help.

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