Why does Apple Insider continually use "Google" in this story instead of Motorola Mobility. Yes, Google owns them but they are still their own entity. It's silly to suggest that since a company owns another company that they oversee everything that company does. I think it's fair to say "Google's Motorola Mobility", but if you just read this article you would think that Google itself was behind the advertising campaign.
Have you never worked for a large corporation that owned or was owned by another entity. I have and I can tell you that while we were owned by someone else we still operated as an individual company. Their may have been some changes, but day to day operations were very much unchanged.
Just because a piece of land doesn't have a building on it (even if it isn't currently legally buildable) doesn't mean its address "doesn't exist". New York City is glad to point you at the address:
http://gis.nyc.gov/dcp/at/f1.jsp?submit=true&house_nbr=3...
Errata to the writer: the hotel name you could not locate in Sapporo is written in kana, specifically katakana, one of the four distinct alphabet and glyph systems the Japanese written language requires.
Only the name of the city of Sapporo is written in kanji as you suggest.
Are we sure the Apple hasn't fixed this since the release? I know people were complaining about getting sent to Brooklyn for what should be Manhattan addresses.
>So why would anyone actually be "looking for 315 E 15th" in New York? The only reasonable reason would be to locate an actual address that does exist in Brooklyn
I'd be really surprised if Apple is checking whether particular street numbers are assigned when it is finding their location. That seems very dependent on iffy data. In fact, I just checked it, and it will gladly locate an address past the last number on a street, and just put the number at the end. (If you get really crazy with the number, it will say 'Approximate Location') Google does the same thing.
Why fake a location on a flawed map?
Was the goal just to get caught in doing that? It seems a bit silly to do something like that since Apple Maps is in such a bad shape.
Because other manufacturers complained of deceptive practices in advertising when Apple would talk of how easy (and quick) it was to do something on the iPhone compared to other phones...
Actually that message was present long before Apple was popular. Digital images are always super-imposed onto devices after filming because the camera picks up the actual device screen as somewhat washed out.
I do love the anti-Apple explanation you have concocted from thin air though. Plausible enough that some might buy it. However most on HN won't buy it because they aren't 12.
Sorry, you're altering to your entire point from start to finish with this 'minor' correction? Had you actually said "Sequences shortened" I wouldn't have replied. However you didn't. You said: "Sequences and screen images simulated" a different phrase that appears in ALL commercials that show a screen on camera.
> But nice pro-Apple shilling to make me sound like the bad guy.
Two ways to look at this:
1. Either you intentionally lied, so you're just a prick trying in vain to save some face.
2. It was a genuine mistake, in which case bravo on this humble concession.
"Sorry, you're altering to your entire point from start to finish with this 'minor' correction?"
Granted, I can see your point, definitely.
The next sentence in my original post, though, referred directly to my intent: complaints that the ad deceived as to how "easy (and quick) it was to do something on the iPhone" versus reality.