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Google launches Uber rival RideWith
I don't follow the question. Why doesn't Walmart?
minthd
on July 6, 2015
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Apple(and Google) has unique advantages as the owners of the major platforms, and and major mapping apps, with access to all travel data. Those are major building blocks of such a travel service.
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Mapping data isn't travel data. One is useful for representing the world, the other is only useful for marketing data.
dylanjermiah
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What access does Apple have to travel data?
minthd
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It has access to all the location data of each of it's users.
untog
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Except that they've made a big deal lately of differentiating themselves from Google by
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using your data.
dylanjermiah
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That's what I thought, unsure if it's true. But Tim Cook was making a big deal about the lack of data collection.
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