Daniel and Manton talk about the Waze navigation app and Apple’s missed opportunity in not acquiring it, the risks of pre-announcing release dates, and how to balance attention to detail with shipping the darned 1.0.
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- Waze – Innovative navigation app that captures live feedback from its network of users.
- Outsmarting Traffic Together – Google’s June, 2013 blog announcement about its acquisition of Waze.
- Topsy – Social web search engine recently acquired by Apple.
- Apple E.g. – Scant reference to one of Apple’s previous ventures in search.
- Lucene – Search product by Doug Cutting that came out of Apple’s V-Twin technologies.
- Coming this November – Product teaser page for Manton’s forthcoming Sunlit app.
- Jonathan Hays – Manton’s partner in the development of Sunlit.
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