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1. Kniesoor 31 mei 2014 09:22

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   Overigens verwacht ik niet dat Apple Tom Tom dit jaar (en misschien ook zelfs wel volgende jaren) overneemt. Waarom zouden ze dat doen?
   
   Apple weet net zo goed als wij dat ze TT niet voor € 10.- kunnen overnemen; de grootaandeel houders gaan hier absoluut niet mee akkoord. Ze zullen dus met een veel beter/hoger bod moeten komen. Maar waarom zouden ze dat nu al doen?
   
   Kunnen ze beter nog eerst even afwachten hoe de Q2 (en Q3, Q4) cijfers van TomTom zullen zijn, hoe realtime maps het gaat doen en nog een paar van dat soort zaken. Dan hebben ze meer zekerheid over de toekomst van TT dan nu het geval is en kunnen ze ook veel beter naar hun eigen aandeelhouders uitleggen waarom ze een bod gaan doen dat aanmerkelijk hoger ligt dan de beurskoers van TT op dat moment (er van uitgaande dat deze niet explodeert).
   
   Bovenstaande kan versneld worden door twee items:
   1. Als Apple gaat betalen voor geleverde diensten van TomTom waardoor er een inverdienmodel ontstaat als ze TT overnemen.
   2. Als de koers van TT in de loop van dit jaar omhoog schiet als gevolg van zeer goede Q2/Q3/Q4 cijfers. Op dit moment lijkt dit niet logisch maar kijk om je heen naar aandelen als USG en Aperam. In no time (6-9 maanden) schieten ze meer dan 100% omhoog.
   
   Parallel aan bovenstaande spelen er natuurlijk nog veel meer zaken zoals exit door de groot aandeelhouders zelf, overname door andere partij als Apple, belangen van grote partijen die wij niet kennen etc. Maar het blijft speculatie/koffie dik kijken/glazen bol en er is niemand die het weet.
   
   Ik wens jullie een fijn weekend en tot volgende week.
2. Balimoney 31 mei 2014 09:52

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   Find My Mac Friends
   
   Find My Friends has proved to be a useful tool on iOS, so why can't we have it on the Mac?
   
   We’ve seen a lot of iOS apps make the jump to OS X—most recently iBooks and Maps—and Find My Friends is one more we’d like to see join that exclusive club. Apple’s app for letting us share our locations with our friends and family often has proved to be a useful one, and we’d like to have access to it on our desktop as well. Besides being able to check in on folks’ location from our Mac, we’d love the ability to get notifications when any of our Find My Friends geofences are triggered—just in case we don’t have our iOS devices close at hand. At the very least, a Web interface on the iCloud site would go a long way to assuaging this particular need.
4. [verwijderd] 31 mei 2014 10:05

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   Maps
   We could write an entire article on changes and improvements we’d like to see in Maps, but we’ll focus on a few of our biggest complaints. The first is, as you might guess, accuracy. Though Maps has improved dramatically since its inauspicious debut, we’re still frustrated by how often map data is incorrect, especially when it comes to businesses and points of interest. For example, a fellow Macworld editor noted that on a recent trip, Maps claimed that the closest 76 gas station was 15 miles away, even though there was one less than a mile from his current location. And every Macworld editor has at one time or another tried to follow a Maps route only to discover that it couldn’t actually be followed, or to realize that they’d been taken to the wrong place.
   
   Even more worrisome is that this isn’t just an issue of Apple licensing map data that’s inferior to what other vendors are using, or using that data incorrectly. The Maps app provides a way to report incorrect map data, but users have found that map errors reported years ago—many of them multiple times—have never been corrected. We’d like to see Apple improve its map data, devote more attention to user-submitted corrections, and tweak Maps to use that data better.
   
   ios 7 maps low contrast landscape
   Good luck trying to make sense of these streets and street names if you’re driving with daylight anywhere near the screen.
   Maps could use a visual makeover, as well, especially when it comes to map presentation. Although Apple has improved the readability of maps over the past year or so—most notably by adding a night mode—it can still be frustrating to use Maps in the car for anything other than listening to voice directions. For example, contrast is poor in both day and night modes—if it’s bright outside, day mode makes it hard to even differentiate between streets and the surrounding areas. And street labels are either hidden or too small to read, even if you zoom in, at times making Maps nearly useless for on-the-fly navigation.
   
   We’d also like to see better integration of traffic data with routes. If there’s an accident or other issue that’s slowing traffic on your route, many other map apps will tweak the route to get you around it, if possible. Until Maps includes such a feature, we often turn to “real” navigation apps, such as Navigon, for longer trips or when driving in unfamiliar areas.
   
   Of course, like many people, we’d like Apple to add transit directions, rather than dumping us off to a third-party app. And though it’s not a must-have, it would be nice to be able to see elevations in maps and routes.
   
   Finally, a big frustration with Maps is that if you’re out of Wi-Fi or mobile-data range, the app often doesn’t work at all. Your iPhone (or GPS-equipped iPad) has the hardware to roughly determine your location without a data connection, but often can’t. And even when it can, it can’t actually obtain and display, well, a map without a data connection. A recent update to Google’s Maps app brought downloadable maps for just such situations. We’d like to see Apple’s offering do the same.
5. [verwijderd] 31 mei 2014 10:47

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   Kan iemand zien of vertellen op hoeveel downloads de TT Go Mobile app in Italië nu staat ?
6. [verwijderd] 31 mei 2014 11:40

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   Niet de minste review dit, zeg... Zie het onderstreepte over Nike en Garmin
   
   The TomTom MultiSport Cardio Watch is available now for £279.99
   
   Features:
   
   Built-in 'Mio' heart rate monitor
   GPS tracking (with improved fix speed)
   Large 'HD' display
   Water resistant
   8 hours tracking battery life
   Indoor tracking
   'One button' control
   Verdict:
   
   4starstechdarkblue
   
   Despite the ever increasing focus on wearable technology from the big-hitters like Samsung, Google and (presumably at some stage) Apple, the options for gadget-minded fitness freaks are still oddly limited. It's not that there aren't products out there designed to track every kind of activity and sport, and every level of athlete.
   
   The problem is that most of those products are stuck in the valley between having enough features to be useful, and a simple enough design to be usable. You have Garmin on one side, producing rock-solid but nearly incomprehensible fitness supercomputers (plus optional accessories, stands, straps and cases), and Nike on the other, making products so simple the data they provide is almost meaningless.
   
   The new TomTom MultiSport Cardio watch is an attempt to cross that divide, and provide a simple all-in-one watch for all kinds of sports, workouts and uses. The idea is to include as much hardcore data tracking and analysis as you need -- but not to overload you with options, difficult-to-read displays and extra doodads in the process.In the main it fulfils those ambitions.
   
   Smartly it does away with the traditional chest-mounted heart rate monitor, instead option for a built-in version which uses pulses of light to work out your heart rate on your wrist. It also integrates GPS into the watch, as well as a swimming monitor and an indoor exercise tracker. With its big, easy-to-read display, colourful and durable construction and slim design, the result is an attractive gadget with enough options to conceivably replace the rest of your fitness tech.
   
   The fundamentals are strong too. The device is accurate and our calculations showed roughly correct distances for runs, swims and a long cycle. It also coped well with indoor training, through the fact it relies on wrist movement and not GPS in that case means it's not quite as accurate as when it's outside. Similarly the device features a range of neat motivational tools, such as splitting your training automatically into 'heart rate zones' based on how hard you're working, and a range of full screen graphics that helpfully display that data.
   
   Other elements you'd expect are present and correct too - the device is compatible with sites like MapMyFitness and Strava, meaning your data doesn't have to remain inside TomTom's own limited walled garden. Data is transferred via Bluetooth, too, which wasn't the case on the older Cardio running watch.
   
   There are some downsides, though. For one, the design of the brand places the big 'one button' control in an awkward place for cyclists, and in our test meant we constantly moved the screens along and weren't able to use it for at-a-glance data. It's still quite big, despite the slimmer design, which can be unhelpful when swimming in particular. The GPS lock is still relatively slow, and there are some types of data you can't yet track compared to some of the more OTT competing products out there.
   
   Oh, and there's the price - £279 isn't insane compared to the rest of the market, but it's a lot. You'll have to really think about why you need to track your workouts in such detail, rather than it just seeming like a good idea, before you plunk down the cash.
   
   On the whole, though, this is a strong example of a training watch that is both simplified and full-featured. It's not perfect, but it proves you can have both. If TomTom stays on this path it has a good shot at staying relevant even when the big boys of tech turn their full sites on fitness wearables in the next 12 to 18 months.