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kleinbl00  ·  2289 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post:

Yeah, but it's the data they collected nine years ago. Google won this war when they decided to calibrate every other source they could get by putting boots on ground. That boots-on-ground period is over - they've got a real-world reference they can compare against that is now almost a decade old. Everything that came after that is just data manipulation and Apple could do it too - but it wouldn't matter because their data is uncalibrated so they can't iterate until they get it right the way Google can.

There is no way for Apple to catch up because they gave up on the calibration step. Google is no further ahead than they were nine years ago because everything else is just the icing on top.