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iPhone 2.2 Update Review: Go Get It Now

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sjohns
11/21/08

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I see "streetview" as a toy. Could someone explain to me the benefits and uses of "streetview?" I've downloaded the updated, looked at streetview, and got bored with it pretty quickly. I don't really see the point. Is it suppose to help me find my way somewhere? Other than it being a cool feature to brag about, I don't see the point.
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Elliuotatar
11/21/08

@sjohns:

Streetview is good for looking at the area around turns and destinations before you make a trip so that you don't have to look at the map as much while driving and can navigate those complicated areas where the directions alone are confusing and the street names aren't well labelled.

Also I used it recently to scope out a dentists office to see if looked like a nice place in a nice area.
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weatherman
11/21/08

@Elliuotatar: I use it all the time on the desktop to check out places I'm planning on meeting people, just to scope out landmarks and things like that. It's also handy if you want to know what's around an area that you're not familiar with. I don't know that I'll use it much on the handheld, but hey it's not like it costs anything!
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Voyou_Charmant
11/21/08

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More importantly, did they jailbreak it yet?
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Wormfather is Wormfather
11/21/08

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But can it run Cyrsis?
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badhatharry
11/21/08

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Um, in the map above, did you just show everybody where you live?
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juandotcom
11/21/08

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i want smell recognition in 2.3. I'm not worried about Cut n Paste
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weatherman
11/21/08

@juandotcom: that would be awesome. Maybe I'll do that as an app and call it iSmelltIt.
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DorkRawk
11/21/08

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Copy & Paste : iPhone :: Chinese Democracy : Guns 'n Roses
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soggy_cheerio
11/21/08

@DorkRawk: Copy/Paste, MMS : StreetView :: Fuck : Duck :: What you want : What Apple wants you to have
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Benny Goldman
11/21/08

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Ohh Jesus its so cute how new you are to the city... there is no such thing as a timetable for the L.
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Kaiser-Machead
11/21/08

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Anyone who regularly takes the subway knows not to rely on their timetables. You leave as early as you can, and pray to the transit Gods that someone hasn't pulled the emergency brake, someone got sick on the train ahead, the police are investigating a station (THE STATION YOU HAVE TO GET OFF ON) and skip, or that your train is being detoured, like when the A train has to take the F line for some reason.
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Bos'un's Mate
11/21/08

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I anticipate the Rapture before I ever see Cut, Copy & Paste.
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jcrockerman
11/21/08

@Bos'un's Mate: rapture??? people still believe in that?
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Kaiser-Machead
11/21/08

@jcrockerman: At this point, God will have no choice. After watching his conduit (Jobs) fail time and time again to bring this menial function to his heavenly handset, his patience with this failed existence, called humanity, will run thin, and he'll have to resort to the Old Testament-style smiting and horror, by calling up all of the old debasements of physics, from raising water levels with no determined source for the excess, frogs from wherever the hell they would've come from, raining fire (or possibly just calling car-sized meteorites out of thin air in the upper atmosphere), to boils and sores, and locusts, lots of locusts. Steve Jobs is slowly turning the gears of the doomsday clock, and with every point upgrade of version 2 of the iPhone software, the ethereal floodgates of divine terror slowly grind open over the heads of these simple and mindless heathens.

Take pleasure in your bauble mortals, for your end is near!
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weatherman
11/21/08

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Train schedules for NYC subways are... optimistic. According to Maps my train that was supposed to arrive at 9:30 actually arrived at 9:26, but I suspect that it was actually the 9:21 train actually arriving late. Perhaps this works better for public transit systems that actually keep a schedule though.
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baltwade
11/21/08

@weatherman:
Perhaps this works better for public transit systems that actually keep a schedule though.
Is there such a thing??? I don't personally live in a place that has subways (we have something like a subway but I'm not going to call it that) but when I visit friends and family in NYC I've missed a number of trains and buses because they were early. A little late I don't mind but when you get there on time and it's already gone... that's pretty frustrating.
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matt buchanan
11/21/08

@baltwade: It would work awesomely in Japan, but I think in NY it's just wishful thinking. Hell, the L's own signs don't always know when the train is coming.
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Kaiser-Machead
11/21/08

@matt buchanan: The next....Brooklyn-bound......L train, will depart in approximately..........4 minutes.

*waits 10 minutes more*
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kakarotthemonkey
11/21/08

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Another biased "<3 iphone" story.
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Kaiser-Machead
11/21/08

@kakarotthemonkey: Yeah I know, how dare Gizmodo post an article giving a review of an update to one of the most popular handsets of recent. Fuck them and their obsession with shiny new gadgets. Where the hell is the Luddite section?
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jcrockerman
11/21/08

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Ducking good? damn..that's awesome!!! :) Iphone owners get that joke...LOL
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Kaiser-Machead
11/21/08

@jcrockerman: Sadly, I know that joke all too well.
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