Apple has purchased GPS firm Coherent Navigation. The purchase is widely seen as an effort to improve the trouble-plagued Apple Maps. Coherent Navigation offers satellite navigation hardware; software that includes precise, secure, robust positioning; and timing and communication solutions. “Coherent is well known for the navigation and geolocation work that it’s done with companies like Boeing and Iridium, which has resulted in products and services that are more precise than consumer-grade solutions,” said Charles King, principal at Pund-IT.
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Coherent Navigation Buy May Not Unmuddle Apple Maps
Posted by: Richard Adhikari May 19, 2015 10:26 AMApple has purchased GPS firm Coherent Navigation. The purchase is widely seen as an effort to improve the trouble-plagued Apple Maps. Coherent Navigation offers satellite navigation hardware; software that includes precise, secure, robust positioning; and timing and communication solutions. “Coherent is well known for the navigation and geolocation work that it’s done with companies like Boeing and Iridium, which has resulted in products and services that are more precise than consumer-grade solutions,” said Charles King, principal at Pund-IT.