Ewan Dalton's Tip o' the Week

Is Bing Maps really a Zombie?

Sticking on the theme of making mapping stuff worse, Microsoft has been busy “evolving” Bing Maps.

So, is internal competition really a good thing?

We can never really be sure. Having several groups pursuing the same goal is inevitably “wasting” resource, but it may be that without that competitive tension they’d miss key breakthroughs, or fail to challenge long-held assumptions. Recognising and capitalising on opportunity, regardless of how difficult its gestation, that’s what marks out success in the long run.

Will legislators blink?

It remains to be seen whether the powers-that-be will continue to try and make the industry switch fully to EVs. The use of tariffs by the Trump administration might stymie imports from overseas, but there’s little incentive for domestic US automakers to fully embrace EVs or even make their existing gas guzzlers super-efficient – Tesla being the notable exception.