Waze vs Apple Maps vs Google Maps

Nintendo releases a free new level for Super Mario Odyssey, comparing Maps apps & the secret to a first class upgrade.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech Daily.
Nintendo has a surprise for fans of its hit game
Super Mario Odyssey, a free update so you can play
some more. The new level is called Luigi's Balloon World.
It's now gonna show up after you beat the main
story and download the update. Then you just have to
find and talk to Luigi to access it. The world

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is like Hide and Go Seek, but with balloons and
players from all over the world. And this is a
pretty brilliant move on Nintendo's part on two levels. First off,
it lets kids like mine who are still obsessed with
Super Mario Odyssey even after they've completed the game, they
get to still play with it with this new level.
And it gets people to sign up for Nintendo's online

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service for the Switch, which right now is free, but
they said they're going to start charging for it come September.
All right, Moving on now. A corporate finance guy in
San Francisco wanted to see what the difference was between
Apple Maps, Google Maps, and Ways, so he did a
giant blog post and an experiment. For most of twenty seventeen,

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he logged about one hundred and twenty trips including weather conditions, traffic,
and more So, here is what he decided. If you
want to get to your destination fastest used Google Maps,
Apple Maps is best for accurate predictions to when you're
going to arrive, and if you're just anxious about getting there,
he says to use Ways since it makes you feel

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like you're making progress due to its random roots. Here's
the deal. He also said that Ways is kind of
interesting because they always show sort of the shortest estimated
time for your trip, when in reality that may not happen.
But here's what his theory is. His theory is that
because Google sells advertising on Ways, like when you come

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to a stop, it will show a little ad on
your screen, they want as many people as possible to
use the app. And if you open up Ways and
it says forty minutes for your trip versus Google Maps
that shows forty five, Well, which one do you think
you're gonna use? Interesting theory. I Finally, today, a British
writer is revealing the two words that could help you
snag a first class upgrade. Her name is Tilly Bagshaw.

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She's a best selling author and flies about one hundred
thousand miles a year. She told Bloomberg Pursuits she has
never paid for a first class seat, so her secret.
All you have to do is mention the term revenue
management to the reservation agent, as in, hey, has revenue
management released any first class seats for a miles upgrade?
And if they say no, ask to be transferred to

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that department to see if they can release one for you.
I see this happen all the time. You book an
international flight, you go to the first class upgrade page
and it says nope, sorry, they're all waitlisted if you
want to use your miles, or they're just not available.
So the reality is it's not that they're all taken
up with miles upgrades. It's just the fact that the
airline hasn't really really released any of those seats that

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they want people to pay top dollar for into a
miles upgrade. So interesting theory. I don't know when I'm
gonna try this, but next time I have a big
trip coming up, I will definitely do that and I'll
report back to you. Guys. Thanks so much for listening.
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