Uh oh . Apple Maps , for all of its blurry , melting world faults , was actually a little too vindicated in one area : it bring out a top - secret , $ 1.23 billion ultra - in high spirits - frequency radar of Taiwan for everyone to see . Um , that ’s not good .
The Liberty Times , a newspaper in Taiwan , published a readable satellite picture of the top - hidden , prospicient - kitchen stove radar base in the northern county of Hsinchu , Taiwan . It was make to detect missiles that could be establish by China and was n’t supposed to get come out of the closet in the populace like that . Taiwan ’s defense ministry say :
“ Regarding images taken by commercial-grade satellites , legally we can do nothing about it . But we ’ll ask Apple to lower the resolution of orbiter icon of some secret war machine establishments the manner we ’ve asked Google in the past . ”
Taiwan ’s secret radar , which was supplied by Raytheon , was probably on China ’s metaphorical radar already but it ’s dependable ( and hilarious ) to know that when Apple Maps is operate , it can show maps of material we should n’t be allowed to see . [ Phys Org , CNET , UberGizmo ]
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