TAIPEI, Taiwan Taiwan is asking Apple Inc. to blur a roadmap picture of its new $1.4 billion early warning radar station that may identify aircraft and missiles originating from so far as western China.

Defense Ministry spokesperson David Lo stated Tuesday that Apple should follow its rival Google in making use of only low-resolution satellite pictures to exhibit sensitive facilities. He acknowledged the military also needs to attempt to camouflage them.

The 10-story high radar installation constructed with U.S. technologies are likely to go online later this season. It's near the Hsinchu Air Base in northern Taiwan.

The satellite picture that may be seen with apple iphones is thought to possess been taken last year.

Local media say the radar installation can monitor targets, determine their speeds and fire missiles to intercept them.

Apple Boss Tim Prepare apologized recently for the company's error-ridden new mobile mapping service, pledging to enhance the application placed on hundreds of countless mobile phones and, within an unusual mea culpa, inviting frustrated consumers to show to the competition.

Inside a letter posted on Apple's site, Prepare stated Apple "fell short" of their own anticipation.
"Everything we do at Apple is targeted at making our products the very best in the world. We realize that you expect that from us, and we could keep working nonstop until Maps lives as much as the same incredibly high standard," Prepare stated.

"While we are enhancing Maps, you can try options by installing map applications from the Application Store like Bing, MapQuest and Waze, or use Google or Nokia maps by visiting their websites and creating a symbol in your home screen for their web application," Prepare authored.

Apple launched an update to the iPhone and iPad operating system recently that changed Google Maps with Apple's own map application. But users rapidly complained that the new software offered less details, didn't have riding on the bus directions and misplaced landmarks, among other issues.

Individuals have been scrambling to social networking to complain making fun of the app's glitches, including knowing landscape features by their names. The hulking Madison Square Garden arena in New You are able to, for example, turns up as eco-friendly park space due to the word "garden."

Until the software programs are enhanced, Prepare suggested that people use competing map applications to get around -- an uncommon move for the world's best company, which is honored on producing industry-leading devices that simply exceed rivals.