Apple has acquired the companies BroadMap and Catch in an attempt to improve Apple Maps and the Notes application (Video)

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  Company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), had a long list of acquisitions in 2013, and dozens of companies bought by the end of this year it adds BroadMap si wrestling, some of the employees of both companies are now part of Apple's teams. BroadMap is a company that develops systems that provide geographic information for services such as Apple Maps, having the role of analyzing and managing data about geographic locations. The company has developed a set of tools that allow the management of digital data regarding geographic locations, but also web services designed to provide detailed information about various locations around the globe.

  wrestling is a popular application that allows users to record notes and save them in a specially developed cloud system. The application was designed with the idea of ​​allowing users to record notes with texts, pictures or voice recordings, it was awarded by Apple and promoted in the past in App Storehis The purchase of this application will allow Apple to offer the Notes application a multitude of functions that at the moment only Cydia tweaks can implement, but which third-party applications have had available for some time.

  Apple did not directly confirm the acquisition of the two companies, but a spokesman for Cupertino provided the standard text used to comment on past acquisitions. Finally, I will tell you that Apple acquired both companies at the beginning of this year, so it is possible that we will see at least part of the Catch functionality implemented in iOS 8.