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Funny subtitle: "The Apple iOS 6 Maps are amazing. Not." People seem to think "amazing" == "cool". Not so! It just means astonishing or surprising. Which makes the word so much more interesting to use. "We charge $9 for a bottle of Corona." "That's amazing!"* So the iOS 6 maps really truly are amazing :) *True story
What I will say is that Google for the longest time did not locate properly my home or my store in the middle of downtown San Francisco and Apple's maps have them correct on Day 1.
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Release early, release often. Luckily Apple themselves don't have any delays getting revisions into their app store.
The only issue is that since Maps is a default app, not managed by the App Store, Apple has to push OS updates to update it in any way, which is somewhat of a barrier to adoption.
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Release early, release often. Luckily Apple themselves don't have any delays getting revisions into their app store.
The only issue is that since Maps is a default app, not managed by the App Store, Apple has to push OS updates to update it in any way, which is somewhat of a barrier to adoption.
The "roller coaster" effects in the 3-d view are my favorite. They've got some smoothing algorithm going, or it wouldn't curve the way it does, but the elevation data must not have a high enough resolution. Google has made this sort of thing look so easy for so long, but it's clearly very hard to get this stuff right. So, I guess it's not that surprising that apple messed up something incredibly hard in their first a…
But you can't give them a pass here, the premium value that Apple sells is the amazing experience out of the box. How many years has it been since they got something wrong just out of the box? [No apple-hater, but postponing upgrading iOS indefinitely]
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The only issue is that since Maps is a default app, not managed by the App Store, Apple has to push OS updates to update it in any way, which is somewhat of a barrier to adoption.
But the problems reported are all data problems, which presumably can be fixed in the cloud. No app update needed at all.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/09/20/embark_garmin_add_...
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I live in the Netherlands and it seems to work like a charm so far. the whole upheaval sounds like an internet pile-on to me.
After communication, maps are the second most important application on a smartphone for a lot of people. If those maps go from being reliable to being wildly wrong -- which, it seems apparent, has been the experience of a number of people -- then you can hardly expect them to not be upset. If there were some perfectly reasonable explanation for why upgrading to the new version of iOS/Android/whatever caused text mess…
Searching by address for me has been accurate (and at least a couple of the screenshots on the linked site are obviously playing on that by having street address in one window and business name in another).
In my part of the world (rural Western Australia) the route mapping (which I use Maps for far more than searching for a business name) is looking pretty good, even though we don't get turn by turn until next month apparently. Incidentally route mapping is something that Google has screwed up for me on more than one occasion as well.
The text messaging comparison is just ridiculous.
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Jobs would have fired the whole Maps team, en masse. Furiousness is a skill. Tim Cook falls short here.
Actually, Jobs would never have allowed Maps to be released in this state to begin with.
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I'm surprised by how poor this Nokia comparison is. Maybe it highlights the difference of that company vs Apple or Google. The post focuses on the reach of their maps by showing lots of numbers in a comparison. They would better demonstrate their point with side by side pictures, like the ones from OP of this thread. Personally, I wonder about the reach of this marketing angle. I take 2 international trips per year.…
> I don't care if the maps work in Columbia or South Africa. I just want it to work well where I live! So do people in Columbia and South Africa. :)
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I don't think Apple gets a pass here. If they are forcing users onto their product it had better be competitive, no matter how hard it is. Microsoft got so such pass with WP7 and that was an entirely new OS/platform!
Jobs would have fired the whole Maps team, en masse. Furiousness is a skill. Tim Cook falls short here.