Microsoft: Hey, Apple Maps haters, Use Bing for iPhone instead
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Re: Microsoft: Hey, Apple Maps haters, Use Bing for iPhone instead
#2So Bing maps has not been dated almost all year and sucks overall. Great idea. Microsoft loses over $2 billion on Bing every year and there's a reason for that.
Re: Microsoft: Hey, Apple Maps haters, Use Bing for iPhone instead
#3Sadly the bing app won't when I click 'Directions' in the Yelp App. I wish apple were not such control freaks and we could have the intent system in iOS... even if it was an advanced feature hidden in some obscure menu.
Re: Microsoft: Hey, Apple Maps haters, Use Bing for iPhone instead
#4Bing Maps have been rapidly improving over the past year and no one seems to have picked-up on it. via their deal with Nokia, Microsoft is slowly updating the backend data, incorporating Navteq's over 20+ years of mapping tech. its not quite up to parity with Nokia Maps (or Google) internationally yet, but it's come a long way and (i'm guessing) easily beats-out Apple's quickly-built homegrown implementation.
for those who don't know, Nokia owns Navteq (purchased a few years ago) which powers over 85%+ of automotive navigation systems (as well as Garmin, Mapquest, and many other popular mapping services)..
Re: Microsoft: Hey, Apple Maps haters, Use Bing for iPhone instead
#5I'm using Bing for the Palm Pre and it is garbage (can't figure out to search at my location at all). Maybe it's better for the iPhone.
Re: Microsoft: Hey, Apple Maps haters, Use Bing for iPhone instead
#6Bing Maps have been rapidly improving over the past year and no one seems to have picked-up on it. via their deal with Nokia, Microsoft is slowly updating the backend data, incorporating Navteq's over 20+ years of mapping tech. its not quite up to parity with Nokia Maps (or Google) internationally yet, but it's come a long way and (i'm guessing) easily beats-out Apple's quickly-built homegrown implementation. for tho…
Shame they seem to have given up on their version of street view, Streetside, however.
Re: Microsoft: Hey, Apple Maps haters, Use Bing for iPhone instead
#7The title of the article is just silly, sounds like a 13 year old came up with it. However, having used Bing maps, it seems like a great alternative to Google Maps. Both have Streetview, Transit maps and can also detect nearby businesses. The Bing map's layout and typography looks much cleaner and fresher than Google, but that's just my personal opinion.
Re: Microsoft: Hey, Apple Maps haters, Use Bing for iPhone instead
#8Strangely, Microsoft hasn't put the Bing app in the Canadian app store. The app's been out for ages now, and is still US only (as far as I know?). I can't for the life of me figure out a good reason for this. Bing.com has local search results for Canada, so it's not that.
Not that it's putting me out. I can search bing from Safari. Just a strange move on their part. It's like the intern who's job it was to ready the international version got fired and nobody checked his pending workload.
Re: Microsoft: Hey, Apple Maps haters, Use Bing for iPhone instead
#9Bing Maps have been rapidly improving over the past year and no one seems to have picked-up on it. via their deal with Nokia, Microsoft is slowly updating the backend data, incorporating Navteq's over 20+ years of mapping tech. its not quite up to parity with Nokia Maps (or Google) internationally yet, but it's come a long way and (i'm guessing) easily beats-out Apple's quickly-built homegrown implementation. for tho…
Shame they seem to have given up on their version of street view, Streetside, however.
They haven't given up on it, it's just quite limited at the moment, only showing up in major US cities. I actually find it stitches together images much better than Google's Street View, although it could just be because Google's pictures were taken a long time ago.
Re: Microsoft: Hey, Apple Maps haters, Use Bing for iPhone instead
#10I can't find the app on the app store.