Does Apple have a Scott Forstall problem?

Post by ars » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 7:03 AM UTC

glenra wrote: post #120

robomartin wrote: post #50

Nah. I don't agree with the premise of this article. This was not one person's decision. Many actors had to be involved in the decision making process. For some reason Apple decided that kicking Google off the platform was worth the abuse they'd have to endure with Maps. Those who keep saying "Maps is great" need to leave an egocentric view and realize that there are millions of users all around the world with differ…

> According to this either 60% of the locations either incorrect or missing altogether. According to a followup article ( http://vore.cc/post/32503374905/old-maps-vs-new-maps ) the old Maps app fails this exact test at least as badly. It just fails a bit differently . Whereas the new Maps app often says it can't find anything, the old one would for a similarly sized group of searches silently err on the side of findi…

Post by pbharrin » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 7:16 AM UTC

Post by guywithabike » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 7:36 AM UTC

achompas wrote: post #42

Bud wrote: post #30

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True, and I granted that point already. However, a lot of people live in China , too, and it's being widely reported that Apple Maps is much better than Google Maps' data, in China. I'll just give one link, but a little googling around proves the point quite well: http://www.bangkokpost.com/tech/gadget/314283/apple-maps-bet... You didn't have a perfectly working solution before, btw; Google Maps still has a lot of er…

You didn't have a perfectly working solution before, btw; Google Maps still has a lot of errors. I don't know if I'd make this comparison. The level of erroneous data in Apple Maps is just insane compared to Google Maps.

Post by mmcnickle » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 9:58 AM UTC

leif wrote: post #64

robomartin wrote: post #50

Nah. I don't agree with the premise of this article. This was not one person's decision. Many actors had to be involved in the decision making process. For some reason Apple decided that kicking Google off the platform was worth the abuse they'd have to endure with Maps. Those who keep saying "Maps is great" need to leave an egocentric view and realize that there are millions of users all around the world with differ…

"If only 5% of the data is wrong, and we have 2 billion searches per month, that means 100 million ..." Please go back to stats class.

Post by ralfd » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 2:05 PM UTC

thirdsun wrote: post #119

ralfd wrote: post #85

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I am German and we didn't get all Siri features before iOS 6 (wolfram Alpha is still missing). But I tried it more in the last days and am really impressed! Even when I thought "oh, I mumbled the word, Siri won't get it" it was correctly recognized. I most use it as text to speech for SMS. And checking Fußball Bundesliga works good. (But only first league, no info available for second league.) Since iOS 6 (or at east…

I'm from germany too - I mentioned this before, but did you notice that you can't speak to Siri in english at all when its set to german? This is problematic when telling Siri to play music by any artist whose name, band or album is pronounced in english - a native german name would work though. This, I guess, would apply to every non-english country and seems like a quite an oversight rendering music controls via Si…