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Apple Maps: Better Product Design Google Maps: Better Data I'm especially missing dropping pins to share location and search bar tucked up at the top in Google Maps, but Apple's lack of integrated transit directions and putting me in random locations is a no go for city life. Sigh...
Can you not share location? Or do you just miss the graphical touch of dropping pins?
Apple Maps: Better Product Design Google Maps: Better Data I'm especially missing dropping pins to share location and search bar tucked up at the top in Google Maps, but Apple's lack of integrated transit directions and putting me in random locations is a no go for city life. Sigh...
Can you not share location? Or do you just miss the graphical touch of dropping pins?
Sort of off-topic and I've harped on this before, but when I search "google maps" in the app store, it's the fifth search result! As a developer in the App Store, I really hope they do something to fix the abysmal searches in it.
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Really? I submitted a story earlier about state police in Australia saying that Google maps are dangerous and it's been completely ignored. Ok, maybe it was a repeat of a story that had been previously submitted, but since not a sniff of the story has appeared, I'd suggest that the pro-Google/anti-Apple sentiment is far more pervasive here. I'd think were the opposite true, we'd have seen much more of this story.
I searched HN for this story and was surprised to not find it, so I submitted it myself. It was dead within an hour. And really, thinking about it now, it probably deserved to die, just as the Apple story probably deserved to die. The only real lesson from these stories is that you can't blindly follow your GPS… and everyone should've already known that. But all that did get hashed out in the Apple thread and really…
Edit: A case in point is the sub thread on search in the AppStore vs Google Play. I use Google Nexus and iOS devices and can assure you that the Play store on the phone is worse that the AppStore. The online version is significantly better. Discoverability is awful in both. This maybe my opinion, but it's based in real world use of both.
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Can you give steps to reproduce? I was looking specifically at road outlines and they seemed like they were definitely vector. Satellite views are obviously bitmap.
I don't have an iOS device, but here are my steps to reproduce on Android. Open a map. Turn on airplane mode. Zoom in. See pixels Here's a screenshot I took after I enabled airplane mode: http://i.imgur.com/wc5Ie.png
Sort of off-topic and I've harped on this before, but when I search "google maps" in the app store, it's the fifth search result! As a developer in the App Store, I really hope they do something to fix the abysmal searches in it.
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Oh come on. I like to make fun of Apple maps as much as the next guy but the reality is that they aren't that bad. Certainly a few more iterations and constant development effort will iron out any quirks.
First impressions are killer. Even if they're improving, there is a harsh stigma against Apple Maps now, much like Bing, because it didn't meet user's expectations. So users are being comforted by a familiar and useful tool, Google Maps, which many people can use on their computers (Why is Apple Maps not bundled into OSX? Error reporting could be done much more efficiently and abundantly). At this point, many people…
There are a huge number of un-tech savvy users with iPhones that barely download any 3rd party apps at all. Those of us who have been voicing our opinion about Apple Maps and anticipating Google's new app are the vocal minority.
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Agreed! This happens with my own app as well! Apparently the app title , even when an exact match to your search query, is no longer considered important. If there is one thing Apple truly fails at, it is search.
...don't forget maps. They failed at that too. But I can tell you that it was not necessarily Apple that failed at maps. The same problems I had with Apple maps were there in Magellan GPS and their map and content provider Navteq....which is Apple Maps' map, nav, and data provider. Ever notice when you were doing the turn-by-turn directions that there is a lag in the marker that leads you to miss or almost miss turns…