Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020) • Hacker News Board

Re: Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)

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Post by Doctor_Fegg » Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 8:05 AM UTC

aquir wrote: post #5

throwawaysea wrote: post #2

This article is from last year but the latest iOS 15 updates show how mature Apple maps has become (see https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ios-15-maps/ ). It’s not just at parity but actually better than Google maps. It has beautiful rendering and easy readability, and I haven’t encountered odd routing issues for a couple years now. The added privacy is a welcome bonus. The only thing missing is a way to report police p…

This is might be true but only if you live the US. In the UK, Apple Maps is not par with Google Maps unfortunately.

But then, if you live in the UK, Google Maps is not par with Ordnance Survey, or in many places, OpenStreetMap.

(This depends, obviously, on what you want from a map. I'm not a motorist.)

Re: Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)

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Post by larrysalibra » Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 8:07 AM UTC

aquir wrote: post #5

throwawaysea wrote: post #2

This article is from last year but the latest iOS 15 updates show how mature Apple maps has become (see https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ios-15-maps/ ). It’s not just at parity but actually better than Google maps. It has beautiful rendering and easy readability, and I haven’t encountered odd routing issues for a couple years now. The added privacy is a welcome bonus. The only thing missing is a way to report police p…

This is might be true but only if you live the US. In the UK, Apple Maps is not par with Google Maps unfortunately.

It's not the UK, but in Hong Kong on iOS 15, Apple Maps now automatically taps you on the wrist (apple watch) right before it's time to get off the public bus at your stop. It is freakishly accurate.

Re: Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)

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Post by thinkingemote » Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 8:10 AM UTC

echelon wrote: post #4

I still don't get it. Apple is a company people cheer for, yet it continues to accrue substantial and dangerous power. They don't let you repair devices, install your own software, or run your business unfettered. They spy on your files. They coddle and report to authoritarian governments. This monopoly is lauded and praised as it continues to get bigger and encompass everything one does. I don't understand it. It hu…

Brand and personal investment of time and money in that brand means people will defend their investment.

It's why you can detect so much anger and pain in anti apple threads, because people's personalities are wrapped up with the brand.

A consumer doesn't just get one apple device, or just use one apple app, they buy the watch, phone, desktop, laptop, subscriptions, walled garden store, etc, and it works. It's a family which is hard to leave because you like it there.

Re: Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)

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Post by tuyiown » Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 8:15 AM UTC

echelon wrote: post #4

I still don't get it. Apple is a company people cheer for, yet it continues to accrue substantial and dangerous power. They don't let you repair devices, install your own software, or run your business unfettered. They spy on your files. They coddle and report to authoritarian governments. This monopoly is lauded and praised as it continues to get bigger and encompass everything one does. I don't understand it. It hu…

I don't understand why you focus on apple. The problem is accros the entire mobile space, the frightening thing is not the power of apple, it's the fact that _alternatives are not much better_

Re: Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)

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Post by gmac » Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 8:18 AM UTC

throwawaysea wrote: post #2

This article is from last year but the latest iOS 15 updates show how mature Apple maps has become (see https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ios-15-maps/ ). It’s not just at parity but actually better than Google maps. It has beautiful rendering and easy readability, and I haven’t encountered odd routing issues for a couple years now. The added privacy is a welcome bonus. The only thing missing is a way to report police p…

I'd love to use Apple maps for driving directions, but I just can't get used to its mostly-overhead navigation view. I regularly take wrong turnings when following Apple Maps, which almost never happens with Google Maps or TomTom.

Re: Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)

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Post by dchest » Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 8:20 AM UTC

Meanwhile, in other parts of the world it cannot even get the shape of land and country borders right. Here's an example on the border of Montenegro and Albania: https://imgur.com/a/B3aVJYH

Re: Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)

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Post by gullevek » Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 8:21 AM UTC

throwawaysea wrote: post #2

This article is from last year but the latest iOS 15 updates show how mature Apple maps has become (see https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ios-15-maps/ ). It’s not just at parity but actually better than Google maps. It has beautiful rendering and easy readability, and I haven’t encountered odd routing issues for a couple years now. The added privacy is a welcome bonus. The only thing missing is a way to report police p…

Apple Maps really look nice. But depending where you are the information can be shocking barren. Especially in Japan. They look really great but there is no labels, or anything. And if they are not as well double labeled (english and japanese).

They are amazing compared what crap we got back in 2012 or so when apple maps replaced google maps.

Re: Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)

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Post by asymmetric » Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 8:25 AM UTC

From 2020.

Re: Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)

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Post by littlestymaar » Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 8:33 AM UTC

dchest wrote: post #16

Meanwhile, in other parts of the world it cannot even get the shape of land and country borders right. Here's an example on the border of Montenegro and Albania: https://imgur.com/a/B3aVJYH

Google Maps is better[1] but none of them come even remotely close of Open Street Maps[2]

[1]: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.858832,19.3550722,13.71z

[2]: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/728419973#map=13/41.8835/...

Re: Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)

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Post by SirHound » Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 8:44 AM UTC

Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #11

aquir wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is might be true but only if you live the US. In the UK, Apple Maps is not par with Google Maps unfortunately.

But then, if you live in the UK, Google Maps is not par with Ordnance Survey, or in many places, OpenStreetMap. (This depends, obviously, on what you want from a map. I'm not a motorist.)

This might be true if you're walking up a hill but its not true if you're trying to go to a specific place (restaurant/shop etc) with opening times via any mode of transport.