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Ternus recently gave an interview where he said this about the initial flop of Apple Maps: > “When we started out with maps, it was an ambitious undertaking. It was bumpy,” said Ternus. “But the team had just been over the years just pushing and pushing and pushing. And Apple Maps today is absolutely amazing. If you have the vision and you're persistent and you keep working at it, you can take something you know that…
>And Apple Maps today is absolutely amazing. Perhaps that is the case in the US, but in Poland, I haven't had a single app guide me into the literal bushes as many times as Apple Maps does. The straw that broke the camel's back was when, I shit you not, the navigation aspect literally expected me to drive through a lake.
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#1001I have had the odd issue with Apple Maps, and I wish there were better ways to do things that other apps have features for (like indicate a hazard or road closure), but I have never had a good experience with Google Maps. Just the other day it told me to drive east, then north, then west, in a winding path through my neighborhood, just to exit onto the road 200m west of my house, at an intersection slightly north. It would have added 5 minutes to my drive and it wasn’t even one of those “alternate routes” that sometimes appear during a drive. This was my only navigation choice according to the app!