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Does Apple have a Scott Forstall problem?

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Re: Does Apple have a Scott Forstall problem?

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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…

I really don't get the "Maps are great for me" apologists either. It reads like "Typhoon in Japan? Looked outside, weather is great here."

I'm sure TomTom and Apple cleaned up the data for areas where their programmers and bosses live. Even in Seattle, I searched for "Pizza" and it didn't find the place down the street [I had to search for "Pizzareia" for it to show up].

When you see reports of major airports being missing or mislocated, you can't use the "Well my local airport shows up fine" defense. It's like an inverse Tu Quoque fallacy [you hit a problem, I didn't, therefore the problem isn't there].

Re: Does Apple have a Scott Forstall problem?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please leave more useful comments and explain the supposed error.

it assumes uniform search distribution

Oh, please! There's no way to get the data required to do any real statistics work on this. Not without doing a hell of a lot more work than is worth for an HN post.

My simplistic 5% = 100 million calc serves to simply highlight that small numbers can mean huge problems. Even if I am off by an order of magnitude this is still a huge number of searches per month that are potentially sending people to entirely the wrong place, if at all.

Relax.

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