Revised Apple website no longer calls iOS 6 Maps most 'powerful' - Page 2

Can Appleinsider move on from this bullshit? Please? This shit is plastered over every other techsite with all the haters foaming at the mouth with glee. Why does AI have to plaster trash like the NYT article on tis front page, and reward the writers with even more clicks. Maps have worked better for me than the old one ever did, and everyday I benefit from the turn by turn, better cartography, vector tiles, iOS integration, etc. It's managed to find every search I've done in my city, and the one it DIDNT find, Google maps didn't either. Yes, they have to keep working on the data and POIs, but anyone who expected it to be on the same level as Google's on day 1, a cmpany who has spent the last 10 years with publically available maps and getting feedback from billions every single day, is insane and irrational. It is in many ways superior to what we had before, and in some ways inferior- and in those cases, it takes one tap to go to "maps.google.com" or any other map app, and there's more options today than there was in iOS5, and overall the mapping situation is BETTER not worse, as we have built in features that have been requested for a long time. The Apple hate fest machine is unbelievable, and propagated by those who haven't even USED the app, yet are so certain it's 'appalling', because they literally have nothing else to bash Apple over anymore. 

 

This self-entitled, self-righteous whining is pathetic. 

Something tells me you're going to be waiting for awhile.

I think he was being sarcastic.......

 

classy

Aren't too bright are you?

Google Maps have regularly been unable to locate businesses such as USPS, DPS and various restaurants in Austin, TX. Google Maps have given me unclear and incorrect directions on a number of occasions. Google Maps have taken an unacceptable amount of time to load routes on many occasions.

 

Sounds like those are too unreliable as well.

Turn-by-turn makes it more useful for me and many other users. I have rarely used Street View, and never for anything that practical.

Interesting, I've had Google route me to entirely different cities, despite the address being entered in correctly and in full (like if I type in Austin, TX and a ZIP, why does it choose to route me to a city in California with a completely different address?). I've also searched for businesses and followed the Google Map route, which lead me to a completely different block or area of town than I was supposed to be in.

Google Maps has often routed me to an address or location that is unrelated to my search query.

LOLZ!

 

Enjoy everything.

So basically a retraction- A very sad day for Apple and iFans indeed.

Look man the term smart phone.  Means exactly that.  SIRI was mad at you for buying a samsung TV.  So she sent you into the lake as a lesson on buying Samsung products.  Besides you needed a bath anyways right?

Just because it changed does not mean it had anything to do with "the wake of criticism over its Maps application for iOS 6".

 

I flew back from a business trip to L.A. on 20 September so that MUST have been because iOS 6 was released, right?

I looked at my neighborhood in NYC on Apple maps and it basically looks like Manhattan post Hiroshima bomb with melting buildings and parks. Like what is this and who wants it?

 

Manhattan was largely unaffected by that bomb.

Well then can you tell that to Apple? I have more important things to tend to.

 

Posting your anti-Apple sentiments on this forum is presumably one of them?

I'm pro Apple- just anti Apple Maps.
Next?

 

PC Mag isn't exactly what you'd call a noted authority on the subject of professional production tools, is it?

 

The operative word has been highlighted in that text.  Work in a pro facility includes activities not even imagined, much less understood, by one man bands like us.

 

The editors down the hall from me tell me X is improving, but even now it doesn't integrate into accepted workflows and industry-standard systems the way Studio did.  I'm a sound guy so my take is hearsay, but the sayers I'm hearing tell me it ain't no Symphony.

 

At the end of the day, it's about an app. When the competition can barely get an entire platform right (some can't even get one off the ground), and *our* biggest complaint is a map app, it's pretty much picnics and roses for "Apple and iFans."

 

This goes to show just how spoiled "Apple and iFans" are (and just how *important* Apple's mobile platform is to the bulk of the market.)

Listen- when both Tim Cook apologizes and Apple retracts its mapping superiority claim, us clueless, spoiled "trolls" have been validated.
'Nuff said

 

Oh, for goodness' sake. Perhaps nobody has compiled any 'statistical' evidence, so you're just going to have to accept the torrent of individual data points indicating as such.

 

If you didn't have a laughable inability to accept any flaws in any Apple product, this wouldn't be anywhere near as hard for you.

Sure they do. A hampered and lame app without turn-by-turn navigation right?

Why exactly would he have to tell Apple in Cupertino that NYC wasn't largely affected by an atomic bomb that fell in Hiroshima, Japan in 1945? You just get crazier and crazier every year, Teckstud.
Edited by SolipsismX - 9/30/12 at 5:29pm

 

OK. So posting your anti-Apple-maps sentiments on this forum is one of the more important things you have to tend to?

Bazinga! 

My postings are not based on emotions but rather factually based; therefore not a "sentiment" so therefore I can't answer that question.

No I'm not, I'm referring my own experience. I'm not gullible, unlike most of you here. I don't say the things I say because of the media, I say the things I say because of my experience; nobody makes a big deal out of the loss of the Dock connector, yet that's a big deal to me as well, and I've been quite verbose about it here in the past.


You can stop denying that it has issues.


But it doesn't send you to locations that have absolutely nothing to do with your search query, when it actually finds anything, which is my experience. At least you can tell why it sent you to those addresses; I can not tell why Apple maps sends me to some places that have absolutely nothing in common with my search query, and that's annoying, because I have no way to know what to do in order to get a more accurate search result.


Come to Europe and and witness how shitty Apple Maps actually is. Obviously your experience won't vary much in the US, which is the market everyone targets first,. so you can't use that to make a statement of quality.


That's my experience with Apple Maps all the time, so you answer me that question!


Nobody blames Apple for trying to build their own mapping platform; what people blame Apple for is feeding that clearly inferior platform down everyone's throats. Google Maps wasn't fed down anyone's throats, it didn't replace anything that already existed, it might have obsoleted other services for being a better option, but it never did so by replacing them, so yes, Apple deserves all the negative press because they fucked up.


The problem (with the app, not the data) is that it's not in sync with the map. THAT is a fundamental flaw whether it manifests itself or not, and it does manifest itself a lot where I live.


Your straw man fallacy is driving you to an ocean of pointless drivel.

Once again a reading comprehension refresher course is called for as I said it "looks" like Hiroshima with melted buildings and parks. Who or what is a Tekstud?

Really? You can't read road signs? It has nothing to do with intuition.

 

Only in your dreams. A modification to their website is hardly "news." Know what's really sad? AppleInsider is just pandering to the likes of you for the forum traffic.

"Hardly news" yet the very topic of this very thread and deemed very newsworthy by none other than AppleInsider itself? Do you now see the foolishness in your post?

Funny you're still waiting for something you never asked... Also, why are you only accepting statistical evidence? What about all the fundamental flaws that I've pointed out already? Why are those not valid evidence? Why have you never replied to any of the posts where I indicated those flaws?

My favorite posts are the ones claiming life has ended and the poster is completely disoriented, unable to move, unable to function without the old Maps app. Are there really people like that in this world? And boy are they gonna be pissed when they find out Google Maps is NOT EVER coming back to iOS (imho). Google may submit it but I seriously doubt Apple will allow it now that we know the circumstances of the Google/Apple breakup over turn-by-turn voice instructions. Duplication of functionality would be my guess. 

 

The drama queens are in full display over this one. Self immolation may be next I'm afraid.

You are correct in pointing out that modifying a website is hardly news; you are, however, missing the entire point behind that modification in particular, which is the newsworthy detail.

I've used Google Maps and Apple maps now for a few queries. Almost every time, Google is wrong. Here's an example of a friends house: https://jkichline.s3.amazonaws.com/map.jpg  The Google address is in the middle of the road by a farm. The Apple address is right on their house! In fact, the entire housing development does not exist in satellite photography.

 

In addition, placing the address for the community center on Google put most attendees to a birthday party on the complete other side of town about 40 minutes away!!! Google is fail at least in this town.

 

Also, I just had to look up an address for a conference near Pittsburgh. I put in the address in google maps and it put me in a residential community instead of the location of the conference. Apple got it right the first time.

 

So I do not experience anything close to what people are talking about with Apple Maps. It's proved better than Google Maps, at least for me. Sorry over-sensationalized news outlets.

Bye bye Google maps... Good riddance.

Where does this duplication of functionality nonsense come from? There are plenty of mapping apps in the app store, why would Google's be rejected?