That comment really is beyond the pale, DED. There is certainly feature disparity between google and apple's mapping products, but taken as a whole, google is providing a better overall experience. That fact is substantiated by the legions of people who are rightly upset at the lack of equivalent technology to streetview and poor international mapping data present iOS6 maps. People are upset because the collective perception is that the most desired features in a mobile map product are present in google maps and missing in iOS6 maps. Whether or not Apple's technology will ULTIMATELY prevail is not the point at the moment, as it is clearly Apple who needs to improve their product to bring feature parity for currently desired features.
To imply otherwise shows severe bias, and significantly undermines my confidence in the rest of the information on this site. There have been several iOS6 mapping articles lately that have show the same lack of balance. I realize this is an influential "blog", and I suspect that DED doesn't want his Apple stock to slide anymore than it has already, so I suspect the recent editorial exuberance for a currently inferior product reflects some attempt at damage control to counter the recent negative media.
Voice guided turn by turn is the experience that overrides all of Google's eye candy.
btw Maps on iOS has transit directions from whichever source you want to choose, I checked my city, there are dozens of them paid and unpaid.
I think you'll find that all other commentators are actually saying that it is Apple that is waiting for Google and that Google has the upper hand here. Very poorly written and research ramble.
That makes no sense since the old app was Apple's app not Google's and they have another year's worth of access to the map data. So if Apple was really behind the 8 ball they could move the iOS 5 map app to iOS 6 in a day or two. There are still millions of phones using the old app.
They aren't waiting on Google for anything. It's questionable in my mind if they they'd release the Google Maps App right away even if Google had submitted it at the same time as the youtube app. They probably couldn't get away with not approving it but I bet they are not bothered in the least the Google doesn't have their app ready. Google was probably on the "we'll have our app ready for when the contract ends" timetable.
And yeah, with only a year left on their contract THIS is the year they HAD to get off the Google servers because it'll takes a while, even for Apple, to get ALL the users off iOS 5...
Google was not "skyhooked" by Apple. Apple did not go to Samsung and change their certification criteria by saying "If you don't dump Google's search engine you're not going to qualify to be an Apple supplier."
Which is what Google did to Skyhook. They went to Moto and Samsung and told them to forget making certified android phones if they went with Skyhook. To the point of playing hardball and not letting Samsung ship 25K Galaxy S's that had skyhook already loaded on them.
Perfectly legal and perfectly sleazy. So it certainly doesn't make me sad that Google is missing out on a year of expected iOS location data collection.
It's been rumored for at least 3 years that Apple has been working on a maps. I knew it. Everybody knew it.
How, then, is It possible that Google was blindsided by this? I'm not buying it.
The key to this image is to read the copyright in the corner that gives two names: Nokia and C3 Technologies. As any tech enthusiast would know by now, C3 was bought by Apple in 2011. Yes, Apple's C3 provides (at least for now) the 3D images to Nokia.
I guess it's easier to be a pretentious dick than offer any valid criticism of another person's work. It's worked so well for the guy behind the other six accounts that constantly fume about every DED article without articulating any real grievances.
How about the grievance that you troll your own threads whilst hiding behind a pseudonym, Daniel?
Why does the article say 10s of Millions of users when Apple said over 100 Million iOS 6 installs the first weekend? 100 Million people not using Google Maps = Awesome!
That is true AppleBuser. Nokia licensed data from C3 and Apple bought C3. One could make the analogy that Nokia got the milk while Apple bought the cow (any maybe overpaid for the cow too!)
Apple has a simple problem; Google owns the Maps system that works and Apple doesn't, Apple decided to go it a alone and failed. NY Daily, Forbes, The Inquirer even ABC all report this mess as yet another assault on Apple's reputation. Put simply the conclusion is that Apple rushed to get the Iphone 5 on the market knowing full well that it had a mapping system which was totally underdeveloped just so that it could arrest its loss of market share to Samsung. Apple messed this one and is now trying to spin and buy expertise from Google, but catching up to Google will take years and Google can offer a product when it feels like it (code for when Apple is prepared to pay for it). Apple is now in a no win scenario as it has to play catch up (something it isn't used to) while Google continues to move forward including innovative underwater work.
Why does the article say 10s of Millions of users when Apple said over 100 Million iOS 6 installs the first weekend? 100 Million people not using Google Maps = Awesome!
100 Million phone sales does not equate to people not using Google Maps. It means 100 Million people are now not getting the best quality mapping system available on their phone and will probably be going to their nearest computer to download a Google Map so they can get accurate directions!!
Clearly everyone has chosen a side of the debate on the wisdom (or lack thereof) of ditching Google maps. My question to those of you so staunchly defending Apple is this: when Google releases it's own maps application with all of the features it provides for Android, will you still use Apple's maps? Let's see how many of you will cut off the nose to spite the face.
I would probably still use the Apple software and use the Google maps as an alternate. Actually, I can right now, just enter maps.google.com into Safari and everyone has it.
I understand others are having problems, but the new program is really slick so far.
I've had Google throw me off with outdated information as recently as last month, so I don't know if it deserves the pedestal it is placed on.
I don't really see the problem with any of the posts you reported, even if the poster is DED using a pseudonym.
AppleInsider isn't the WSJ. It's an Internet blog basically.
Most other blogs, the author responds under the same name as the article. I don't see why DED defends himself under a different name. It comes off as a form of sock puppetry. I don't have a problem with an author defending their articles using their own name, but the pseudonym / sock puppet is a bit suspicious.
Also, the original poster was being, well, an slang term for the male organ.
Some other responses were unjustifiably brash, in my opinion. It seems he may have still have been angry from responding to someone else when making a reply to a different person.
Perhaps you should take the time to report yourself?
He meant report to the moderators. That's how that phrase is used on a forum. I'm not sure what we can do, I assume whoever controls the site is OK with this form of sock puppetry, the best we can do is ask if that is the case.
I just worry that this is Apple's second post-Jobs big mistake. The first was the appointment of John Browett; and when he came a cropper we Brits, who know all about the Currys and PC World stores, weren't at all surprised. Now we have the maps disaster all, apparently, over turn-by-turn navigation. I have an iPhone 4S running iOS 5 with THREE navigation apps on it - Waze, SatNav/Skobbler and Navigon. If and when I upgrade to iOS 6 I probably shan't use Apple's turn-by-turn, anyway. Meanwhile I'm not upgrading because I use and like Streetview so much, and there is no substitute for it. (The app that claims to do this - Live Streetview Free - works so badly that it isn't worth the effort.) I often use Streetview to check out a place where I shall go and park, to see the nature of the street and how parkable it is, etc. Flyover is of no interest to me, and probably doesn't cover the town I live in, anyway. Is there a replacement for Streetview in the Apple pipeline?
I can understand if Google is content to let Apple and its users stew in their juice for a bit, although in the long run I guess Google needs Apple, to deliver its 365 million iOS users to Google ads, more than Apple needs Google.
100 Million phone sales does not equate to people not using Google Maps. It means 100 Million people are now not getting the best quality mapping system available on their phone and will probably be going to their nearest computer to download a Google Map so they can get accurate directions!!
I'm still waiting for you (or anyone else) to back that up with facts.
Some places are wrong on Apple Maps. Some places are wrong on Tom Tom. Some places are wrong on Garmin. Some places are wrong with Google Maps.
Now, please provide the evidence that the number is any greater for Apple Maps than for the others. A bunch of whining on forums like this is not useful evidence.
Some places are wrong on Apple Maps. Some places are wrong on Tom Tom. Some places are wrong on Garmin. Some places are wrong with Google Maps.
Now, please provide the evidence that the number is any greater for Apple Maps than for the others. A bunch of whining on forums like this is not useful evidence.
Finally, a reasonable post.
If more people would just take ten seconds before wailing on their keyboards with the fury of false entitlement, we wouldn't have this problem. Apple Maps is a step down at the moment, and is certainly worse than most of their 1.0 products, but the foundation is solid; Apple can constantly improve the backend db.
Don't be misled by the media's echo chamber; all their energy is being spent on parroting the same location and rendering errors, with little to no mention of it being the first mobile map with 3rd party extensions (afaik). For all the years of tear-soaked threads championing "open" ideology over Apple's "closed" platform, the new map API is a much bigger long-term deal than most people appear to realize.
A little historical perspective helps in big ways. One easily identifiable pattern is vendors who let their Mac/iOS version stagnate, so Apple ultimately builds superior tech to replace it (Flash to HTML5/H.264, IE to Safari, MS Office to iWork). Another is the tech press universally disparaging the latest Apple tech, which later goes on to be a huge success. The columnists who become fixated on things like antennagate, screen size over quality, marketshare over actual use, and an "open software" ideology over an "open where it matters and actually works" solution, are the same type of people who whine about a new Facebook layout but forget it within a week.
Comparing marketing bullet points is far easier than measuring objective quality. Concordantly, being accustomed to the glitches of an old system is easier than objectively judging a new app with the same problems.
Clearly everyone has chosen a side of the debate on the wisdom (or lack thereof) of ditching Google maps. My question to those of you so staunchly defending Apple is this: when Google releases it's own maps application with all of the features it provides for Android, will you still use Apple's maps? Let's see how many of you will cut off the nose to spite the face.
and when (or if) Google provides a map app for iOS 6, do you think that the Andriod manufacturers will not complain that Apple is getting a free map app, whereas the Andriod Licensee Pays for the map app?.
which is why Google will provide street view on the web app, and leave it at that...
There are even better turn-by-turn nav apps for the iPhone that are far superior to Apple's pathetic attempt. Waze Social GPS is free, and it uses real time traffic info by the 20 million users of the app. Apple can't do that.
Um, you know that Waze is what's feeding traffic to Apple's maps, right? And no one knows how to activate street view in iOS 5 without looking it up. There is no indication it is even there unless you are shown it or stumble upon it.
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Originally Posted by parksgm
That comment really is beyond the pale, DED. There is certainly feature disparity between google and apple's mapping products, but taken as a whole, google is providing a better overall experience. That fact is substantiated by the legions of people who are rightly upset at the lack of equivalent technology to streetview and poor international mapping data present iOS6 maps. People are upset because the collective perception is that the most desired features in a mobile map product are present in google maps and missing in iOS6 maps. Whether or not Apple's technology will ULTIMATELY prevail is not the point at the moment, as it is clearly Apple who needs to improve their product to bring feature parity for currently desired features.
To imply otherwise shows severe bias, and significantly undermines my confidence in the rest of the information on this site. There have been several iOS6 mapping articles lately that have show the same lack of balance. I realize this is an influential "blog", and I suspect that DED doesn't want his Apple stock to slide anymore than it has already, so I suspect the recent editorial exuberance for a currently inferior product reflects some attempt at damage control to counter the recent negative media.
Voice guided turn by turn is the experience that overrides all of Google's eye candy.
btw Maps on iOS has transit directions from whichever source you want to choose, I checked my city, there are dozens of them paid and unpaid.
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Originally Posted by ernysp76
I think you'll find that all other commentators are actually saying that it is Apple that is waiting for Google and that Google has the upper hand here. Very poorly written and research ramble.
That makes no sense since the old app was Apple's app not Google's and they have another year's worth of access to the map data. So if Apple was really behind the 8 ball they could move the iOS 5 map app to iOS 6 in a day or two. There are still millions of phones using the old app.
They aren't waiting on Google for anything. It's questionable in my mind if they they'd release the Google Maps App right away even if Google had submitted it at the same time as the youtube app. They probably couldn't get away with not approving it but I bet they are not bothered in the least the Google doesn't have their app ready. Google was probably on the "we'll have our app ready for when the contract ends" timetable.
And yeah, with only a year left on their contract THIS is the year they HAD to get off the Google servers because it'll takes a while, even for Apple, to get ALL the users off iOS 5...
Which is what Google did to Skyhook. They went to Moto and Samsung and told them to forget making certified android phones if they went with Skyhook. To the point of playing hardball and not letting Samsung ship 25K Galaxy S's that had skyhook already loaded on them.
Perfectly legal and perfectly sleazy. So it certainly doesn't make me sad that Google is missing out on a year of expected iOS location data collection.
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Originally Posted by eat@me
Same view from Nokia Maps 3D http://maps.nokia.com/37.8314708,-122.4825772,16,228,56.01,3d.day
The key to this image is to read the copyright in the corner that gives two names: Nokia and C3 Technologies. As any tech enthusiast would know by now, C3 was bought by Apple in 2011. Yes, Apple's C3 provides (at least for now) the 3D images to Nokia.
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Originally Posted by Corrections
I guess it's easier to be a pretentious dick than offer any valid criticism of another person's work. It's worked so well for the guy behind the other six accounts that constantly fume about every DED article without articulating any real grievances.
How about the grievance that you troll your own threads whilst hiding behind a pseudonym, Daniel?
That is true AppleBuser. Nokia licensed data from C3 and Apple bought C3. One could make the analogy that Nokia got the milk while Apple bought the cow (any maybe overpaid for the cow too!)
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Originally Posted by rufwork
Ditto. It's painful how quickly you can tell Dilger wrote the articles he's written here, and I don't mean that in a good way.
...
His name is above the article.
Painful indeed.
J.
Apple has a simple problem; Google owns the Maps system that works and Apple doesn't, Apple decided to go it a alone and failed. NY Daily, Forbes, The Inquirer even ABC all report this mess as yet another assault on Apple's reputation. Put simply the conclusion is that Apple rushed to get the Iphone 5 on the market knowing full well that it had a mapping system which was totally underdeveloped just so that it could arrest its loss of market share to Samsung. Apple messed this one and is now trying to spin and buy expertise from Google, but catching up to Google will take years and Google can offer a product when it feels like it (code for when Apple is prepared to pay for it). Apple is now in a no win scenario as it has to play catch up (something it isn't used to) while Google continues to move forward including innovative underwater work.
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Originally Posted by Phone-UI-Guy
Why does the article say 10s of Millions of users when Apple said over 100 Million iOS 6 installs the first weekend? 100 Million people not using Google Maps = Awesome!
100 Million phone sales does not equate to people not using Google Maps. It means 100 Million people are now not getting the best quality mapping system available on their phone and will probably be going to their nearest computer to download a Google Map so they can get accurate directions!!
I would probably still use the Apple software and use the Google maps as an alternate. Actually, I can right now, just enter maps.google.com into Safari and everyone has it.
I understand others are having problems, but the new program is really slick so far.
I've had Google throw me off with outdated information as recently as last month, so I don't know if it deserves the pedestal it is placed on.
Most other blogs, the author responds under the same name as the article. I don't see why DED defends himself under a different name. It comes off as a form of sock puppetry. I don't have a problem with an author defending their articles using their own name, but the pseudonym / sock puppet is a bit suspicious.
Some other responses were unjustifiably brash, in my opinion. It seems he may have still have been angry from responding to someone else when making a reply to a different person.
He meant report to the moderators. That's how that phrase is used on a forum. I'm not sure what we can do, I assume whoever controls the site is OK with this form of sock puppetry, the best we can do is ask if that is the case.
Most people don't read the author line. Also, it's usually pretty easy to tell from the abstract in the RSS feed, which does not name the author.
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Originally Posted by rufwork
Ditto. It's painful how quickly you can tell Dilger wrote the articles he's written here, and I don't mean that in a good way.
What's painful is watching you show the world how clueless you are. His name is in the byline of the original article:
http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/09/26/how-google-was-skyhooked-by-apples-new-ios-6-maps
:facepalm:
I just worry that this is Apple's second post-Jobs big mistake. The first was the appointment of John Browett; and when he came a cropper we Brits, who know all about the Currys and PC World stores, weren't at all surprised. Now we have the maps disaster all, apparently, over turn-by-turn navigation. I have an iPhone 4S running iOS 5 with THREE navigation apps on it - Waze, SatNav/Skobbler and Navigon. If and when I upgrade to iOS 6 I probably shan't use Apple's turn-by-turn, anyway. Meanwhile I'm not upgrading because I use and like Streetview so much, and there is no substitute for it. (The app that claims to do this - Live Streetview Free - works so badly that it isn't worth the effort.) I often use Streetview to check out a place where I shall go and park, to see the nature of the street and how parkable it is, etc. Flyover is of no interest to me, and probably doesn't cover the town I live in, anyway. Is there a replacement for Streetview in the Apple pipeline?
I can understand if Google is content to let Apple and its users stew in their juice for a bit, although in the long run I guess Google needs Apple, to deliver its 365 million iOS users to Google ads, more than Apple needs Google.
I'm still waiting for you (or anyone else) to back that up with facts.
Some places are wrong on Apple Maps. Some places are wrong on Tom Tom. Some places are wrong on Garmin. Some places are wrong with Google Maps.
Now, please provide the evidence that the number is any greater for Apple Maps than for the others. A bunch of whining on forums like this is not useful evidence.
jragosta
Some places are wrong on Apple Maps. Some places are wrong on Tom Tom. Some places are wrong on Garmin. Some places are wrong with Google Maps.
Now, please provide the evidence that the number is any greater for Apple Maps than for the others. A bunch of whining on forums like this is not useful evidence.
Finally, a reasonable post.
If more people would just take ten seconds before wailing on their keyboards with the fury of false entitlement, we wouldn't have this problem. Apple Maps is a step down at the moment, and is certainly worse than most of their 1.0 products, but the foundation is solid; Apple can constantly improve the backend db.
Don't be misled by the media's echo chamber; all their energy is being spent on parroting the same location and rendering errors, with little to no mention of it being the first mobile map with 3rd party extensions (afaik). For all the years of tear-soaked threads championing "open" ideology over Apple's "closed" platform, the new map API is a much bigger long-term deal than most people appear to realize.
A little historical perspective helps in big ways. One easily identifiable pattern is vendors who let their Mac/iOS version stagnate, so Apple ultimately builds superior tech to replace it (Flash to HTML5/H.264, IE to Safari, MS Office to iWork). Another is the tech press universally disparaging the latest Apple tech, which later goes on to be a huge success. The columnists who become fixated on things like antennagate, screen size over quality, marketshare over actual use, and an "open software" ideology over an "open where it matters and actually works" solution, are the same type of people who whine about a new Facebook layout but forget it within a week.
Comparing marketing bullet points is far easier than measuring objective quality. Concordantly, being accustomed to the glitches of an old system is easier than objectively judging a new app with the same problems.
and when (or if) Google provides a map app for iOS 6, do you think that the Andriod manufacturers will not complain that Apple is getting a free map app, whereas the Andriod Licensee Pays for the map app?.
which is why Google will provide street view on the web app, and leave it at that...
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Originally Posted by hillstones
There are even better turn-by-turn nav apps for the iPhone that are far superior to Apple's pathetic attempt. Waze Social GPS is free, and it uses real time traffic info by the 20 million users of the app. Apple can't do that.
Um, you know that Waze is what's feeding traffic to Apple's maps, right? And no one knows how to activate street view in iOS 5 without looking it up. There is no indication it is even there unless you are shown it or stumble upon it.
Apple's new Maps is very good. Just one error as yet.
Maps finds all my Clients, Family and Friends.
It is fast and easy to use.
If this the only thing that IOS 6 needs to improve, then Apple are on a winner!
Who is competing?