I'm still waiting for you to provide evidence that Apple's Maps are statistically any worse than Google's. You've been whining for a week and STILL haven't provided a shred of evidence.
Something tells me you're going to be waiting for awhile.
Absolutely unbelievable. This morning Maps routed me right into a lake. It had no idea the road had been closed over 10 years ago. I trusted my iPhone more than my own intuition, and followed it's every instruction. I'm on the side of the lake watching these guys pull my car out. I really hope Apple comes out with an update soon...because this will probably happen again.
My first real use of the new maps app wasn't very impressive. I was looking for a Sports Authority and it found two locations, both of which were no longer in business, and it did not have the locations for the new ones (a friend that was with me found the correct locations on his Lumia.) I will probably be using google maps from now on, although the turn by turn directions will be nice when the data catches up.
The features are irrelevant until the data is (something like) reliable.
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.
It's plain ignorant to suggest this map controversy is overdone. Foe most people maps is much less useful than google maps and is, practically, a significant downgrade. They need to bring google maps back ASAP and spend some time fixing apple maps or just dump it.
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.
If misplaced businesses are the biggest of your concerns, then I give you a non-functioning search and search results giving me addresses kilometers away from their right place despite everything being correctly charted on the map. That's my experience with Apple's Maps, I wish misplaced businesses (something I can easily look on the web for an address and create a contact that Google Maps will correctly point out afterwards) was the worst of my problems. Fortunately, I have not upgraded yet.
I don't trust ANY mapping service to inform me about local businesses, but I do trust Google Maps to give me directions to local addresses, even if in some cases it leads me to the wrong block, that beats leading me to places kilometers away or not even knowing where a street is by a huge margin.
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.
But Google at least sends you to addresses related to your search query; Apple maps sends you to completely random places (when it doesn't simply tell you that it couldn't find anything despite the fact that what you're looking for is perfectly charted on the map being displayed right on your screen).
Google Maps has often routed me to an address or location that is unrelated to my search query.
In the wake of criticism over its Maps application for iOS 6, Apple has revised its website to no longer refer to the software as the most "powerful mapping service ever."
So basically a retraction- A very sad day for Apple and iFans indeed.
Absolutely unbelievable. This morning Maps routed me right into a lake. It had no idea the road had been closed over 10 years ago. I trusted my iPhone more than my own intuition, and followed it's every instruction. I'm on the side of the lake watching these guys pull my car out. I really hope Apple comes out with an update soon...because this will probably happen again.
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?
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?
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?
You're correct .... remember all of the "pros" who called it garbage? Look what PC Mag says about it now ..... "Final Cut Pro X is a delight to work in compared with other serious video editing software. Final Cut Pro X brings the prosumer loads of power, ease-of-use, and no-wait performance. The speed gains (from 64-bit code and multicore support), the two-thirds price cut, and some nimble new tools in a fluid, highly usable and precise interface make Final Cut Pro X our Editors' Choice for high-end video editing."
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.
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I think he was being sarcastic.......
Originally Posted by SolipsismX
Redacted joke about Research in Motion blaming Apple Maps for driving them into a financial hole because I decided it was more sad than funny.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
classy
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Originally Posted by NIZZARD
Absolutely unbelievable. This morning Maps routed me right into a lake. It had no idea the road had been closed over 10 years ago. I trusted my iPhone more than my own intuition, and followed it's every instruction. I'm on the side of the lake watching these guys pull my car out. I really hope Apple comes out with an update soon...because this will probably happen again.
Aren't too bright are you?
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Originally Posted by DeanSolecki
My first real use of the new maps app wasn't very impressive. I was looking for a Sports Authority and it found two locations, both of which were no longer in business, and it did not have the locations for the new ones (a friend that was with me found the correct locations on his Lumia.) I will probably be using google maps from now on, although the turn by turn directions will be nice when the data catches up.
The features are irrelevant until the data is (something like) reliable.
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.
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Originally Posted by Lerxt
It's plain ignorant to suggest this map controversy is overdone. Foe most people maps is much less useful than google maps and is, practically, a significant downgrade. They need to bring google maps back ASAP and spend some time fixing apple maps or just dump it.
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.
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Originally Posted by Vaelian
If misplaced businesses are the biggest of your concerns, then I give you a non-functioning search and search results giving me addresses kilometers away from their right place despite everything being correctly charted on the map. That's my experience with Apple's Maps, I wish misplaced businesses (something I can easily look on the web for an address and create a contact that Google Maps will correctly point out afterwards) was the worst of my problems. Fortunately, I have not upgraded yet.
I don't trust ANY mapping service to inform me about local businesses, but I do trust Google Maps to give me directions to local addresses, even if in some cases it leads me to the wrong block, that beats leading me to places kilometers away or not even knowing where a street is by a huge margin.
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.
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Originally Posted by Vaelian
But Google at least sends you to addresses related to your search query; Apple maps sends you to completely random places (when it doesn't simply tell you that it couldn't find anything despite the fact that what you're looking for is perfectly charted on the map being displayed right on your screen).
Google Maps has often routed me to an address or location that is unrelated to my search query.
LOLZ!
Originally Posted by Cpsro
classy
Enjoy everything.
So basically a retraction- A very sad day for Apple and iFans indeed.
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Originally Posted by NIZZARD
Absolutely unbelievable. This morning Maps routed me right into a lake. It had no idea the road had been closed over 10 years ago. I trusted my iPhone more than my own intuition, and followed it's every instruction. I'm on the side of the lake watching these guys pull my car out. I really hope Apple comes out with an update soon...because this will probably happen again.
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?
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Originally Posted by iSheldon
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.
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Originally Posted by iSheldon
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Originally Posted by muppetry
Manhattan was largely unaffected by that bomb.
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?
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Originally Posted by newbee
You're correct .... remember all of the "pros" who called it garbage? Look what PC Mag says about it now ..... "Final Cut Pro X is a delight to work in compared with other serious video editing software. Final Cut Pro X brings the prosumer loads of power, ease-of-use, and no-wait performance. The speed gains (from 64-bit code and multicore support), the two-thirds price cut, and some nimble new tools in a fluid, highly usable and precise interface make Final Cut Pro X our Editors' Choice for high-end video editing."
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.