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After 11 years of work, people actually like Apple Maps
Apple Maps has a button that says “Report an Issue”. That button is in a few spots within AM and can be used to report issues with a business (such as incorrect hours, incorrect locations on the map, business moved or closed, etc), to report errors in navigation, etc. It’s there for anyone to use. The issue gets reported then fixed, sometimes Apple will ask for more information before a fix is issued.dominikhoffmann said:What would help is allowing community members to edit and correct map details.
It’s the opposite where I am. Our house is fairly new, built on a new street in 2021. People using Apple Maps get directions to my house, as expected. People using Google Maps end up on a street that’s about 1/2 a mile away from us, that isn’t similarly named and usually call asking how to find us. This was especially frustrating when we kept getting calls from furniture delivery drivers who were on the wrong street and using Google Maps. I’d have to walk them through all the turns to get to my house. We’ve been here now for over 18 months and last month Google Maps was still providing incorrect directions.maltz said:dominikhoffmann said:With Apple’s loyal following, I would think that an army of willing editors could easily be found who conscientiously would make edits. This could propel Apple Maps ahead and would likely help especially in markets outside of the U.S., on which Apple places a lower priority (case in point: today’s news that Apple Pay is rolling out in Morocco, nine years after its inception).
Apple's following may be loyal, but its user base - especially its Maps user base - is dwarfed by Waze/Google's. I've also found that even in moderately-sized US metro areas (500k+) new, major roads were on Google/Waze the day they opened, but took weeks-to-months to appear in Apple Maps. I've also found new-ish subdivisions that have been there 1-2 years, where the streets are there, but the numbering is all wrong. If you're not in a major US city, Apple Maps is still fairly terrible, in my experience, even today.
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tvOS 17 feature roundup: FaceTime, karaoke, Zoom, VPN, and more
Did the keynote mention that volume for vocals and music will be independently adjustable in Fitness+? My wife has been asking for that to be possible for a long time. She complains that the voices are too loud and the music too quiet.
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Apple announces new Music, Podcasts, and Maps features coming in the fall
I may not be remembering exactly right but I thought offline maps had been a thing with Apple Maps for a long time. DED did a few articles here on Apple Insider that mentioned how Maps downloaded a large area on your nav route and would work offline for quite a while. Did that go away and now is coming back or am I mixing up different features?
Edit: Found an article about Maps on iOS 6 having offline capabilities: https://appleinsider.com/articles/12/10/05/apples-new-ios-6-maps-support-automatic-offline-use-for-a-wide-area
Just a guess but it could be the hassle of international music licensing. A few years ago I read some articles about music licensing in the fitness industry being complicated and prohibitively expensive in some countries, like Australia. One article went into some detail about how expensive it would be for one fitness club to pay to use just one song in fitness class for a year. I think it was anywhere from $70,000 to $100,000. In the gym where I work I use, at a minimum, 80 songs a year. There’s no way the gym where I work earns enough to justify paying licensing fees of $6,000,000 per year. It’s a small place and I’m positive that’s more money than they earn per year, far more. Granted, Apple can afford to pay licensing fees that a fitness club couldn’t dream of, and maybe it would be worth it for them, but there’s likely still a lot to figure out and get agreements with labels for every country they would want to launch Fitness+ in.riverko said:And still users outside of US or few other selected region pay full price for partial services… i don’t understand what is so difficult on releasing Fitness+ worldwide… -
Apple's diversity efforts are 'selfish & practical' says head of developer relations
It appears you didn’t read the post and consider what it said. I find it interesting that you claim to support diversity but immediately jumped to calling someone a bigot when they introduced a perspective you didn’t agree with.JP234 said:
Stop trying to justify your bigotry in word soup and just say it out loud! Diversity is fine, as long as it only includes differing white people.davidw said:
But why does "diversity" only pertain to gender and race? I'll wager that there is more "diversity" between an Asian born and educated in the US and an Asian born and educated in China or an Asian born and educated in Japan or an Asian born and educated in India, than there is between him and a White person born and educated in the US. The same goes for White. There's "diversity" among Whites from the US and those from the UK or Australia or Sweden or France, etc. Why is "diversity" only pertaining to gender and race? There can be as much or more "diversity" among people of the same race than there is among people of different races.chutzpah said:
Because gender and race diversity brings different perspectives. You're so close!Kierkegaarden said:“Prescott explained that the company's dedication to inclusivity and diversity is motivated by a "selfish and practical" perspective. She believes that to create the best products for all consumers, they must be developed by a diverse team of individuals, according to a report from The Independent.”
I don’t agree. To create the best products for all consumers, they must be developed by a competent team with diverse skills and perspectives. Why are they so focused on the gender and race of a developer?
As for "........ diversity brings different perspectives", this might matter when designing a GUI or working in HR or working in promotion and ads or customers relations, or designing a virtual assistance, etc. but "diversity" should have no bearing when it comes to designing chips, writing search algorithm or debugging software and many other jobs where "a different perspective" doesn't matter.
A company shouldn't hire a female that is good at debugging software because she might bring a different perspective into debugging software. A company should hire a female that is good at debugging software because she good at debugging software. However, if a female speciality is in designing virtual assistance and your company team in charge of designing a virtual assistance is all male, then adding a female to the team might just make the design better because of the different perspective she adds to the design.If there's anything that gets to me, it's when bigots play the "We should only hire the best qualified people, based only on merit!" trope. Well, we've missed hiring millions of the best people for the job due to the exact embedded societal racism and sexism your beliefs prove.
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Former Apple PR head Katie Cotton has passed away
I think she was only controversial to the reporters that were trying to get a statement out of her. Kara Swisher recalled Katie Cotton saying that her job was to put Apple in a good light and she wasn’t there to make friends with the reporters. I guess that’s controversial if you’re a reporter that expected PR personnel to be friendly with you.
