Mike Wuerthele

Beats said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

spacekid said:

DAalseth said:

Or it could be a bunch of Yahoos on Twitter wanted to cause “outrage” and planted a false story. Twitter is good for that. Alternatively a Yahoo on Twitter had a problem with their phone and tried to blame Apple on Twitter to produce “outrage” among like minded Yahoos.

Anything from Twitter is suspect. 

No, it was real. I saw it first hand. If it were a traffic issue, it seems that it would re-route you from another direction. There are many, many ways to get into DC. More likely, a map technician did not like Biden opponents going to DC and caused the issue which was later fixed after complaints mounted.

The only problem with your theory, is that everybody for the protest yesterday was already here when the alleged issue was happening. In fact, the protests had begun three hours before.

At no point were directions to addresses unavailable.

Wouldn't this be some advanced tech from Apple if protesters were on the road causing traffic problems, so Maps updated accordingly? Sort of like a parade or a street fair would?

That would be awesome and helpful.

spacekid said:

DAalseth said:

Or it could be a bunch of Yahoos on Twitter wanted to cause “outrage” and planted a false story. Twitter is good for that. Alternatively a Yahoo on Twitter had a problem with their phone and tried to blame Apple on Twitter to produce “outrage” among like minded Yahoos.

Anything from Twitter is suspect. 

No, it was real. I saw it first hand. If it were a traffic issue, it seems that it would re-route you from another direction. There are many, many ways to get into DC. More likely, a map technician did not like Biden opponents going to DC and caused the issue which was later fixed after complaints mounted.

bulk001 said:

tommikele said:

fastasleep said:

SpamSandwich said:

There are a series of assertions in this article unsupported by evidence. Why not just say Maps is down in the area for unexplained reasons? Or contact Apple and ask for an explanation.

Which assertions are unsupported by evidence

Not too much meat between his slices of bread. It’s all spam.

@tommikele What a classic response! Made me almost snort my milk through my nose I don’t think I have ever agreed with @SpamSandwich on anything and don’t on this but could someone at Apple have deliberately messed with the results? It is as unlikely as a qualified pharmacist destroying 500 doses of vaccine but ... it happens. I would agree that the most obvious and likely reason is technical glitches or observed traffic pattern deviations (they are preparing for demonstrations and counter rallies there today). IF it was a deliberate act it shows the power of the overall system to have one person cause any serious long term disruption though. And IF it was deliberate, it would come out soon enough and would duly be covered here and gloated over by SpamSandwich.

elijahg said:

I pass judgment of the name itself, but this exactly is what keeps catching the ire of regulators, and getting Apple into hot water. Something that has apparently been fine for years is suddenly not, either due to a reinterpretation of the existing rules which haven’t changed; or more likely someone in a higher position at Apple has noticed the name and doesn’t like it. It’s not fair. 

At least the dev can continue to offer their app outside the App Store. I don’t know anyone who actually uses the Mac App Store anyway, I never do as I can’t stand the babying the sandboxing enforces.