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Just let it go already. This is never going to happen. Even if they did continue selling it, they wouldn't bother. It doesn't make any sense for them developing firmware for a legacy device. Apple Insider should know better instead of writing such clickbait about something that is obviously a beta glitch.

No to choose Apple's side here, but I find AM to work very well in the US, Europe and even South Africa. It prefers main roads over little local roads only to shave of one minute of driving, it provides a realistic ETA and it has the nicest of all interfaces.

What it absolutely sucks at is search. But let's face it: Apple is very bad at search, even in the App Store. It doesn't have fuzzy search and it doesn't take your location or context into account. As a result, it shows search destinations at the other side of the world. Even very easy searches like IKEA are wrong: last week I didn't show the stores in my country in order of distance so it suggested one further away (while it knew all of them).

Other weak point of AM are missing road works on local roads. Waze (and consequently its integration in Google Maps) has the upper hand here. Apple will never achieve such a fine grained maze of local data.

While I'm quite impressed with the keynote yesterday, I'm surprised they're still not tackling search. 

flydog said:

22july2013 said:

And for AppleInsider articles that apply only to the USA, as many do (due to product availability only in the USA, including some Apple products) the article should start with "This product review applies only to people who live in the USA." I am unhappy when I get halfway through an article on AI only to find that nothing in the article applies to us non-US customers.

Did you notice the .com at the end of the URL?  When I surf a .uk or .tw website I don’t expect it to be very relevant to the US. 

A .com domain is intended for (worldwide) commercial use. It’s not linked to the US. That’s what the .us domain is for. 

Apple will never allow other navigation apps on CarPlay. If they do that, a lot of people would jump ship. I personally like Maps. If only it had decent Search and more reliable roadwork reports. 

hexclock said:

Soli said:

The increased ASP shows that consumer interest is high, but they could kill the iPhone X like they killed the original iPhone. In many ways this model is like the original iPhone so I wouldn’t be surprised if that happened, but I also see no evidence that it will be completely doscpntinued for a better and more cost effective design.

As an anniversary edition iPhone I sort of expected it to be a one off, special model, just like the 20th anniv. Macintosh and the 50th anniv. Marshall tube amp. 
The tech in the phone will end up in the regular lineup of course. 

When introducing the iPhone X, Apple clearly did say this was where the future of iPhone is headed. I’m 100% convinced all future iPhones will go in this direction. Apple never looks back.