Is it really "fanboys in this forum" or "strawmen in your imagination".
yeah must have been imagining an apology from the CEO
oh wait
Is it really "fanboys in this forum" or "strawmen in your imagination".
yeah must have been imagining an apology from the CEO
oh wait
please Apple, don't fire me....
oh...i forgot..
thanks god, i don't work for Apple
How come he was fired for a map issue which is not that big of a deal when no one was fired for the antenna issue on the iPhone 4???
How come he was fired for a map issue which is not that big of a deal when no one was fired for the antenna issue on the iPhone 4???
and yet there are still fanboys in this forum insisting nothing is wrong with Apple Maps.
MacRumors said:"Cue, who took over last month as part of a management shakeup, is seeking advice from outside mapping-technology experts and prodding digital maps provider TomTom NV to fix landmark and navigation data it shares with Apple."
They should buy Waze - awesome social interaction and brilliant interface for reporting issues and crowdsourcing is already there with speed, etc... then put their gorgeous cartography on top of it.
For a first venture, Apple's maps is actually quite elegant in many aspects. I'm sure the next iteration will be quite an improvement.
I had my TomTom GO 2435 on my dash along side my iPhone 4S to compare the mapping. I saw no evidence of true re-routing or crowdsourcing as promised in Apple's mapping. After a month of testing them side by side, I stopped using Apple's maps.
Then, I started using Waze - and tested that side by side w/ my TomTom for a month. The Waze app won hands-down. Not 'perfect,' but close enough - and a lot more intuitive menus than TomTom.
I LOVE Waze for navigating road hazards, reporting police activity and for traffic and re-routing - beats the pants off Google & TomTom big time. Apple+Waze would be too awesome for words.
It would be best if they could have fixed this before the mess happened, but it did so at this point it makes it look like the problem has been recognized and they are doing something about it.How this happened originally is crazy. Firing people now is too late - the mess already happened.
Flew into Dallas, rented a car and drove to Austin last weekend for the race...
I found TWO absolutely fundamental errors in the Apple IOS6 Maps turn-by-turn directions.
Fortunately the wife still has Google maps on her iPhone and she was able to correct me before we ended up on a major detour through the hinterland.
It's sad to watch "The Decline and Fall of the Apple Empire" in real-time, but as we all know nothing lasts forever.
How come he was fired for a map issue which is not that big of a deal when no one was fired for the antenna issue on the iPhone 4???
Yeah, Google has spent many years and lots of moolah to make their maps work.Maybe he was useless, who knows. But the problem with Apple's Maps is not the software itself - that's actually pretty good. It's that the data underpinning it is not as good as Google's.
That is hard to rectify without time and/or money thrown at it.
Apple plz put back Google maps ( with Turn-by-turn) as an option...
Google Maps started in 2005 and was in beta for 6 months. It was unrealistic to catch up and leap beyond them in the year or two Apple had in my opinion. Anyone from the Tim Cook down should have realized this wasn't ready for primetime. It probably should have been released as a beta like Siri, while keeping Google's Maps app as a secondary option until iOS7.
Well if that's the case, I'm VERY happy that Apple didn't acquiesce to Google's demands.Google's refusal to grant Turn-by-Turn to their Maps application unless they were granted access to all of our user data is one of the major reasons we're in this mess.
So what do you suggest they do? Keep the people responsible on staff and give up?