Apple is living in a distortion field where they think Apple is invulnerable...
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Yawn. People nowadays are really so quick to jump on Apple.
I love Apple, I love Apple's products and I will continue buying them, but still I have to admit that Apple Maps are plain useless and complete crap. The TECHNICAL basis (like using vectors etc.) may be superior to the previous Google Maps, also they really do look very beautiful, but beyond that, they are crap. Period. In the last few weeks I've travelled to London, Edinburgh, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Lake Constance and Lisbon using Apple Maps, and they SUCK. The POI data is useless, sorry, there's no excuse. I did only very rarely find any location that I was looking for, where Google Maps most of the time provided me with the correct information.
In my own hometown (Cologne, Germany that is) I've provided at least 20 corrections for PLAIN WRONG POIs in my neighborhood MONTHS ago when iOS 6 came out, and NOT A SINGLE ONE has been fixed yet. I've also submitted a few corrections to Google Maps in the last few years, and each one of them had been fixed within a week or so.
While the corrections in Google Maps I've provided had been fairly simple, like a slightly misspelled name, a location pin on the wrong side of the street etc., the corrections for Apple Maps have been for POIs which are just plain wrong. There have been places that haven't been there for DECADES, there are places that have NEVER been there, and there are locations which are just labeled totally wrong or in a location WAY of their real locations. It really is a desaster!