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Apple Exec Explains Why You Should Use Apple Maps
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I love the 3D models and they are very useful!!
Especially when I am in a hurry and want to go to the nearest pharmacy or restaurant and Siri gives me a place 2000 km away!
Especially when I am in a hurry and want to go to the nearest pharmacy or restaurant and Siri gives me a place 2000 km away!
And with a 1tb iPhone no reason that the entire maps can't be offline. Garmin is around 2GB for the entire US. I routinely go to areas with poor cell coverage and have to use the VW nav in my car which sucks if I do. If my maps were offline and could find POIs, etc I would be extremely happy
They haven’t even bothered localizing the iPhone in Bulgarian yet. Expectedly Apple Maps is pathetic here too and I don’t believe anyone is using it here at all. Waze is a billion years ahead. Yeah, we’re a small and poor country for Apple to bother, I get it. But apparently Google doesn’t think so. I hate it that they track me and I don’t use other Google services but there’s no doubt Google Maps and Waze are so much better I have no other choice.
Still awful. Still redirects you to yell to read reviews. Why won’t they just host their own reviews already lmao
Maps has always been great for me...until they started to clutter it with all these terrible recommendations and curated lists and editors recommendations, etc that I cannot hide and fill my screen instead of recent places or something useful. This is an anti-feature without the ability to turn it off. I live in this city...I dont need tips from someone on what is hot now....I just need to know how to get places.
I love how you noted that London is a major world city as if there could be someone out there in the world that may not know that.
Integration? Next level integration would be if I could highlight an address in an article and get a menu choice of ”Open In Maps”.
I’ve been submitting this “next level” request via feedback app for 5 years. In the meantime it’s still copy and paste address into Maps search box.
Also where is all the AI to understand that the address in typing might be in my area as opposed to a half dozen obscure places in far away countries. That’s just stupid.
These things are not rocket science and are, for me, the benchmarks that maps is arriving.
Ps I use maps but that doesn’t mean I’m pissed that I can look at the fancy graphics but not do simple necessary things.
Ps the lack of advanced traffic speed features really drags it down too.
I’ve been submitting this “next level” request via feedback app for 5 years. In the meantime it’s still copy and paste address into Maps search box.
Also where is all the AI to understand that the address in typing might be in my area as opposed to a half dozen obscure places in far away countries. That’s just stupid.
These things are not rocket science and are, for me, the benchmarks that maps is arriving.
Ps I use maps but that doesn’t mean I’m pissed that I can look at the fancy graphics but not do simple necessary things.
Ps the lack of advanced traffic speed features really drags it down too.
I, too, use maps, but to counter what was suggested:
1) Umm...you think Google and Waze aren't?!
2) "Apple isn't tracking your location for data purposes when you use Apple Maps" - heh - that actually implies that they ARE tracking your location for other, nefarious purposes. A better statement would be "Apple isn't recording your location for historical purposes into their cloud data" - hmm - but that also isn't true *shrug*
3) Cue the FTC guys over how OS makers have an unfair advantage with their apps
This has actually stymied a lot of innovation - for truly immersive GPS enabled apps, you need tight integration with a lot of areas of the OS - something that only the OS providers currently have that level of connectivity with (at least in the case of iOS - not an Android guy - I'm sure someone will correct me)
Not bad considering google had a 10 year lead on them. Apple never wanted to do mapping themselves. It’s really only been a few years since the started mapping for their own data. So, the improvements are impressive. Especially since Google has not stopped investing including purchasing Waze to incorporate their tech.
The fact Google maps doesn’t show your speed is a big let down that’s why I use Waze and Tom Tom also when it was owned by Israelis it was a much better app, since Google took over it has gone down hill even now it doesn’t work right and keeps crashing
I think it’s a privacy thing. Wait until the police figure out these apps are tracking gps speed and that you are connected the Bluetooth in the vehicle registered to you and the car has identified you as the driver.
One “advantage” of apple maps over google maps is the turn by turn font and size is a bit bigger than google maps heh……
Data wise, Sydney, not good enough.
I still use google maps to help finding the destination. Maybe I should try doing short trip navigation test at some point using apple maps.
Data wise, Sydney, not good enough.
I still use google maps to help finding the destination. Maybe I should try doing short trip navigation test at some point using apple maps.
Maps is solid now. Needs to be consistent across devices.
more importantly, I’m not apple should broadcast bundling in this regulatory and political environment.
more importantly, I’m not apple should broadcast bundling in this regulatory and political environment.
First, I woud love to use Apple maps but living in Netherlands it is major step down from Google Maps:
- Netherlands has the most bike tracks in the world per capita but Apple Maps still has no support for bike routes whereas Google does (shame on you Apple)
- POI is not up to par with google maps, roughly half of the POI are not available on Apple Maps
- Netherlands has the most bike tracks in the world per capita but Apple Maps still has no support for bike routes whereas Google does (shame on you Apple)
- POI is not up to par with google maps, roughly half of the POI are not available on Apple Maps
I love the way Apple Maps looks, but searching is still far worse than google maps.
I wanted to search for "Rahway MVC" (DMV in NJ) and Apple Maps was showing me McDonalds in Rahway while google maps shows the actual MVC in rahway.
I wanted to search for "Rahway MVC" (DMV in NJ) and Apple Maps was showing me McDonalds in Rahway while google maps shows the actual MVC in rahway.
That actually makes it worse. They’ve had the blueprint to work from this whole time and it still took them 10 years to get here and it’s still behind in many ways. If they had taken a decade and were the only ones doing it I could understand the slow pace, but they have all the money in the world and someone leading the way for them.
The speed shows up where it should…on my speedometer. Apple Maps does tell you the speed limit of the road however.