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Apple Issues Statement Over Day 1 'Maps' Glitches, Maps Team Reportedly Under Lockdown to Fix Issues
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The app says that half of my neighborhood is missing. I went outside and checked, just to be sure, and it's still there.
Put it back in the oven. It's not done yet.
Put it back in the oven. It's not done yet.
Holy piece of *****! I used it driving through Minneapolis today and the turn by turn kept telling me to turn on cross street while I was driving down a major highway. Obviously that's not possible. It also tried to take me on the worst route (traffic wise) possibly. Siri was Beta so I get that it was supposed to be bad. What's the excuse for this being so ridiculously bad? There's no way Jobs would have released this. I was shocked how bad it was. Really? Did they even test it???
I was looking forward to Passbook. After updating, all I can think is...meh.
Spot on my friend!
I guess they should have listened to what Johnny Ive had to say in the iMac (2010, I think) release video: "...rather than just being consumed by reinvention, this is one of those fantastic opportunities to be very clear about what's right and that we don't want to change, so that we can put all of our energies behind improving those aspects of the product that we can make better..."
It was kind of clear to me from the beginning that Apple didn't intend their Maps app to be the be-all and end-all of mapping. It gives them ownership of map data they can integrate with other applications, that's good, but mostly I think they're fielding a solution to spur development among competitors. Apple has done this in other areas too.
Google's had turn by turn support in Android, and has been promising it for iPhone but has never delivered it.
http://mashable.com/2010/04/22/free-turn-by-turn-google-directions-iphone/
Apple just stirred the pot to keep Google from sticking to the side.
It used to frustrate me that Apple would come out with great ideas like iWork, iPhoto, etc and then essentially stop development just when things are getting good. What I've realized is that they're trying to encourage others to innovate in these areas by seeding the market with ideas and providing a baseline competitor ("you must be at least this good to enter").
Google's had turn by turn support in Android, and has been promising it for iPhone but has never delivered it.
http://mashable.com/2010/04/22/free-turn-by-turn-google-directions-iphone/
Apple just stirred the pot to keep Google from sticking to the side.
It used to frustrate me that Apple would come out with great ideas like iWork, iPhoto, etc and then essentially stop development just when things are getting good. What I've realized is that they're trying to encourage others to innovate in these areas by seeding the market with ideas and providing a baseline competitor ("you must be at least this good to enter").
I read Apple spends the least amount of money in Research and Development than many of its competitors. Don't know if that helps.
But they didn't remove any existing "ticketbooks" to add in passbook. So whatever passbook is (even if it's just like the Beta had it, a big image showing you "hey, you'll have tickets and coupons here eventually!"), we've gained something.
Not the case with Maps...
As much as "Logic Pro" may suck on ML (I wouldn't know as I don't use it), the bigger failure of logic appears to be your own.
Your use of the word "again" implies Logic Pro used to work acceptably in your old OS, yet you upgraded your production system OS without testing to see if the app you use to make a living still worked? Oops. You do have a backup you can restore don't you?
Oh, that is too funny... If that picture goes viral, Apple's going to have a major PR headache to deal with.
You bet!
They really screwed on that one!
This mostly has to do with the mass media catching hold of it. My morning radio show which never discuss tech were discussing it. When they are, you know it's more than just underground tech blogs that spotted the issue...
Maybe they could have just tested it, say for instance, in the US. You know, it's largest market.
kind of true
I google the washington monument and they don't have the pin over the actual tower either...but I digress.
As for the google pic where the actual college campus buildings are...is that something Google has done, or is that something that some person submitted to Google and then google approved it?
Apple says their map is in the "cloud"....so as people submit items, they will appear. Let's be real here, Google has had 7 years headstart on this....IMO, the only thing Apple should of had locked down was the streets....the 3d stuff I'm not so worried about if it doesn't work straight out of the box.....but they should of concentrated on the maps.
I google the washington monument and they don't have the pin over the actual tower either...but I digress.
As for the google pic where the actual college campus buildings are...is that something Google has done, or is that something that some person submitted to Google and then google approved it?
Apple says their map is in the "cloud"....so as people submit items, they will appear. Let's be real here, Google has had 7 years headstart on this....IMO, the only thing Apple should of had locked down was the streets....the 3d stuff I'm not so worried about if it doesn't work straight out of the box.....but they should of concentrated on the maps.
My Map Works Good so far
Hay, I actually been using my GPS so far I navigated to like 4 or 5 places and its good, I know Apple will make it right
Hay, I actually been using my GPS so far I navigated to like 4 or 5 places and its good, I know Apple will make it right
But Google Maps was excellent when it was released. It was the only thing of it's kind.
Apple's mapping isn't half as decent as Google's, which has been around for over 7 years. There was no reason to abandon Google's.
Uh ? When Google released their maps, I had been using Mapquest for a good few years already. Google wasn't first to market by a long shot. They did improve a lot on what other free mapping providers were offering though.
The reason was quite simple really. They're trying to remove Google's hold on iOS.
Not on that scale. There's tech press PR nightmares, and late night TV monologue PR nightmares. The first kind are fairly easy to resolve by fixing the underlying problems, the second are nearly impossible to dislodge from people minds. People don't want to hear that it's been fixed, because the jokes are too funny.