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Apple Issues Statement Over Day 1 'Maps' Glitches, Maps Team Reportedly Under Lockdown to Fix Issues

Apple's Maps IS sick! And it's gonna get even better.

It's already leaps and bounds ahead of Google in terms of 3D Mapping image quality and landscape (Cars, Trees, Geography, Etc)

Couple glitches.... pfff... duh... they mapped and rendered the world.

I for one, think it is great.

I remember when google maps came out, and pretty much sucked all around for quite a while.
 
I actually think maps is actually pretty good. It probably helps I'm in New York. But def needs improvements
 
Translation: We know it sucks, but it's all we have for now since we're trying to get rid of Google, and we had to meet the release date. Bear with us. After all, we did improve Siri, right?
 
≥and you're not coming out until you've fixed it!

More like Smackdown!

There's a definite taste of the Mobile Me fiasco.

I can't understand how A Maps has gone live in such a poor state after the acquisitions, talent and money that Apple have to throw at it. It's all very well saying 'Oh Google Maps has been 7 years in the making, Apple Maps will get there', and I'm sure the app will - it's already snappier and sharper than G Maps. But it's too half-baked and simply NOT GOOD ENOUGH to be let out into the big wrld without Beta slapped all over it's lo-res imagery and blank panes!
 
Great news! Oh wait, this means the geo team will have to stay under lockdown for 6 years just to catch up today's Google Maps.

This is officially the first major Apple screwup since SJ passed away. Schiller and Forstall are a bunch of bozos for releasing this POS that clearly wasn't ready to replace Google Maps.
 
I8P'CS said:
Love Apple but this yearly "200 new features" is getting silly now same with osx i never see 200 changes or even use them.
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Many features are country or language-specific. iOS caters to a world audience so you will never use many of those features.
 
Apple is scrambling to show some type of improvement prior to the clock expiring on the time to approval of Google's stand-alone app being approved. They know they have to approve it to avoid an even greater backlash, but they do not want to concede all users to it straight away.

It can't be fun to be the team on "lock down" right now.
 
Eddyisgreat said:
Yes. Keeping their jobs.

I don't think Apple is the type of culture that rewards folks for doing their jobs.

I understand that managers are under time constraints and sometimes executive decision says to release an app anyway and fix it later, so i would try to reward my team if they worked round the clock to fix issues.

But I don't think that's how Apple operates.
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But at the same token you should not expect developers to have to work insanely extra hours. Apple demanded to much with not enough time to do it.

Sorry but you should budget 40 hour weeks for your stuff. Apple knew months ago that maps was not ready. You can only do more htan 40 hour weeks for a short time before your returns are just not worth it. After just a few 60 hour weeks for example you are going to get less out of your people than they could do in 40 plus you have to deal with the weeks it takes for them to recover.
 
Rodimus Prime said:
I think it is a joke on the fact that they knew from well before the release that the Apple Maps was crap. Hell the people who had the beta have been saying the maps have been crap from day one.

I also believe I said from way back then that it was going to be crap based on the first beta and people screamed oh it is a beta.....
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But they also know their customer base well and that no matter what they turn out, people will still line up to buy it and make excuses about the shortcomings.
 
iOS 6 maps are a whole new level of suck. I want so badly to be onboard with this update but it's getting harder to rationalize the opposing arguments. Poorly played.
 
"We appreciate all of the customer feedback and are working hard to make the customer experience even better."

Good because it can't get any worse!!
 
Credit Apple for coming forward and issuing a statement so soon. How many tech companies have issues with products and simple ignore them, and NEVER issue a statement, or when they do is a bogus BS statement.
 
jgg204 said:
When Apple PR's department says "Under Lockdown" do they mean paid overtime or Foxconn chinese labor lock down? I highly doubt the Apple executive team is forcing its six figure programmers to eat and sleep at the Apple HQ. That would be pretty funny though if they did. Whoever screwed up the Brooklyn Bridge should have to eat maggoty rice over the weekend.

It would bring a whole new twist to "debugging"
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Lockdown as in they won't let you die if you jump out of the window. That's real lockdown.
 
In my experience, it's already pretty good. If they're getting this much feedback, it could be awesome.

I don't understand how Google Maps never got any better. Just last year it was still showing me malls located in the middle of cornfields, Verizon stores on the wrong side of a 10-lane highway, and all sorts of other major errors. And this is in big cities like Houston and Atlanta. How have they not caught obvious bugs like this in the 8 years since they rolled it out? It seems like either nobody gives them feedback, or they just ignore it...
 
I'm one of the few who are actually quite impressed with the new maps, but then again I live in a large city in the U.S. so I haven't have any issues (yet). But I do hope they spend some of those billions of $$ and make it a darn good maps app soon. They really are tearing it up in the media.
 
Oletros said:
But if the problem is bad dat and it is provided by TomTom or other companies, it is not easy to fix
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That's the thing; it's good to know Apple are working on it, but they need to improve the data more than the app itself.

Secrecy is not appropriate for things like this. Apple should have launched a beta on the AppStore to get this data before launch.

This was the worst product since mobileMe. It's good that they're on lockdown, since ultimately we ended up with iCloud from that disaster (which, while not perfect, is about a million times better and more ambitious)
 
ChuckG said:
Great news! Oh wait, this means the geo team will have to stay under lockdown for 6 years just to catch up today's Google Maps.

This is officially the first major Apple screwup since SJ passed away. Schiller and Forstall are a bunch of bozos for releasing this POS that clearly wasn't ready to replace Google Maps.
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They released what they had, ready or not. Going back to Google Maps wasn't an option since they already cancelled their license.

This is a screw up, but they had screw-ups under Jobs, too. At least they didn't say we're holding it wrong.
 
I prefer Apple maps over Google maps. It looks clear and rotates freely. I haven't used street views in Google maps nor 3d views in Apple maps. :p
 
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