Yep, it's just one guy. And give him a break, his feet are really tired from walking up and down all those streets.
I understand why you don't want to merely "flick a switch", but good God, between flicking the switch and this there's still quite a world of bringing coverage a little faster.
What would be the point of Apple rolling out half assed transit directions that don't offer more than the competition. People would try it and reject it and go back to what they were using. If Apple wants to win people over, they have to do it right the first time. Your bare minimum method gave us iOS 6 Maps, how did that work out for Apple and customers?
Apple seems to have one team working on Canadian cities, Toronto, Montreal, now Vancouver so Calgary is probably next.
Well, at the rate they are going they may have most major American metros by the end of the year. And then it gets even easier because the largest and most complicated transit systems will be done. It'll be a lot less work to add Indy's bus routes than it was to add the entire NE Corridor.
Indeed. I use Apple Maps all the time, and it's quite nice in its current incarnation (with the added benefit that you can bring things up by asking Siri), but the initial rollout was pretty bad. And now, years later, there are a ton of people who will argue quite strongly that Apple Maps is horrible - and not just that it's horrible, but everyone knows this and you must be an uninformed fool for using it - and it turns out the majority of them haven't touched Apple Maps since the first few weeks after it debuted. But it's such "common knowledge" that Apple Maps is bad, because of that initial impression, and they're so confident that this is true, that they'll never revisit it. Rolling out "half-assed transit directions for everywhere" would be a terrible idea, that could cause more damage to the public's perception of the app.
Apple Maps is still horrible depending on how you use it. If you search for a landmark or location using anything other than the EXACT wording Apple has (usually the "official title" but not always), you end up with zero results. If you're in one city and search for Street Ave., when it's actually Street St. , it will direct you to a Street Ave. on the other side of the country. If you use transit, it continues to be useless in most of the world's major cities. It is a failed product, one of Apple's worst.
