Still no universal browser access and off-line caching not on par with Google Maps which has saved my butt in dead cell spots. Google Maps still king.
Google lets you opt out of location tracking. You can log in to your Google dashboard and see all of the information they collect about you, and if you've opted out of location history, you won't see any there. I honestly don't understand people's fear of Google. Their privacy terms are clear, they give you easy access to see and delete any data they've collected about you, for some things they let you opt out of the data collection altogether, and they only use your data to show you targeted ads and improve their products. They don't sell your data.
That said, I prefer Apple Maps. But it has nothing to do with privacy concerns.
So people getting lost due to maps is a joke now? That’s pretty sad because when I trust a company to get me to my location and they don’t, it hurts the brand and trust with the customers. I can’t trust Apple after the hot mess Maps roll out was because it was clear Apple was way over their heads thinking they could tackle the task.
So people getting lost due to maps is a joke now? That’s pretty sad because when I trust a company to get me to my location and they don’t, it hurts the brand and trust with the customers. I can’t trust Apple after the hot mess Maps roll out was because it was clear Apple was way over their heads thinking they could tackle the task.
Overhyped: Apple claimed Apple Maps was, "the most beautiful, powerful mapping service... ever" ← (emphasis mine)Define "overhyped" and "not ready for prime time"? While it was clear, at the time, that Apple Maps wasn't anywhere near as good as Google Maps at the time that it came out, it was a perfectly good 1.0 product - better, actually, than most company's 1.0 products. It's only failure, really, was in not being as good as Google Maps right off the bat.
Please show me the form from google and tell me the cost so I can buy my neighbor s data.
Can you spot the difference between your original assertion and your reply to my question?A question you still haven't answered btw.
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Nope. Don't have the "Automatically" option. Just the other two. Latest iOS 12 beta build. Perhaps it is because I am using a 5S.View attachment 822553 Nothing like this? Odd.
Google does not sell your data. That's just a lie. Trying to massage a different meaning from that term is simply willful deflection. Google sells ad space based on anonymized data. Advertisers have no idea who you are. There's no way in heck they'd sell it. It's their most valuable asset.Had to read back and forth a few times, Google sells your data, I know they anonymize it but it's still your data.
More deflection. You not having a gmail account or google services has nothing to do with this conversation.I don't have a Gmail account, don't use Google services yet they still know who I am. They are everywhere, tracing you from site to site, don't think there are many sites with Google tracking you.
Google does not sell your data. That's just a lie. Trying to massage a different meaning from that term is simply willful deflection. Google sells ad space based on anonymized data. Advertisers have no idea who you are. There's no way in heck they'd sell it. It's their most valuable asset.
More deflection. You not having a gmail account or google services has nothing to do with this conversation.
Overhyped: Apple claimed Apple Maps was, "the most beautiful, powerful mapping service... ever" ← (emphasis mine)
They literally removed that quote from the website. So yeah, overhyped.
Not ready for prime time: incorrect directions, incorrect landmarks, incorrectly located landmarks, melting roads... it was a mess. A mess Apple apologized for making. It was not a perfectly good 1.0 product. Trying to lessen it's poor quality by comparing it to some hypothetical "other company's 1.0 product" doesn't work.
I don't need a memory refresh. You, however, may want to read my quote again. The only accurate words in my quote are all of them. That quote, "the most beautiful, powerful mapping service... ever", was posted on Apple's website describing Apple Maps. Soon afterwards they changed it to "a beautiful vector-based interface that scales and zooms with ease". That's a far cry from most beautiful, powerful mapping service ever. As I said, overhyped.Complete BS. I attended the WWDC keynote in which Maps was announced. The statement you claim was never uttered. The only accurate word in your quote is "beautiful". If you'd like refresh your memory, go to- announcement of Maps happens at 1:38:40.
You don’t understand how retail/advertising works obviously.So where from google can I buy the location data of my neighbor? Where can I order this info from?
Why are the paparazzi/media not buying this private info of celebrities from google?
The claims that Apple Maps is not good can be placed under the "it's not 2012 anymore" file.Agreed, the joke is getting old, Maps came a long way and surpassed Google Maps in many ways, and in the meantime won't sell that data or have dubious privacy standards.
I live in Norman, Oklahoma, and saw a Maps vehicle last fall. It was traveling northbound on Jenkins Avenue at its intersection with Timberdell Road, and while it's a fairly significant thoroughfare in Norman, it's not a route that I'd expect one to take if they were just "passing through," especially not on an interstate trip.To our best knowledge, the only states that Apple has yet to confirm surveying are Arkansas and Oklahoma, although Twitter users have spotted the vehicles in both states since last year and perhaps earlier. It's possible the vehicles were only passing through those states without collecting mapping data.
Just curious, might weak cell signal be the cause with how it affects the accuracy? I was using Google Maps in Kauai (I know, different island)and had problems (from picking up current location to delayed response) due to weak cell signals.I'm sure the maps are just fine in many places, but here on the Big Island, they've got some work to do.
Not long ago I had an address pop up on a website, and for whatever reason, when I clicked on it Apple Maps came up (I wasn't using Safari). The location didn't look right to me . . . and google maps showed that it was about .5 mile away from the true location.
Last year I had a friend who foolishly asked Siri to guide him from the Kona Airport to my house . . . he was taken all the way downtown (about 4 miles beyond where anybody else, including Google, would have turned him, and then 3 miles back up to my house.
I realize this may seem like just another one of those "but it doesn't work for me..." postings, and I'm sorry about that. Really, though, -- on this island, in my experience, Apple Maps is not reliable. This is especially true in the rural areas.
If it makes you feel better, they are still entertaining.Hey, I'm not that bad at Photoshopping…
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Not bull, many agree and switched solely to Apple Maps, Google Maps has more mistakes than Apple Maps nowadays, you're living in the past as some others do, as I said before, the joke is getting old.