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Apple Plans to Use Data-Collecting Drones in Order to 'Catch Up' With Google Maps
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Apples and oranges. You can safely slow down and use your eyes to use an airport's built-in wayfinding systems -- navigating in a car leaves a whole lot less margin of error when you're hurtling down a road at 60mph surrounded by traffic. When driving, audible turn-by-turn directions are infinitely safer than peering at a map or hunting for road signs, but not so necessary walking through an airport.
Why are you so mad about someone besides you, using indoor navigation? You don't need it so it's useless to everyone? Jeez get over yourself
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Lol signs in airports for hundreds of years. There were signs in airports before there were even airports.
Until I started using interior maps, I was unaware how beneficial they can be. Especially true for large complexes, stations, and similar locations. Far simpler than finding a map display.
It is good to see the improvement - I only play with AMaps periodically. What I do find painfully poor is the map search results. That could really use improving.
Yes, more than just a few...
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2016/05/19Apple-Opens-Development-Office-in-Hyderabad.html
Google owns Waze
Just to be clear, who owns Waze?
All jokes aside, even though Google owns Waze, it doesn't mean Apple can't buy it. Now, it may not be likely Google will sell, but they could.
Imagine you go into a building and read the directory and follow the easy to read and follow signs, while your phone says no service or only gives you one bar, due to all the concrete, bricks and metal framing in buildings.
And, since nobody has their hands full with luggage in airports while traveling, it's just better to pull out and hold a phone.
Even more crazy to assume or ask people to read signs, we totally agree!
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler!
Imagine you go into a building and the directory and signs are missing here and there or are outdated and aren't all that helpful. Imagine that what you are looking for is perhaps not something that is on most signs because it's not important enough or perhaps is new or recently changed. Imagine you are in another country and don't really know the language. Imagine you lookup the building information prior to leaving for the building or while you are on the way to the building (let's say you are taking public transportation or something like that). Quite a bit to imagine--much of it based on what happens quite a bit in reality--beyond just a small limited set of things.
Well yea theoretically but google already use Waze reports in their google maps app. So HIGHLY unlikely.
From what I read google lets Waze run independently.
I just listed the two things that Google wanted in return for navigation. Branding and Latitude. Hardly significant.
Do you know of any other?
I think Apple simply no longer wanted to be in a position where someone else could dictate any terms to them. Also, Apple decided to try to get into Google market areas because of Jobs' "thermonuclear war" kick.
Thus Apple decided to make their own ad network, maps, etc. The only thing missing is Apple trying to come up with their own search engine, although it looks like they took Microsoft's money to set Siri's default to Bing.
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Apple rightfully so got an enormous amount of back lash,
Imagine you update your phone and find suddenly you can't look up transit anymore?
I remember how furious people were here in NYC.
Apple took away google maps and replaced it with a broken piece of crap. It ended up getting Scott Forstall fired.
True for most of the US, considering I travel across it every year. It's definitely much more polished in major cities. Can't speak for outside the US
It's very simple. Maps are very important to a lot of different and popular smartphone/tablet/pc functions. If Apple leaves the field to Google, all those functions become hostage to whatever Google feels like doing with their IOS map app. The whole reason Apple developed Maps in the first place was because Google wasn't keeping its iOS app as up-to-date as the Android version. That could become a massive competitive DIS-advantage to Apple, hence Apple Maps.
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Space is not the issue here but having an annoying useless program like Apple Maps being there and popping up every time I want to use it's alternative is. Being able to delete / hide / nuke whatever to get rid of it is better than nothing.
You have some reading issues. I did not say there were signs in airports for hundreds of years, I said signs have been around for hundreds of years.
I agree and disagree. I agree that many airports (and like) try their best to have good signs/symbols to help navigation. And they general work.
I disagree at the same time.. because there are many languages and situations (eg, stores) where signs don't work that well. If you are Japanese and travelling in Egypt (or vice versa). Most signage is in the local language plus English, combined with some symbols to help non-English speakers. I'm not referring to just airports.
Just like signs for streets can be confusing.... signs in airports, terminals, malls can be confusing too. Having a device could be helpful.