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Apple Transitions 'Find My iPhone' Web Maps for iCloud.com From Google to Apple
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So what? Should people be okay with a sub-par service simply because it's newer?
Well at least Apple can be my excuse now.
Wife: WTF were you doing at the love hotel? I logged into your account and saw your phone in Shibuya!
Me: Huh? No no no, Find my iPhone is Apple now. It's all wrong. It's all a big mistake. Don't you remember Apple Maps honey?
Wife: Oh right. Sorry! Never mind!
Wife: WTF were you doing at the love hotel? I logged into your account and saw your phone in Shibuya!
Me: Huh? No no no, Find my iPhone is Apple now. It's all wrong. It's all a big mistake. Don't you remember Apple Maps honey?
Wife: Oh right. Sorry! Never mind!
Not likely. Google relies on a lot of map data provided by some of the best mapping companies in the world, and some of these companies have been making maps since well before Apple was even created.
I mean love Google maps but comments like this one of yours are a joke.
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Exactly, but people tend to forget a lot. Google maps was never great from the firs year. It took them a decade to perfect it to what it is now.
And that would be nice, if the satellite data wasn't also awful:
I hate to say it, but Apple Maps isn't even ready for a beta in some places. A worldwide rollout makes no sense.
In my case when I was driving from Ft. Lauderdale to Atlanta, Google Maps gave me no notification of traffic issues at all. It just modified my route during navigation without saying anything or giving me any visual cues as to what was going on or why a reroute was necessary.
The route modification it made made zero logical sense. For anyone who's not familiar with I-75 in Georgia, the logical detour if there's an accident on I-75 is to use US 41 as an alternate since it largely parallels I-75 through the entire state.
Instead, Google Maps was telling me to get off I-75, drive about 80 miles west to Columbus, GA, then get on I-185 and take that to I-85 and then continue on toward Atlanta. It made absolutely no sense and Google Maps tried telling me to take that same bogus route three times before I finally just closed the app.
Hmm sorry man. I don't know where you live... maybe the images are just bad there but it might help to zoom out a little bit to see it clearer.
Here's my satellite view
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but I found someone elses and had to come to macrumours to find out who's it is
Yeah, it's like this in many place in Sweden as well as in other parts of Europe. But that's my point: if it's not ready here, don't release it yet. Google Maps has much better maps here.
I agree! I wish software companies would stop changing their products until they've fully tested them out! I rely on Find My IPhone to track my kids, especially my oldest who just started driving, and the new maps are horrendous. The old ones told me exactly where the kids were and now I get maps that give a vague location that could be halfway across town or different if you zoom in or out. As a parent I find this switch to be extremely frustrating. People may not like Google Maps but you can't possibly think this is better.
I agree! I wish software companies would stop changing their products until they've fully tested them out! I rely on Find My IPhone to track my kids, especially my oldest who just started driving, and the new maps are horrendous. The old ones told me exactly where the kids were and now I get maps that give a vague location that could be halfway across town or different if you zoom in or out. As a parent I find this switch to be extremely frustrating. People may not like Google Maps but you can't possibly think this is better.
Yeah, I came here to find out if anybody else was having this issue. It seems like the maps show one section that is then repeated and tiled across the screen with blank strips in between. And the location of the phone changes when you zoom.
Heh, and now nobody can find their iPhone. At least not where I'm at anyway. So many mistakes in Apple Maps it's kinda unbelievable. Just checked now and they still think there is a bank down my road. The building says BANK on the stonework but it has been an off license since the 70s at least.