This is willful attempt to make Apple use G software so that they could then sue Apple. Well, for Google which is used to stealing others' IP, might be a normal suggestion. But not to people who innovate themselves.
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Apple Turning to Select Retail Store Employees to Help Improve Maps for iOS 6
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This is willful attempt to make Apple use G software so that they could then sue Apple. Well, for Google which is used to stealing others' IP, might be a normal suggestion. But not to people who innovate themselves.
Edited: By the way, Steve Jobs knew that Apple wasn't made for maps because they had no background in doing maps. This is why Steve wanted to hire someone who have extensive background on maps (google, garmin...)
Google is using a vehicle with 9 cameras mounted to gather data. Apple not-so-Genius (wearing different T-Shirt) riding on a moped with iPad/iPhone is going collect the the information.
There is car rental location with a front desk sign to call the phone number if customer needs help. We may face similar situations in Apple stores.
Here is an article on how Google collects data. Interestingly non of the US Media covered this.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19536269
There is car rental location with a front desk sign to call the phone number if customer needs help. We may face similar situations in Apple stores.
Here is an article on how Google collects data. Interestingly non of the US Media covered this.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19536269
Yea right. Like after this PR hit Apple has just taken they are gonna *instantly* post your data along with others with no oversight -- forget thinking that they haven't received MILLIONS of reports just like yours or mine I sent in.
I'm confident they looking for a faster, more reliable fix BEFORE letting user data define it's mapping future.
Do some of you even breathe before posting?
What's the fuss?
I haven't had any issues with the app and I have been outside Seattle, Portland, NYC, and Southern Indiana. It saved me quite a few times while in NYC. I remember back when Google released their maps and it got me lost quite a few times.
I haven't had any issues with the app and I have been outside Seattle, Portland, NYC, and Southern Indiana. It saved me quite a few times while in NYC. I remember back when Google released their maps and it got me lost quite a few times.
Haven't used to error reporting much yourself? It's good for fixing a POI (maybe) and that's it. Doing something a little harder either means you have to explain it in great detail through text or through an address!?!. I have tried to remove a mislabeled route through error reporting and I don't even know if the damn thing is submitting it. Moving pins around also seems buggy as hell, it sometimes just drop them, it seems to snap to a grid most times and essentially they should have noted if this is meant to be store-front or anything else. There are no conventions explained and since the current POI's are totally random, they are impossible to use for guidance.
This is a joke to use on iDevices.
My guess is that first wave of corrections will coincide with release of newer iPad minis. Anyway surely iOS should be updated to support the new hardware. Thats a good chance to make Apple Maps version 1.1
You repeated it so many times that its not funny anymore. Or interesting. Just like an programmed.
Post office? They even keep databases! Apple should buy the USPS (which is in financial trouble anyways) and enlist them with camera/backpacks.
Too bad there are no Apple Stores in my country (Finland). The nearest one seems to be in Sweden, but I doubt any of those employees understand Finnish.
I always thought that you can find Finnish Swedes if necessary. But you won't need Sweden as a local focus base. It can be straight to Finland-US pipeline.
This comment has hit the nail square on the head. It's time they started spending some of their cash to improve the experience of their loyal customers, rather than taking their hard-earned money and p*ssing all over them.
The real interesting part of this story is the mention of this "internal portal" that the employees will have to submit errors and make corrections. Is this their Map Maker? Is this something that may eventually be released to the public at large? Are the Apple Store employees acting as beta testers of this tool?
Reporters, Report!
Reporters, Report!
Why not?
Most of the data included in the app as it stands was clearly done with no oversight whatsoever?
What makes you think this isn't part of that followup effort? I think it's a smart use of an existing resource.
If thats true, doubling oversight is even more important though even the 1.0 version is not end of the world. I remember that it took 2-3 iterations for OS X to become a best desktop OS as we know it by now.
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Using Apple Store employees is just one part of the task. There are multiple reports of headhunting for top quality staff as well.
I visit quite a few forums and i'm a Moderator on a Football forum and I have to say this place is the most negative place on the internet.
Any sort of good news gets turned into bad.
Try video game forums.
Eh? I'm not saying people shouldn't push for Apple to do better. I'm saying people should probably calm down a bit and make sense or maybe at the very least stop contradicting themselves between various BREAKING stories that hit Twitter and Facebook. You know, make sense so you can effectively express what you want to Apple.
The recent report is incredibly flawed. It is based off data usage and the new maps caches the vector data. The initial few days saw a whole lot of downloading of new maps which has since tapered off because the devices have all cached the data in each person's local area. Also, Apple Maps is 5 to 7 times more efficient on data than the old Google-based solution even when it does have to pull data from the server.
Waze (which Android fans loved until Apple started using them) + TomTom (which lots of people loved until Apple started using them) + user-submitted improvements from millions of iOS 6 users + Apples own internal improvements such as this program = pretty good maps pretty quick!