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Apple's New iOS 6 Maps App Drawing Significant Criticism

I'll say that Google definitely has a lot of bumps and has sent me to the wrong place multiple times.

I do think I expected more out of the Apple maps though and it definitely needs a lot more polishing.
 
T. Durden said:
This has nothing to do with Apple going thermonuclear on Google and everything to do with Google hindering Apple's ability to move forward and innovate. For example, Google restricting APIs that would allow Apple to implement turn-by-turn navigation.



This is Google's doing. What other choice did Apple have?
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Oh I don't know how about continuing to License Google Maps from Google for the iPhone and spend another year or 2 actually making Apple Maps work properly before removing your own customers choice for them...
 
TomTom are saying its the same data that they use themselves. How can this be, there are errors all over the place in the UK. Either Apple have totally messed up the map data or TomTom have sold them a pile of crap and are laughing all the way to the bank. I can understand the 3D stuff being a bit rough at first but the basic map data should be solid. Even BMW sat nav is better than this and I always thought that was next to useless but at least they have all the towns in the right place. This mapping app isn't even close to being ready and Apple should be ashamed of themselves for releasing this half cooked crap.
 
bluespark said:
I'm appalled at how bad the new Maps app is, and I'm actually thinking of canceling my iPhone 5 purchase for that reason. The serious errors are inexcusable. But for me, as a resident of NYC, the absence of Subway stops and routes is flat-out insane. It's almost a constant NYC ritual to use Maps to plot out Subway routes and to locate stops near points of interest. It's one of the main things I use a phone for.
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This. The app is now useless to me if I can't map subway routes. I can't even zoom in to my destination and see what trains stop there - it just shows a little train symbol that directs you to the MTA website. Ridiculous for anyone in a big city who doesn't drive.
 
I really like the new maps app and am very glad Apple did away with Google. Seems like most of the issues people have are in big city's like NYC and London, glad I live in Perfectville California and don't have to rely on public transportation. :D

Aren't there 99¢ apps that can find people's train routes for them?

If I depended so much to get around on one app like the old Google maps and knew it was changing I would have been waiting for feedback BEFORE upgrading. ;)
 
still looking forward to my iPhone 5, but this is an embarrassment... And great fodder for comedians. How they thought this was ready for prime time boggles the mind.

I want google maps, chrome, and gmail ... on my *iPhone* and be able to have those apps set as the default programs for those functions.

Since the new iPhone is faster than the desktop computers running Windows at the time Microsoft got in trouble for bundling IE and other junk with Windows, shouldn't the same standards apply to mobile operating systems now??
 
This is really worrisome and makes me dread the switch to my (incoming) new iPhone until Google releases a 3rd party app (assuming they want to and Apple approves it). Like many, the maps app is one of my top-5 most used apps and especially for public transit directions.

I would like to have faith in Apple to improve it but my experience with the permanently broken Music app in iOS5 for iPad (which hopefully they junked or fixed in iOS6) doesn't inspire confidence. Getting lazy/arrogant on stuff like this is a sign of decline.
 
BigJayhawk said:
Seriously?

Google has been doing this for how many years AND YET . . .

Our business has an ACTUAL LOG-IN to keep Google correct -- BUT -- they continuously over the past 5 years randomly move our location, get it mixed up with a competitor IN ANOTHER COUNTY and mix up our addresses, our "pin" locations, our phone numbers, etc. They are literally the NUMBER ONE guest complaint at our Marriott hotel -- and they do not respond to ANY INPUT -- even the actual login that they give us (which is still correct, yet ignored).

THEN -- we are on a U.S. Highway that goes all the way from Maine to Florida -- YET -- for two months the name changed from U.S. Highway 1 to Local Road West in all Google directions??? There is NO "Local Road West" to begin with!

I type in the name of our business or the address to our business and APPLE MAPS has it correct -- and they haven't even been told my me DOZENS OF TIMES (like I have Google) what our address is.

So, again seriously, Google has had 9 years and millions of users to get this right AND HAVE NOT. Apple has had like 9 months in comparison WHILE IN BETA.

Nothing like people being critical just to hear themselves TYPE.
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While I am sorry for your business problems, this is not at all indicative of the Google Maps in general. And, Apple does not actually create map content themselves. So, how exactly do you expect them to fix these issues?
 
patent10021 said:
It's ok guys. I created a new iPhone maps app. It's only beta but it appears to be on par with Apple Maps after only 5 minutes. A few more days and street view should be ok. Give me time please.
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I laughed:p
 
patent10021 said:
It's ok guys. I created a new iPhone maps app. It's only beta but it appears to be on par with Apple Maps after only 5 minutes. A few more days and street view should be ok. Give me time please.

My country
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My jogging course
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Route to above jogging course. Turn by turn is quite handy
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What's the release date?!??!!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!!!!!!!!!
 
jrswizzle said:
Paid Google boatloads of money and in the end had absolutely no control, thus Google could keep the iOS offering less sophisticated than the Android offering
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Sorry, but no. The old Maps app was developed by Apple, not Google. Only the data was licensed from google, and thus was exactly the same as on Android.
 
roland.g said:
First thing I noticed was that while surface streets showed traffic, the interstate didn't reflect any whatsoever. And the number of surface streets with traffic info was ridiculously low. I lamented the transition prior to it happening because of how used to Google Maps we already are. However, the poor implementation takes the change in UI far beyond the initial expected disappointment.

The fact that like a search engine in Safari, Apple hasn't kept Google available for a user selectable choice, or at the least collaborated with Google to have a standalone app like YouTube was available for download at launch, is simply irresponsible.
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Well, poor traffic info is actually one thing that will improve over time. Once millions download iOS6, and once those 2 or 3 million iPhone 5s get shipped, there will be a lot more data to compile and make traffic reports with.
 
second rate and unusable

Really really poor from Apple. they've been blinded by their hatred of Google into putting out something completely substandard.

Now unusable as far as i'm concerned in the UK,If i knew how i'd roll back to iOS5
 
I am sure google will be publishing some statistics that they have major chunk of users using google maps on iOS devices using their browser. And that is true....if i don't have true google maps app then i have to do with the browser version.
I hope new google maps app makes its way to the app store but i am skeptical.

People here are talking about places like UK and Australia but consider situation of someone like me who is in India, i am sure there would be nothing on apple maps for us. While with google, we have maps, traffic and even navigation (major cities only).
 
t47 said:
still looking forward to my iPhone 5, but this is an embarrassment... And great fodder for comedians. How they thought this was ready for prime time boggles the mind.

I want google maps, chrome, and gmail ... on my *iPhone* and be able to have those apps set as the default programs for those functions.

Since the new iPhone is faster than the desktop computers running Windows at the time Microsoft got in trouble for bundling IE and other junk with Windows, shouldn't the same standards apply to mobile operating systems now??
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Wouldn't this be nice... seriously!
 
patent10021 said:
It's ok guys. I created a new iPhone maps app. It's only beta but it appears to be on par with Apple Maps after only 5 minutes. A few more days and street view should be ok. Give me time please.

My country
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My jogging course when I go on vacation.
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Route to above jogging course. Turn by turn is quite handy
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Shut up and take my money!
 
jrswizzle said:
Which is exactly what they were doing. Paid Google boatloads of money and in the end had absolutely no control, thus Google could keep the iOS offering less sophisticated than the Android offering giving Android the advantage (as they should do)
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Ah, you're an insider at Apple or Google and you have seen the contracts and know about the negotiantions between them
 
Maps at present state is completely useless. It is a joke. Bad taste joke.
I wont update to iOS6 until a google maps is available. If it never gets available no more iPhone for me.

Maps is something I highly value. Transit, transportation, routes are the top things I look on a mobile.
 
dashiel said:
The reality is Apple needed to jump off the cliff at some point; they need real people to crowd source the data. It’s going to be unpleasant for a while, but there was never going to be a good time.
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I don't think that's the "reality" at all.

Apple could have released their own Map App as a Beta and asked for customers's help in improving it while keeping the working one around till the license actually expired on that (& making sure Google would have a standalone).

That would have been taking care of the customer first though...and a much nicer reality with Apple stepping off the cliff when they had their Map App actually ready for primetime outside of Cupertino and particularly outside of the USA.

It'll be interesting to see how they step through this mess they've made for themselves though.
 
KdParker said:
Works well for me with iPhone4, but I have heard of some issues with other countries, and the 3d rendering sometimes during the beta testing.
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Question for you. I'm on an iPhone 4 too and have found that although it does the turn by turn, the banners don't change as I'm driving, I have to swipe them with my finger to get them to change from one direction to the other. Have you found the same thing on yours? I'm in Canada so don't know if that makes a difference?
 
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