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Apple's New iOS 6 Maps App Drawing Significant Criticism

Fictional Apple Memo:

All employees with network access

Please spend an hour a day learning the Maps app database update process and practicing with customer feedback pings.

Fictional Apple Memo week 3:

All employees with network access

Please spend three hours a day updating the Maps app database using the update process with customer feedback pings.

Fictional Apple Memo week 14:

All employees with network access

Please spend three hours a day identifying simple Maps app updates en masse for updating by our team in India. The ping error app has been updated to make this process simpler.

Fictional Apple Memo week 28:

Public and developers

Due to internal development efforts and bug fixes, OSX and iOS will be delayed 2 months.

End fiction?

Where's that darn spaceship when you need it?
 
macMD said:
I find it disappointing to say the least. Will it get better, yes it will. My concern is Apple rushed this out the door before it was ready and removed what was clearly a working App just because of their disdain for Google. Its about business and your customers satisfaction. Customers who are having issues are not satisfied (those who are not having issues are).

Perhaps Google will actually release a maps app . . . or not.
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My prediction is that people who live in suburban areas and drive everywhere will be the least phased by this. People who live in urban areas like New York City, Boston, Toronto, London, Paris, etc. will be driven absolutely insane by this new crappy Apple Maps -- and if it doesn't get better real fast, Apple is going to lose their urban hipster fan base real quick.

I've never contemplated buying an Android phone until now. But then I realized, as an urbanite, how much I've come to rely on my mobile maps every day. I use it to know when I should be at the streetcar stop, or when the next bus will be coming. Google has real-time GPS-fed data from the TTC here in Toronto, and it was very accurate.

Apple Maps takes all of this away. It's horrible.
 
rdstoll said:
Each successive version of iPhone falls further behind the top Android devices. (didn't even catch up to Galaxy S3 this time 'round).

Each successive version of iOS takes away perfectly working apps in favor of Apple ones that are inferior in a lame effort to force Apple minions into their ecosystem.


And yet, the Apple fan-dom lines up and plunks down a couple hundred bucks for whatever the overlords from Cupertino says is good for them.

"And you people, don't you have jobs to go to? Get out of here, go commute! You oughta be ashamed of yourselves. Bunch of easily-led automatons. Try thinking for yourselves..." Classic quote from Clerks
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You have no business posting on MR, go to an android forum. People here are discussing what they don't like in the new version of the maps app, not how android is superior.
 
Maps - very poor, Apple. Must try (much) harder.

On the whole iOS 6 looks ok, and will be useful, even with my iPhone 4.

Unfortunately I came to rely on Google Maps and feel that Apples effort is a poor, third rate, attempt. If Apple Maps wasn't ready (and it patently wasn't) they should have bitten their lip and stuck with Google for another few months, and be sure that Maps is worthy of being an Apple product. As it stands, here in the UK, it isn't. Embarrassing.

I hope that Apple through some serious wedge at Maps.

"Steve wouldn't have etc etc"

I wish I hadn't upgraded from iOS 5 so quickly.
 
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Ok all English speaking people, come and have a look at this, do you know what is "Hing Bin Tit Lou"?? I am a Chinese speaking person, I know that is Cantonese of Light Rail, how could Apple not even translate that into correct English before releasing a map like this??:confused::mad:
 

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euphlyusUNO said:
You have no business posting on MR, go to an android forum. People here are discussing what they don't like in the new version of the maps app, not how android is superior.
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I have already asked for this: EVERY single Android user on this Apple forum should step forward and LEAVE - I am tired of these trolls infesting MacRumors.

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xAnthony said:
Posts like yours make me shake my head... Anything is for sale when you have the money that Apple does. You simply make an offer a company cannot refuse.
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Better yet: They should just buy Google and shut Android down for good. ;)
 
It looks like the new maps run over non-http ports, which makes them useless on 3G on some carriers. Example, 7-11 Speakout Wireless in Canada and couple others, like PetroCanada, that run over Rogers network and go through a proxied APN for unlimited browsing that filters all non-http ports. The iOS 6 maps do not work on Speakout 3G, while Google Maps worked great. Already downgraded to iOS 5.1.1. Here is a guide that worked for me:
http://techglobex.blogspot.ca/2012/06/downgrade-from-ios-6-beta-firmware-to.html
 
ugh so annoying. NO transit sucks!:mad:

Also the lack of street view is another minus.


clearly they are not ready.

Has google said anything about releasing Google Maps as a stand alone app?

PLEASE GOOGLE!
 
BRLawyer said:
Exactly my point. People ignore that Apple has taken a courageous and strategic stance to eliminate built-in reliance on Google's products, which of course causes some pain for human beings naturally averse to change.

AGAIN: in just a few minutes of testing, I have found Apple Maps to be highly accurate and responsive. Nevertheless, to expect it to be at the same level as a seven-year old crowd-sourced Maps app by Google is absolutely IDIOTIC...give it a few days and things will surely be EVEN better.

And what the hell is this reaction of NOT buying a phone just because of a new Maps app? Is that the only thing you do on an iPhone? Incredible.:rolleyes:
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Bogus on anyone that say's "I'm not buying the i5 because of a frickin' maps app, ya sure."

Um, my car has navigation along with a quadrillion other apps for god sake, get real, stop whining.

I've had the developer version of the new Maps app for months - works perfect for me in Los Angeles. Especially like the fact that SIRI speaks the directions thru YOUR bluetooth in your car, nicely....in fact.

A feature like Passbook will be way for valuable for my world than a maps app -- get over it.

Oh and on a side note, my FORD navi system wants $200 to "send" me a updated "MAP" DVD for my car, and you guys are bitching like whining B*****s". Grow up. Perspective here.

OLT - Nobody mentions SIRI and maps added to the iPad -- works great for me and my family.. Better on iPad frankly.
 
mapfail

Apple should just stick their core competency and leave the maps to Google. And put their ego aside for the sake of the customer. These maps are an epic fail. While they can only get better, I'm Google is hard at work making theirs even better as well.

While Flyby can only be considered a nice novelty. It does me no good when I'm driving or walking at street level. StreetView is infinitely more useful.
 
gijoeinla said:
Bogus on anyone that say's "I'm not buying the i5 because of a frickin' maps app, ya sure."

Um, my car has navigation along with a quadrillion other apps for god sake, get real, stop whining.

I've had the developer version of the new Maps app for months - works perfect for me in Los Angeles. Especially like the fact that SIRI speaks the directions thru YOUR bluetooth in your car, nicely....in fact.

A feature like Passbook will be way for valuable for my world than a maps app -- get over it.
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Not everyone has the same usage needs as you. Some people don't have cars and need transit directions. Some people use their phones as their primary navigation device.
 
This marks the second release of a major IOS upgrade where the main feature is BETA software..... as far as I know SIRI is still in BETA.


Kavok said:
My guess is they did not renew their license with Google to have the maps just like they did with the YouTube app.

It will take some time for Apple to get their map data going. I think this is another case of using people as beta-testers to find all the issues since their employees can only do so much.
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BRLawyer said:
Better yet: They should just buy Google and shut Android down for good. ;)
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That would be funny, but that would never happen. Considering Google makes more money from iOS users than it does from Android users. It would be a lost investment... But I'm sure that idea was kicked around at drunk golfing meetings. :p I'm sure they got a good chuckle out of it also.


Oletros said:
Yap, because Google would sell one of their biggest assets to Apple
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Once you live in the business world for a few years, you'll understand things like this happen on a DAILY basis. Maybe not to the extreme's that we're talking... But you'd be surprised.
 
BRLawyer said:
I have already asked for this: EVERY single Android user on this Apple forum should step forward and LEAVE - I am tired of these trolls infesting MacRumors.
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Android users (and those with other phones) are more than welcome to use the MacRumors forums as long as they abide by the rules.
 
BRLawyer said:
Well, you do have a point - Apple could have easily renewed its contract with Google and kept Google Maps for a few more months at least, while launching its own effort in parallel for people to get acquainted with.
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Trouble is, we don't know exactly which party ended the continued inclusion of Google Maps, do we? It could have been one-sided the other way, or mutually agreed upon. We don't know.

:)
 
matttye said:
Yeah take away the major competitor and make it even easier for Apple to pull **** like this.
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Maps sucked when it was google and it (subjectively) continues to suck now. It knew where I lived and it has brought up all the searches I have requested. I'm not sure what else I need it to do. However, since I'm on Iphone 4, I always use mapquest for turn by turn. That may change once my 5 gets here tomorrow.
 
So, will Mapgate be iPhone 5's overblown "problem" like Antennagate for the 4 and Heatgate for the New iPad?
 
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