Hmm, I haven't really noticed any bugs with using Maps so far in my area. It's certainly not perfect overall by any means, but it's also not nearly as bad as the media is portraying it to be. In time Apple will get Maps polished up, so I'm not at all concerned about it.
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Apple's New iOS 6 Maps App Drawing Significant Criticism
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If you're getting paid for it then it better be perfect. Or else you should be fired.
Well, it'll make a difference to sales to ME! I was all set to upgrade from the 4, now, not so much. Hoping for a Google Map stand-alone app, but if one doesn't show up (or these problems being reported don't get fixed), I may (gulp) go Android...
Steve must be rolling over. Siri still blows and this is just horrendous.
Maps probably one of the most used apps and Apple basically just took it away. But they still want you to pay $750 for a phone.
Maps probably one of the most used apps and Apple basically just took it away. But they still want you to pay $750 for a phone.
LOL, I agree with you 100%. It's actually disturbing. As if the world is slowly melting away, or something. Maybe it's a tribute to Steve's LSD days, who knows.
No transit information - as a New Yorker this is HUGE! I did not realize this feature was missing from maps until I read this post. I just tried to get subway directions and I was re-routed to a list of NYC transit apps. I used to use google maps all the time to find subway directions, and they were significantly better than every app I've tried. Hopefully google will release an iOS version of maps soon!
OK I can honestly say Steve Jobs wouldn't have allowed this app to be launched. Similar to how they killed air print and pushed back push notifications I think in its currant state this should have been pulled at the last minute and delayed till 6.1 the only problem is this was to be its biggest software feature and instead its the biggest fail
Ugh. How did Apple think this would be acceptable? And they had the nerve to showcase their solution as a selling point during the Keynote....... This is an app that many, including myself, use often and rely on. I feel like a key feature of the phone I pre-ordered is basically useless......
In the Uk at least local search is a complete joke - it can't find the most obvious places unless, by coincidence, the words you search for are in the title.
I mean, it just doesn't find anything. Famous music venue? Nope. Major sporting venue. Nope. Only a small smattering of the food outlets Google would find.
Any I don't really even know what Yelp is. It looks like one of those crap Yellow Pages clones that no one really uses anymore.
Nokia Maps isn't as good as Google in terms of information richness but it much better than Apple's Maps - so Apple will first have to better much weaker offerings before they can draw level with Google.
I mean, it just doesn't find anything. Famous music venue? Nope. Major sporting venue. Nope. Only a small smattering of the food outlets Google would find.
Any I don't really even know what Yelp is. It looks like one of those crap Yellow Pages clones that no one really uses anymore.
Nokia Maps isn't as good as Google in terms of information richness but it much better than Apple's Maps - so Apple will first have to better much weaker offerings before they can draw level with Google.
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Must be lucky...
I must be lucky, or in a good area or something. So far the Apple maps app is better in every conceivable way for my uses. The satellite images are better, the cartography is better, everything loads faster, everything scrolls smoother. I'm even on the 4 so i don't get to experience turn-by-turn navigation or voice..and its still better.
Not that i'm saying there are not problems for other people (for instance I don't use public transit as i'm not in an urban center), but I think everybody needs to take a step back.
I must be lucky, or in a good area or something. So far the Apple maps app is better in every conceivable way for my uses. The satellite images are better, the cartography is better, everything loads faster, everything scrolls smoother. I'm even on the 4 so i don't get to experience turn-by-turn navigation or voice..and its still better.
Not that i'm saying there are not problems for other people (for instance I don't use public transit as i'm not in an urban center), but I think everybody needs to take a step back.
Definitely disappointed in the current dataset.
However, still pretty pleased that Google isn't getting my location information any more.
As long as there's reasonable improvement fairly quickly, still a tradeoff I'm happy to make.
If there are no improvements then, well.... that's a different story.
However, still pretty pleased that Google isn't getting my location information any more.
As long as there's reasonable improvement fairly quickly, still a tradeoff I'm happy to make.
If there are no improvements then, well.... that's a different story.
And for you fellow NYC'ers, now I am forced to buy a $4 app from iTrans thank to Apple taking away a critical feature from the largest metro area in the US.
This is an epic fail by Apple.
This is an epic fail by Apple.
It's fine that Google will probably have a maps app soon, but it's not that good for apps that use this API for their own map needs. I'm sure it's probably 99% fine, but it's still a bit untrustworthy.
This post compares results from Apple Maps and the TomTom app.
It seems to be Apple's implementation of the data which is causing the errors.
But Apple didn’t remove Google from its devices. Google has more apps than ever on iOS. YouTube is on iOS, exactly the way Google wants it (with Google, not Apple, in control). iOS 6 still has integrated Google search, still by default, and still has integrated video sharing to YouTube. Maps will arrive if and when Google wishes (and they’ve had plenty of warning). Apple wants to remove dependence on Google, and in fact they simply must. But Apple has no illusions of making people abandon the things that Google does better than anyone. That might include search (I’m no longer sure... their results have sunk to Bing levels) but it definitely includes maps and transit (and street view is truly useful sometimes). Apple wants their maps to be better than Google, but they know very well that’s not true yet (except in limited ways). And when Apple’s maps are consistently great (12 months? 24?) will Apple kick Google Maps off of the App Store? Surely not. They allow iTunes and iBooks competitors, and they’ll allow Maps competitors too.
you don't know which train to take by now? only time i look at the subway map is if i'm going somewhere i haven't been to before. mostly on some weekends. and then only in manhattan. and even then i only need a quick look at the station because anyone can figure out walking directions from the station
You know, people always joke that "Steve would have never allowed it" but in this case it happens to be true I'll be using maps.google.com as a web app on my phone for some time to come.
I'll be using maps.google.com as a web app on my phone for some time to come.