Five years ago no one had a viable or useful map app in their phones. But now you and everyone else has choices thanks to apple. Do you think we are all making it up?
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Five years ago no one had a viable or useful map app in their phones. But now you and everyone else has choices thanks to apple. Do you think we are all making it up?
The fact that Apple is openly hiring ex-Google Map App employees has got to be the icing on the cake for Google.
Apple are busying SUING all these other companies for supposedly "COPYING" their stuff, yet here they are hiring the other company's employees to help make their cruddy app work like their competitor's does.
LOL
I wish I could downgrade back to 5.1.1 right now. iOS 6 sucks. Period.
Oh, but...but... iOS 6 makes the knobs on the volume control have active lighting... LOLOLOL
WHO THE HELL CARES ABOUT KNOBS?!?!?!?!!?!?
Apple are busying SUING all these other companies for supposedly "COPYING" their stuff, yet here they are hiring the other company's employees to help make their cruddy app work like their competitor's does.
LOL
I wish I could downgrade back to 5.1.1 right now. iOS 6 sucks. Period.
Oh, but...but... iOS 6 makes the knobs on the volume control have active lighting... LOLOLOL
WHO THE HELL CARES ABOUT KNOBS?!?!?!?!!?!?
He might have, I don't see how that is a contradiction is his regard though.
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He's referring to the iPad app Jasmine. A Youtube Client.
Yes, Apple Maps, which is only available on iOS devices, will outrank Google Maps, which are available on every desktop and notebook on the planet, on every Android device, every Symbian device, every RIM device and god knows what else. That sounds a tad too optimistic
By then - it won't matter. When/if Apple maps becomes superior - it won't be a bragging point because there will be several "new" and innovative things that will be promoted/marketed.
The reason Apple has "egg" on their face, so to speak is because Maps is an old tried and true application that people have come to rely on and even though it sometimes gets new info/functionality - it's a core App. Until Apple brought their maps back to pre-2007.
When maps become as good or better than google - it won't be a big deal it will just be "oh good. finally."
Ha, brilliant. For those unfamiliar with the geography of the UK, Wrexham is a town in Wales some 25 miles from Crewe, a town in England.
Because I only use my iPhone for navigating to work every day and the new maps app sucks, I'm going to have to switch to Android. You see, the issue is that I sleep in a new place every night and work in a new place every day, so I can't possibly memorize directions because there's nothing to memorize.
I've heard that in the past people would use a paper map or ask for directions or have a real sense of place that allowed them to navigate, but I just don't believe it.
I've heard that in the past people would use a paper map or ask for directions or have a real sense of place that allowed them to navigate, but I just don't believe it.
Apple really should have kept Google maps until their own version was at least useable. It's my one gripe about the new phone...The maps are utterly useless...Why incorporate a BETA version in IOS6? Would have been better to wait and polish the app first.
In my area of the UK the images are truly appalling, I would have happily waited until they had produced something of good quality...It's not as if they don't have the resources, but building a large image database takes time...Remember all those Google trucks?..
Do we know if this is really an apple issue? Have we heard if Apple cut out google or if google said sorry we are not licensing our maps to you have the contract has expired?
You are using a hyperbole. Thank you for the example.
Most folks in the world did not own a stand alone GPS ten years ago, let lone a map app in any phone. Ten years ago the world was marveling at and dissing the iPod. Today is apple's map app turn.
Should I guess that you dismissed the iPod ten years ago?
Come over to Tokyo and let's talk about this in the cool whisky bar Zoetrope in Shinjuku. Now there aren't street names in Japan, so the quickest way to find it would be to exit out of D5 of Shinjuku station. Walk over to 7丁目. It's just above the back entrance of the 7-11.
All of this info is readily available on the maps in iOS5, so you shouldn't have any problems (if you don't upgrade). None of it's in iOS6.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic. It certainly sounds like it. So that's how I'll be responding.
There are a lot of alternative methods. None of which will/are native to iOS and are called upon by other apps that would maps. IE - siri, etc.
Also - the point is that Apple, with this release has regressed (far back) in their offering. They are offering an inferior alternative to what they already had and people used/expected.
For now - because no one can predict the future - it's a pretty big deal for some and a pretty big fail for some as well.
If you're not affected, that's great. But your use case isn't the same as everyone else's.
^^^ THIS
I am iPhone loyal & I upgraded to iOS6 on day one. I am not crazy about the new Apple maps app, but I fail to see the reason why Google would even bother to try & rush out a standalone app. Let Apple stew in their error for a few months & maybe they convert some 4 & 4S users to go to Android instead of moving to the 5.
I get that there is a market to be had for Google by being on the iOS platform, but I think that Google executives are sitting back & enjoying the bad press that Apple is getting on this. Maybe they will roll something out in a few months, but for now, I would not hold my breath on seeing anything soon.
Because google's revenue stream is advertising and they need eyes on glass and all that user information they capture and sell to advertisers to make their numbers.
The voice of someone who was there at the negotiations I take it?
Hard to say who was doing the screwing. Maybe Apple. Maybe Google. Maybe both."Maps" has issues, for sure. Not sure that pouncing buys google very much except maybe short term. If I were google, I'd get the app onto iOS pronto and start capturing all that valuable user data to give to them what gives me money - i.e. advertisers.
I don't think anyone is saying it is a non-issue. Some of the more level headed are agreeing that there is an issue and that the best choice, for the moment, is to not panic and see if any of the other mapping apps suit their needs. Google Maps never worked for me because I needed turn-by-turn. Didn't have it, won't ever have it very likely. So I went with another solution than the (at the time) default iOS mapping app.
I'm not noticing a lot of laughing people
Yea... But most folks do not really care now and even less in the future. Also, those for whom it maters, they know about alternatives. For example, some folks are claiming to get another phone for two years because you know, the map app is soooo bad. Go figure. To each its own I supposed...
/done
Yeah, like they charge for the following iOS apps :
- Youtube
- Chrome
- Gmail
- Google Apps
- Google Earth
Yeah, definately, 4.99$, the same price they charge for all their other apps.
Don't plan on Google putting out an app anytime soon. This is the perfect time for them to catch people jumping ship. I doubt they have any plans to help Apple better their iOS.
Nobody gives a damn about the past. They only care about the present and the future.
Heck Apple doesn't even give a damn about the past - they won't put Siri on the iPhone 4 or Turn-by-Turn on the iPad 2, even though the hardware is perfectly capable of supporting it.
Stop living in the past and making excuses for Apple's garbage Map App. Apple's philosophy has been to bury the past with every new device they make. You think they dwell on the past? LOL
They downgraded their flagship mobile operating for selfish, business reasons. Heck, I don't even know if it's truly all business either - knowing Steve Jobs' obsession with destroying all competition and running a tight-knit monopoly... He probably put a note in his will for Tim Cook to sever all ties with Google moving forward, even if it meant making an inferior product.
For those who seem to have their world ended because of the new maps app, I give you 200 free Nav apps in the app store.... You're welcome.
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewTop?genreId=6010&id=25220&popId=27
First world problems, right?
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewTop?genreId=6010&id=25220&popId=27
First world problems, right?
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Even though Google owns Android, they don't specifically benefit from that platform. In fact they benefit when people use their services no matter the platform they are on. I don't really see why Google wouldn't want their map app on IOS. The real question is, will Apple let them now that they are set on severing ties.
How many are integrated with phone functionality. How many will Siri rely on when giving their results. How many will be able to set geolocation based appointments/alerts using those maps.
Yes. There are a lot of alternatives. Unfortunately - Apple has dictated that the one that "matters" is the worst of the lot.
Google's product is it's users
Google's product is you, the consumer. They make money selling your data to the advertisers. Their business interest and our is the exact opposite.
That's why I don't trust Google with my data. But than people insist on getting things free gets what they deserved.
Google's product is you, the consumer. They make money selling your data to the advertisers. Their business interest and our is the exact opposite.
That's why I don't trust Google with my data. But than people insist on getting things free gets what they deserved.