I should have been more condescending and ended with
'It's a waste of time beating at Apple haters at MacRumors cause they are not going to understand anything anyway!'
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The benefits that you previously gained out of Google maps was a result of all this crowd sourcing. They just didn't build their data base in a day.
Technology cannot be built in a day. It's a result of years of effort especially when it comes to subjects under AI.
One would be dumb to simply not understand that. If you need a tool, buy a new phone. No one is forcing you to use it. You've to pay the cost of time when there's a new technology out there.
Nah, you are the one not getting it, Apple's map app up until this one used Googles data to give us an app that worked seamlessly with contact addresses, powerful search results, walking and public transportation routes, clear satellite imagery, easy to read traffic graphics, lots of points of interest and street view to add to the value of how easy and intuitive the user interface and operating system is on the iPhone. Many millions of people have come to expect and rely upon this level of mapping technology integration from Apple....
Now we no longer have many of those hallmarks, the ones we strongly considered when buying an iPhone or iPad. Instead, we have a new platform that is a significant step backwards in terms of the above. So instead of doing something to bridge the gap as to not screw over those of us who have come to count on the previous Apple Map application as being as innovative and reliable as the products them selves, we are told "Tough, adapt!" By the likes of you.
No, this is not ok...
It is ok if we have to wait an iOS or two until this rivals Maps iOS 5, but it is NOT ok to tell us that we no longer have a choice in as robustly a considered tool.
Tough, adapt is not ok...