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iOS 9's Upcoming Transit Addition to Maps May Be Limited in Scope at Launch

KALLT said:
What do you mean with ‘it integrates’? It’s just the discovery feature of the App Store tied into Maps. Apple will use your location to give you relevant travel apps which you may want to use instead. Google can’t really do that, since it doesn’t control the App Store and also because it provides, in my case pretty accurate, public transport data itself.
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When you search for something in Apple Maps, you can choose to switch to transit directions. Apple Maps then gives you a list of options to choose from. In my case, I have about 3 pure transit apps installed plus Google Maps. The local transit options are far more accurate and up to date than Google Maps.

The nice thing with Apple Maps is that you just click on "Route" for the 3rd party app you want to use and it seamlessly picks up from the location data you already entered in Apple Maps.

Try doing that with Google Maps. You can't. You are forced to use Google's crappy transit solution rather than the more accurate and up to date one made for your particular city. Or you have to just open your transit app directly and then enter the data all over again you already entered in Google Maps.

Apple Maps just provides more options and a more seamless way to get good transit information directly from local providers. Google Maps doesn't provide any choice at all except for their own inferior solution. Transit directions is one of the main reasons I dropped Google Maps.
 
A whole article to state the obvious?

iOS 9's Upcoming Transit Addition to Maps May Be Limited in Scope at Launch
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What isn't limited in scope from Apple these days? Still waiting for iTunes Radio here in Canada, but I'm pretty sure that we won't ever see it. It'll probably be replaced by a fee-based Beats Radio service.

:p
 
JarScott said:
They're the world's most valuable company and largest technology company, sitting on billions in cash and charging an enormous premium for their products. These issues mentioned should not exist. Hire more workers, software engineers, pay the right people to get the right deals in place quickly. There's really not excuse, I don't think. It's getting more and more annoying and making them look worse and worse.
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What unicorn dream are you living in? Being the world's most valuable company only applies to stockholders. That doesn't mean products will be perfect or should be perfect. Remember you're dealing with humans here. Money doesn't stop the issues. Microsoft of all companies knows that to be true.

Issues WILL exist with any company. I certainly hope you don't think that ALL Bentley or Rolls Royce customers drive home their fine piece of kit every time 100% problem free. That's just not realistic.

Apple charges an ENORMOUS premium for their products? Really? Hmmm. Well let's see, most people are able to buy cheap Windows PC's with specs similar or better (on paper) than Apple's computers. That's because those Windows machines are subsidized. Notice how the Surface Pro 3 commands an enormous premium? That's because Microsoft is creating the hardware and the OS, just as Apple does.
 
luckydcxx said:
why is everything Apple does ... "not ready" or "delayed" or "production problems" or "supply constraints"

this is software ... they aren't building a time machine. Hire more software engineers!
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Part of Apple's success is that they can stay nimble "like a startup", but part of Apple's problem is that they have become a ginormous, global-serving company. It's just not possible to do everything properly all of the time. I appreciate the fact that they are careful.
 
They better be quickly integrating other cities without needing to present it in an upcoming keynote.

And they also better be integrating Montreal and the surroundings.
 
luckydcxx said:
why is everything Apple does ... "not ready" or "delayed" or "production problems" or "supply constraints"

this is software ... they aren't building a time machine. Hire more software engineers!
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It doesn't work this way. Do you think if the OS X team would be 30,000 software engineers, they'd beat Windows? On the contrary, they'd never release anything. Sometimes the smallest teams you have, the better it is.

And every company has delayed products, production problems or supply constraints. This has nothing to do with Apple specifically. It's just that you read them.
 
Well, then you have people like me that don't live where a transit system would make any difference. I'm just going to use a car because nothing is close when you live in the sticks.
 
I just hope they don't make a big deal of transit directions at WWDC. Frankly it's embarrassing that it took so long so get it into Maps, especially when basically all other map apps had it for years.
 
More Flyover Cities, Please

Transit info? I'd rather have more cities (and by that, I mean the city where I live) added to the flyover list.
 
What?!?

New York I can understand but not Nanaimo/Lantzville British Columbia? What a horrible oversight. How could they miss Lantzville. I mean their must be dozens of iPhone users in my town, dozens I tell you...


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coolfactor said:
A whole article to state the obvious?

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What isn't limited in scope from Apple these days? Still waiting for iTunes Radio here in Canada, but I'm pretty sure that we won't ever see it. It'll probably be replaced by a fee-based Beats Radio service.

:p
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Who "waits" for iTunes radio?
 
HenryDJP said:
I haven't ran into one software company in the 18 years I've been using computers that do everything properly with little to no issues.
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Have you ever ran in to a software company that pre-installs things & makes a big deal about the functionality of a service that are only good for about 3% of the users?

How about releasing Mapping software with incorrect data? Maps thought where I lived was over 200 miles away when it first launched. It took them nearly a year to correct most UK mapping data!

How about a software company that pushes out an update that kills cellular connectivity and bricks your phone?

What about a tech company that still can't ship products that work flawlessly with wireless hotspots in 2015?

How about a software company that can't ship an e-mail client for a desktop OS that actually works properly?
 
Bigsk8r said:
Totally sick of people from other countries ranting about this when the problem - as often as not - is some licensing issue, a tariff issue, or a local law or regulation within their own country that is the sticking point and not the US company itself.

:rolleyes:
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Yet many other companies, much much much smaller than Apple, have been able to release almost worldwide the same features that Apple just offers in a handful of countries.

Don't put it in the licensing issues, put it in Apple just doesn't mind not offering it in other countries.

Apple has a terrible track of offering software and content outside of the United States. Be it iTunes Radio, Maps, Movies, TV Shows, Books, etc.
 
HarryPot said:
Apple has a terrible track of offering software and content outside of the United States. Be it iTunes Radio, Maps, Movies, TV Shows, Books, etc.
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And the likes of Amazon deliver all that content to the globe in a fraction of the time Apple has taken to roll stuff out. Reason? Amazon invests in their infrastructure and isn't lackadaisical about anything.
 
MacRumors said:
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Apple has been working on adding mass transit routing information to its Maps application for several years, and while the feature appears to be ready to debut as part of iOS 9, it could be limited in scope at launch. The transit service may initially be available only in a small number of cities across the United States, Canada, Europe, and China when iOS 9 is released to the public, according to sources that spoke to 9to5Mac.

San Francisco and New York are said to be two of the locations in the United States where transit directions will be available. Both major cities are known for their public transportation options. In Canada, Toronto will likely gain transit routing options in the Maps app, as will London, Paris, and Berlin in Europe. Cities in China will also be included in the initial launch.

Apple is planning to expand access to transit information to additional cities following the fall launch of iOS 9, and cities that the company is hoping to add support for in the near future include Boston, Massachusetts and Tokyo, Japan, among others. Apple will likely work quickly to expand the feature even further across the rest of 2015 and into 2016.

Mass transit routing options have been missing from Maps since 2012, when Apple's native mapping system first replaced Google Maps in iOS 6. Transit directions were initially expected as part of iOS 8, and hints of transit options were indeed found in iOS 8 documentation, but organizational issues and staff shortages allegedly delayed the feature's release.

Apple's acquired many mapping-related companies since it introduced its Maps app, including transit apps HopStop and Embark, and in recent years, the company has also been expanding its in-house routing team as it furthers its work on the transit feature.

iOS 9, with the new Maps transit feature, is expected to be introduced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8.

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Of course it will be limited. We have a saying that a dog gets used to being strangled. Every European is that dog when it comes to apple and some specific features.

Time to start voting with your wallets.
 
Kinda like Disney only catering to the Floridians and the Southern Californians for their theme parks. Come on Disney, open a Disneyland in Anchorage, Alaska already!
 
JarScott said:
Totally sick of Apple releasing new software features which are only available in the US and/or very select areas. They're a huge international brand, they just shouldn't release these features until they can do a much wider launch. Still no sign of Apple Pay in Europe or anywhere else. Don't get me started on iTunes Radio!
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I think Apple is worried if something goes wrong with new services/features, they're less likely to have issues with the US government than they would with governments in Europe. With Apple Pay, UK/European banks are holding it back. In other words, Americans are beta-testers for new services from Apple.
 
Steve121178 said:
And the likes of Amazon deliver all that content to the globe in a fraction of the time Apple has taken to roll stuff out. Reason? Amazon invests in their infrastructure and isn't lackadaisical about anything.
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Exactly.

If Apple had invested more in Apple Maps, they could have taken a great market share from Google Maps.

The same with Movies and TV Shows, they could easily grab a good market share from Netflix/Amazon/Hulu/etc..

And with music? Damn, they could literally grab the whole market had they released something decent from the beginning worldwide.

And books... oh well, I guess no one reads book anymore...
 
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