Not at all. Then nobody would use Apple maps. Besides, how many companies do you know that default to a competitor's product ? It isn't done.
We get a choice like web browsers ! Hah
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Lack of Maps Updates in iOS 8 Said to Be Caused by 'Internal Politics', Developers Leaving
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We get a choice like web browsers ! Hah
That sounds weird to me. Click the (i)-icon in Maps App and take a look at the bottom. TomTom's the map provider just as Google used to be the map provider?
That doesn't make any sense. Why would Apple wait around for a magic number before doing anything? If fixes and bugs aren't being taken care of until some "magic number" is met; isn't that screwing over the people who already have Apple maps??
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Best use in cities
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Maybe those apple maps fans never leave the suburbs ?!
This.
A few people have "moved" from Google to DuckDuckGo. But I keep going back to Google search. It just seems to understand what I'm looking for better.
Google are really smart in the search space. I run the enterprise search system for my employer's huge intranet. It's a very hard thing to get search working as nicely as Google's.
...but it was definitely the off putting thing (others might say "creepy"), like so much of what Google does.
IMO, productivity also goes down with the number of people. 5,000 A-Team player could get a lot accomplished than 50,000 gaggle of A, B and C type people building silos, bureaucracies, committees, approval forums and turf battles.
The issue was with how Ive and Forstall could not work together. Jobs could control them but after his death, Cook was forced to choose between them. I think he made the right choice in choosing Ive at the end of the day, but indeed, Forstall's work on OSX 10.5 and 10.6 as well as iOS 1-6 was legendary. Ive however is responsible for the look of every apple product from 1998 to present. That is a greater feat when you weigh the two together.
Also, I think Craig Federighi did a brilliant job with OSX 10.9, all proper performance tweaks and few gimmicks. Best since OSX 10.6. Furthermore, OSX 10.10 looks like a well thought out overhaul to the desktop OS. He's also Apple's best showman right now.
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Like the Apple USB mouse in 1998? The Newton? The Apple PowerCD? The Macintosh Protable? The iPod HiFi?
Yeah, their hardware track record isn't exactly "flawless" despite their famous successes...
I don't understand a lot of the conversation here or really how maps works but it seems to me that most everyone agrees that the issue with maps lies in the location data (or lack thereof).
That being said, in the years that I've been using Apple maps I have sent in two corrections and neither of them have been fixed. What I'm saying is that they have tons of people all over the world sending them updates and fixing the issue for them, they just need people on their end to actually take the information we are giving them and implement it. And while I'm not sure, this seems like it should be a relatively simple job that doesn't require massive programming knowledge or anything (?).
Does my thought process make sense or is the problem much larger than this?
Also it's kind of insulting to me that they wasted my time. Like why put the button for me to report a problem if there isn't a team fixing the issues I send in?
That being said, in the years that I've been using Apple maps I have sent in two corrections and neither of them have been fixed. What I'm saying is that they have tons of people all over the world sending them updates and fixing the issue for them, they just need people on their end to actually take the information we are giving them and implement it. And while I'm not sure, this seems like it should be a relatively simple job that doesn't require massive programming knowledge or anything (?).
Does my thought process make sense or is the problem much larger than this?
Also it's kind of insulting to me that they wasted my time. Like why put the button for me to report a problem if there isn't a team fixing the issues I send in?
The key thing about maps is the data, not fancy functions like, find my local coffee shop. Apple love to do fancy things but ultimately the data has to be 100% accurate or people will not use. Google data is so accurate that it has become the default that people trust and use, just like their search.
If you can't trust Apple maps then it is dead in the water. Unless Apple are going to put in at least the same money, commitment and effort as Google then it is just not worth bothering with.
If you can't trust Apple maps then it is dead in the water. Unless Apple are going to put in at least the same money, commitment and effort as Google then it is just not worth bothering with.
Google Maps has used vectors on Android since 2010 but Apple refused to use them in (Google) Maps on iOS (according to the article you linked to). That way they could use it as a launch feature to differentiate.
Even the documentation on MapKit for Swift is kind of tricky, I've being dealing all weekend to translate a simple project for localization from Objective-C to Swift and I can make it work as expected, I't seems like there are some missing parts even that is a beta version of the SKD.
"They are having a hard time finding the right direction"
I thought it was because they were using the app to navigate to work.
Because I LOVE Apple. I want them to do well and I know they can do better.
And sorry, but you are in the minority. They screwed up, and little has changed since Tim Cook's own admission on this.
No, firing forstall relieved tension, it used to be worse than this now they just need to get their **** together.
Nokia Maps is not I owned by MS. THIS would have been an intelligent acquisition or partnership. I guess they're not hiphoppy enough in Northern Europe.
The choice to move to its own maps is a better choice for its customers. Google was holding off on features for its own Android platform. Now Apples customers have vector maps with turn by turn direction. Not something they would get if they made Google the default maps on iOS.
