Get off your high horse and stop acting like a child. If you read, you'll see that it was actually Google that said its better than the Android app.
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Roundup of Features in Google Maps for iOS: Better Design than Android Version, iPad Version Coming
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Get off your high horse and stop acting like a child. If you read, you'll see that it was actually Google that said its better than the Android app.
So what? I don't own stock in Apple so I don't really care. What I do care about, as a customer, is that I get the best tools possible for my own productivity. I don't care if the tools are made by Apple or Google or anyone else.
Or let users change the default.
(Which I think would be a win for Apple overall as it would make their platform better, but I don't think they'd agree with me as there are far too many people at Apple who have clearly bought into MBA led "ecosystem" ******** like they're working at AOL in 1998).
I've been surprised at how many "casual users" noticed the difference.
My wife, whom I never talk tech with, came home one day and brought up all on her own, how upset her fellow teachers were that their iPhone maps were so screwed up.
Another lady friend, who's 55, talked about how she was thinking of moving to Android just to get Google Maps again.
Maps are a big deal up here in the Northeast US, especially transit maps.
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IMO, Apple would have been far better off to have kept Google Maps, but come to a deal where they shared both the data and ad revenue. Win win for both sides.
A simple case of tough luck. Apple made a bad call and are now paying the price. Google's just decided to stick their head in and fix what Apple cant, making a lot of iOS 6 users very happy in the process.
There won't be such great Google Maps app for your iPhone if Apple did not ditch it from the default apps! But Apple calculated it wrong. They didn't predict it would become the company's biggest scandal in these few years.. yes, it's bigger than Antennagate.
What rationale reason would you have for making a conscious decision to stick with Apple's maps?
Unless I'm missing something, there is no way to avoid part of a route or set specific routing options (fastest, fuel efficient, scenic, etc) in either Google or Apple maps. Long story short, that means neither is an enterprise navigation app. Anyone who wants serious navigation needs to buy TomTom or the like.
In other words, this isn't as big a deal as people are making it out to be.
In other words, this isn't as big a deal as people are making it out to be.
Apple not google wrote the previous google maps app. Google wanted apple to put in google branding instead of an unbranded maps app and apple refused. Thats why it didn't work out.
Apple got the biggest bad press of the years - is this what they wanted?
Google wins. The users win.
Google now have a HUGE advantage. If Apple did turn around and say "you know what, we really screwed up here and we want to go back to Google Maps" Google could pretty much demand whatever they like.
It's actually pretty funny how screwed up this whole situation has become, and it boiled down to an arrogant Apple thinking launching their own service would be a walk in the park.
It looks nice and works well on their area? That's why I'll continue to use it at least. I mean, Google doesn't even know what streets have no left turn in my area. Should I just keep using it anyways because the media and elitist forum members say Apple maps is a "disaster"?
I'd tend to believe 95% of people notice that Apple Maps is crap. "It doesn't take a genius" to notice everything is missing on the map!
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Yes you don't have to care with Apple. Because the location doesn't even exist on their maps.
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Come on Apple... Get your act together:
-make a local search (what's on the screen) option
-and more data points
-fix the gestures so it's not always tilting when trying to zoom
-get a street view working
More importantly:
***change the contrast on the secondary roads when you zoom out from the microscopic view that is defaulted when completing a search!!!!!!
(The faint white lines blend into the background...) <- google definitely has this right!!!
I'm on Google till its fixed!!!
Come on Apple... Get your act together:
-make a local search (what's on the screen) option
-and more data points
-fix the gestures so it's not always tilting when trying to zoom
-get a street view working
More importantly:
***change the contrast on the secondary roads when you zoom out from the microscopic view that is defaulted when completing a search!!!!!!
(The faint white lines blend into the background...) <- google definitely has this right!!!
I'm on Google till its fixed!!!
I wonder if apple didnt release their mapping software ,when would have goggle update thier map app for iOS..
You do realise that Google did NOT write the original Maps app for iOS? Apple did.
Aside from not having turn-by-turn here in Thailand, the locator is always off to the left by a little. So on the bus, it shows me travelling on the sidewalk rather than on the left side of the road (here in Thailand we drive on the left).
iOS's tracking is just so much better... but the problem is their markers and icons for points of information.
So I use iOS 6 maps for everything (looks cleaner and nicer) but for public transit directions or an accurate map of places and locations, I use Google Maps.
iOS's tracking is just so much better... but the problem is their markers and icons for points of information.
So I use iOS 6 maps for everything (looks cleaner and nicer) but for public transit directions or an accurate map of places and locations, I use Google Maps.
The same could be said for Apple's UK apology department... What's childish for some is amusing to others... we can't all be the same...
After comparing the two apps this morning, I actually prefer the aesthetics of Apple's maps, especially the transitions when you zoom in. But you can't compare the accuracy and detail of google's maps. It's good to have both, but I hope this just pushes apple to truly work on making their maps a better experience.
Of course it does. That's down to the iOS SDK being over bloated for the 3GS. If I put together a simple app that uses a webkit view, it'll be slower - noticably slower - on the 3GS.
It's an old device.
Not the first time this has happened. Back when iPhoto was SUPPOSED to have facial-recognition -- IT DIDN'T WORK. AT ALL. IT WAS ABSOLUTE CR@P.
NO ONE COMPLAINED THOUGH!!
But in the next version -- BAM. They nailed it, and the facial recognition was just SO good... you wondered what they were doing all along!
I think iOS Maps will do the same. It's cr@p now at locations and points, but in the next version it'll make Google Maps look like unpolished turd.