Samsung is advertising Navigon that comes free with the S3 in Australia, not Google maps.
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Samsung Targets Apple Maps with New Promotional Display in Australia
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Samsung is advertising Navigon that comes free with the S3 in Australia, not Google maps.
I know, it's terrible right. Why would people love Apple products on a site about MAC rumors. It's almost as bad as people who sign up here just to bash people on a forum site about a company's products, who like said company's products. What's next? Chevy Volt worshippers on ChevyVoltforums.com!?! What's this world coming to??
Gotten is only really used in American English - this is in Australia so "should have got a" is perfectly acceptable
Now police in Colac, west of Melbourne, say faults with Google maps are putting people's lives at risk along the Great Ocean Road and in the southern Otways.
Yep the road is there but let's overlook the health risk of using Google maps. I guess the police are just being dramatic
There is a difference between loving and worshipping.
ie. I love my Macbook but I do not worship it's creators.
Yeah, just in the OPPOSITE direction to the one Google Maps is saying to go.
Bottom line, if you're in the bush, and you think your candy ass smartphone is going to be your lifeline, you're an idiot anyway.
That's the thing, I also mock those people. I don't stand in line for Apple products, heck, I absolutely loathe waiting for the Apple store people to finally get around to giving me what I'm there to buy (I don't need 3 hours of explanation, get me X out of the back store so I can get out of there).
Maybe that's why I don't feel Samsung is mocking Apple customers. I'm an Apple customer. Samsung is mocking people who are too into Apple for their own good.
Apart that the Google Maps case is totally different, what has to do with Navigon GPS app?
Business IS Cut-throat
Hate SamSung, but is this any different than when Apple ran an ad with an Intel Processor being carried on the back of a snail? (back 10 year ago or so).
Hate SamSung, but is this any different than when Apple ran an ad with an Intel Processor being carried on the back of a snail? (back 10 year ago or so).
Now police in Colac, west of Melbourne, say faults with Google maps are putting people's lives at risk along the Great Ocean Road and in the southern Otways.
Yep the road is there but let's overlook the health risk of using Google maps. I guess the police are just being dramatic
I have read it and it is clear that you were wrong, it is not a similar problem, guiding to a road not suited for heavyt traffic it is not similar to guiding to an inexistent point.
Where in the news says that it is in the oposite direction? It says that it is not a road suted for heavy traffic.
Samsung is basically calling people who bought an iPhone with iOS6 idiots. Real way to gain support towards your product...
Are they that bad?
I really don't see that Apple's maps are that bad. Sure they are poor in comparison to the standard we have come to expect from Apple, but Maps is a new release, which can only develop faster and to be more capable now in the wild. And Google maps are FAR from perfect, despite having plenty of time to come to standard. One of my biggest gripes is (true when last used) there is no distinction between a publicly accessible service and an administrative office of an organisation.... the amount of times google took me to a private office is no-one's business!
Given the Great Ocean Road debacle, and the fact Apple has *openly admitted* to Maps' short comings, I'd quite like to see an advert from Apple comparing an iPhone with maps running, with a Galaxy with broken glass screen, and maps presumably running (another problem with their Imax device that can't handle being dropped from the slightest height), and the tagline "People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones".
Oh, but wait, Apple has infinitely more class than to do that, something Samsung shall never be able to replicate.
I really don't see that Apple's maps are that bad. Sure they are poor in comparison to the standard we have come to expect from Apple, but Maps is a new release, which can only develop faster and to be more capable now in the wild. And Google maps are FAR from perfect, despite having plenty of time to come to standard. One of my biggest gripes is (true when last used) there is no distinction between a publicly accessible service and an administrative office of an organisation.... the amount of times google took me to a private office is no-one's business!
Given the Great Ocean Road debacle, and the fact Apple has *openly admitted* to Maps' short comings, I'd quite like to see an advert from Apple comparing an iPhone with maps running, with a Galaxy with broken glass screen, and maps presumably running (another problem with their Imax device that can't handle being dropped from the slightest height), and the tagline "People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones".
Oh, but wait, Apple has infinitely more class than to do that, something Samsung shall never be able to replicate.
Umh... no? It's saying to use a Samsung phone instead because it comes with Navigon and avoid getting lost with Apple Maps... I think you get offended too easily.
Apple failed with the "Lemmings" commercial for precisely this reason... Good to see hi-tech Samsung haven't learnt from a quarter of a century old mistake.
Yes, but presumably apple maps doesn't put people on this road as it sends them to safer random location.
Once again, Macrumors repeats the claim that the issue was with Australian Gazetteer information being inaccurate.
This is not the case. I know, I work with the Gazetteer all day, as I work on Australian GIS software for customer mapping.
The Gazetteer is totally correct for its Mildura locations.
The issue is that Apple used the "DI" location (indicating the geographical centre of the Mildura council area) as the location of the city.
They should have instead used the "POPL" location for Mildura itself.
The information is totally correct, Apple just picked up the wrong field. "DI" information is useless if you want to navigate to an urban centre - it should be discarded, as its only use in GIS software is for labelling council areas.
Apple made a mistake, and anyone can go to the Gazetteer website and verify this for themselves. Blaming the issue on "inaccurate information" is nonsense.
The bigger issue is that Apple has made the same mistake for almost every Australian population centre, using the "DI" codes rather than the "POPL" codes. If they don't realise what has happened and fix it, this same issue will continue to exist for most towns and cities in Australia.
This is not the case. I know, I work with the Gazetteer all day, as I work on Australian GIS software for customer mapping.
The Gazetteer is totally correct for its Mildura locations.
The issue is that Apple used the "DI" location (indicating the geographical centre of the Mildura council area) as the location of the city.
They should have instead used the "POPL" location for Mildura itself.
The information is totally correct, Apple just picked up the wrong field. "DI" information is useless if you want to navigate to an urban centre - it should be discarded, as its only use in GIS software is for labelling council areas.
Apple made a mistake, and anyone can go to the Gazetteer website and verify this for themselves. Blaming the issue on "inaccurate information" is nonsense.
The bigger issue is that Apple has made the same mistake for almost every Australian population centre, using the "DI" codes rather than the "POPL" codes. If they don't realise what has happened and fix it, this same issue will continue to exist for most towns and cities in Australia.
Wait, if Apple Maps and Google Maps are ineligible options, then what's next?
Onward to Bingleland and Nokiaville!
Onward to Bingleland and Nokiaville!
I don't think they're targeting iOS6 users.
They're more interested in consumers that can find their stores.
Actually the Samsung commercials are working. I know several iPhone users who not only like the commercials, they are seriously considering switching. It also definitely gains people who are switching from blackberry or don't currently have a smartphone. The funny thing about then lemming commercial is that its essentially what many apple fans( not all) have become.
Not really apples style. Apple has never mentioned a competitor in ads. Even the Mac vs PC ads were Mac vs PC not mac vs Dell.
I think thats a classier move. Samsung is acting like a child.
Imax device? Seriously, you really cannot do better?
All phones can break when being dropped from the slightest height. Well at least in your illogical pointless commercial, the Samsung phone with the broken glass will get you to the right place.