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So... Are Apple Maps improving yet?
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Dreadful Purple Haze Ruins Photos
take a more critical position where it's warranted, but in this case I
was thinking more in line with after the fact, after they shafted us
with this stupid move, now what? This... after reading
the title of the post, about the time frame until Apple Maps are
accurate and usable.
Personally, besides being the _second_ scratched iPhone 5 I got,
the lack of Google Maps... well those two were enough to frustrate me
to the point of parking it, in favor of returning to my far better, more reliable,
Google Laps equipped iPhone 4S.
At this point, the iPhone 5 is to be avoided, like a bad infection,
from my perspective.
Interestingly enough, that's an opinion that about 40 of my iPhone 5
owning counterparts at work share. There are a few hundred of us
iPhone 5 owners in total, the rest are taking a wait & see stance.
At least that was until yesterday when the sea of complaints rose again.
This time it's the Purple shading that is currently being shown, all over
the web, in side by side comparisons with an excellent picture from the
4S which has no picture ruining Purple Haze.
EDIT: Here's the link, and a user quote, to the purple picture next to the gorgeous well done 4S photo.
"The problem was first noted on the forums of online computer magazine Anandtech, where a thread discussing the issue had more than 180 comments Wednesday.
"Yeah, I have a feeling this is going to be Antennagate all over again," one forum member wrote, referencing antenna problems with the iPhone 4. "I've taken 20,000+ photos on my 4S, never ONCE had this problem."
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/02/tech/mobile/iphone-5-purple-photos/index.html
It's Apple's biggest screw up for 2012.
Your point is certainly valid. It could also be said that I usually
take a more critical position where it's warranted, but in this case I
was thinking more in line with after the fact, after they shafted us
with this stupid move, now what? This... after reading
the title of the post, about the time frame until Apple Maps are
accurate and usable.
Personally, besides being the _second_ scratched iPhone 5 I got,
the lack of Google Maps... well those two were enough to frustrate me
to the point of parking it, in favor of returning to my far better, more reliable,
Google Laps equipped iPhone 4S.
At this point, the iPhone 5 is to be avoided, like a bad infection,
from my perspective.
Interestingly enough, that's an opinion that about 40 of my iPhone 5
owning counterparts at work share. There are a few hundred of us
iPhone 5 owners in total, the rest are taking a wait & see stance.
At least that was until yesterday when the sea of complaints rose again.
This time it's the Purple shading that is currently being shown, all over
the web, in side by side comparisons with an excellent picture from the
4S which has no picture ruining Purple Haze.
EDIT: Here's the link, and a user quote, to the purple picture next to the gorgeous well done 4S photo.
"The problem was first noted on the forums of online computer magazine Anandtech, where a thread discussing the issue had more than 180 comments Wednesday.
"Yeah, I have a feeling this is going to be Antennagate all over again," one forum member wrote, referencing antenna problems with the iPhone 4. "I've taken 20,000+ photos on my 4S, never ONCE had this problem."
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/02/tech/mobile/iphone-5-purple-photos/index.html
It's Apple's biggest screw up for 2012.
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Not everyone lives/travels where you do
It would be a good test for the traffic information if they did.
I have been using since the first Beta, and over the past week there have been many POIs added in the DC area, even building shadows are updated.
Interestingly though, the updated Starbucks app still opens Google Maps (Safari) when locating a store. This is annoying.
Interestingly though, the updated Starbucks app still opens Google Maps (Safari) when locating a store. This is annoying.
Think of it from Starbucks' point of view, they want people to be able to find their stores
Case in point: my local Starbucks is not on the map.
Geez, you can't make this stuff up! People having a purple haze around the sun in their photos and Apple's response is not to have the sun in your photos!
"You're taking pictures wrong!"
"It's normal"
Un-friggin-believable! I guess our own eyes are failing us and the iPhone 4S camera was actually defective. There really is a purple haze around the sun. We're looking at the sun wrong!
I don't know. The first lesson I got when changing from film shooting to digital 10 years ago was avoiding shooting straight to the sun direction because CCD or CMOS can't handle it like film do. My NIKON would get all this green tint, magenta tint all the time if I did that, and that's DSLR. It's kind of funny people think they can shoot at anything. Hey, why does my picture blur? (because the light is low) Hey, why this room is orange? (because it's lit by tungsten lights) Hey, why this magenta tint? So on and so forth.
I agree. When you shoot into direct light, you will get funny glares. These type of glares we don't even notice anymore because we've come to expect them. But when this glare is purple, this automatically noticed and scrutinized. I would expect a glare, but not for it to be purple.
And Apple has to stop telling their end-users that they are doing something wrong. It's not good business and has even become an Internet meme.
Again: "My NIKON would get all this green tint, magenta tint all the time if I did that"
And I read these from other sites that clearly are more mature than MR and it got me quite perplexed with the claims from those who suddenly had problem because his iPhone now doesn't has superior "old Google Map" and people should avoid iPhone at all cost. For me these comments are much more logical:
"the old Maps app was pretty terrible for directions of any sort. I considered it actively dangerous to use while driving alone, since it was so bad. Hence, I always relied on Navigon, and used Maps only when I was trying to get an overview of an area before going there."
"I also have Navigon and a local public transport app installed on my iPhone. I rarely used maps.app before this whole mess. If you depend on mapping, didn't you already fix it? Sure, Navigon is not cheap, but there are others, and if you need it, well, your phone wasn't cheap, either."
"the old Maps app was pretty terrible for directions of any sort. I considered it actively dangerous to use while driving alone, since it was so bad. Hence, I always relied on Navigon, and used Maps only when I was trying to get an overview of an area before going there."
"I also have Navigon and a local public transport app installed on my iPhone. I rarely used maps.app before this whole mess. If you depend on mapping, didn't you already fix it? Sure, Navigon is not cheap, but there are others, and if you need it, well, your phone wasn't cheap, either."
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Reported about ten missing POI, but it feels like I'm getting nowhere. There are so many missing.
Who gives a crap if 3D maps makes the Statue of Liberty look nicer. This is the thing that pisses me off about apple. They're so worried about making things look "pretty" and so are it's users. Fix the basic function of the maps app which is to get you from point A to point B accurately and then polish the turd if you want. To hell with 3D flyover which provides ZERO usefulness. 3D flyover is a concept car, something to show your friends at a party, it's not a core function that's necessary.
Yep, while they're adding pretty 3D images of the statue of liberty, there are thousands of errors that need to be corrected.
Problems I've just reported: -
1. Five incorrectly-labelled petrol stations.
2. At first I thought a taxi rank was incorrectly labelled as a hotel, but it seems that Apple in its' wisdom has decided that the "Taxis" category should have a bed for an icon.
3. The RAF (Royal Air Force) base in my village has been labelled a golf course.
4. At least twenty missing POIs.
5. An incorrectly labelled street.
These are dire.
It's a shame because I absolutely love the phone other than this.
Having read through this thread day by day as it developed, the same two questions keep coming up.
1) What the heck is Apple thinking?
2) It seems people will ignore all this and buy anyway.
It's an amazing testimony to the tolerance and fairly compliant nature of a very large group of Apple customers. Discerning they're not. Apple knows and exploits this, without a second thought.
1) What the heck is Apple thinking?
2) It seems people will ignore all this and buy anyway.
It's an amazing testimony to the tolerance and fairly compliant nature of a very large group of Apple customers. Discerning they're not. Apple knows and exploits this, without a second thought.
Could not have said it better!
Flyover is a gimmick! it's a pretty thing to show at one of Apple's dog & pony shows. And it's a cool 'OOOH AHHH' thing to show someone who wants to look at your phone. But it has ZERO practical value. And it's a clear sign to me that form over substance has infected Apple at its very core.
I do.
There's no harm in improving all areas equally. My hometown gained about another 20 POIs today also.
You must never use satellite view then if you don't think has any practical use. Our world is 3D not 2D.
I do.
There's no harm in improving all areas equally. My hometown gained about another 20 POIs today also.
If you have a severely crippled application you should probably focus on function first don't you think? Focus all resources on that maybe? Spending time on BS is less time spent on fixing what needs fixing. If you have a massive inguinal hernia do you care how the surgeon shaves your balls?
I have a standalone TomTom that I use for navigation, so these barely functional maps aren't really a big problem... it's just that I would like to get rid of my TomTom in my never ending quest for device consolidation
They need to fix the problems that are low hanging fruit - meaning they can easily ID the issue (like the Statue of Liberty or Brooklyn Bridge) and fix it. For all we know for every 100 error correction reports 45 are bogus.
Maps in my area (greater Boston, MA) were good and seem to be a little better now. Looks like they added the commuter rail tracks on the map and maybe a couple POIs. I submitted a few incorrect locations today so let's see how long it takes to fix.
Exactly. People forget how awful the actual app itself was or were the type that never used it to navigate (one of the most useful functions). To be honest, I'm in an area that has rather accurate maps so I've been using Google Local for POI's. It's the same database Google uses so no lost functionality there. Would I have preferred that Apple had waiting till iOS 7 to launch a more POI complete navigation app? Definitely, but at least for the meantime I have a very capable navigator that doesn't function and look like terrible (*cough* Navigon, TomTom, Garmin *cough*).
I'll give Apple one thing, in the same time it took Google 6 months to add a new highly used parkway, Apple did it in, at most, half the time, 3 months (beta period) or, in at least, 1 week (launch to it being added) as it wasn't there when iOS 6 launched and showed up 1 week later. That's definitely welcome. Hopefully they'll be able to fix areas outside the US, with the most screwed up maps, just as quickly.