This New Yorker is pretty pissed about iOS 6 maps

If you still want Google maps on iOS 6 I strongly suspect you will still be able to get it.

Best would be an actual Google Maps iOS app from the app store.

If not that then the addition of Maps to the current Google app (well assuming they actually improve the app too).





Michael
 
The Google Services app that exists today could easily be updated to have a map link. I suspect that is what you will see from Google going forward.
 
i live in NYC, i drive, i take the trains. rarely use hopstop or google maps routing via the subway. you have to be a retart not to know where the trains go if you live here. and in the worst case there are these simple maps in all the trains
 
frozzbite said:
Beta beta beta

Please guys, stop allowing Apple to hide behind the Beta banner.

Things like streetview and public transport routing are major components which are most likely not going to be added in the final release. I am pretty certain the finished product of Apple's maps will be slick as ever, but it will lack in abilities and functionality.

But you know whats the worst thing? Theres nothing we can do.
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No one truly knows what they are holding out for the GM
 
matttye said:
The alpha stage is the point where features can and are still added. Beta is where the software is feature complete and simply requires testing and improvement.
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Yea cos apple didn't add any new features in the beta for iOS 5, like wifi syncing and OTA updating after beta 1...... Yes it was features announced at WWDC, but they weren't enabled in beta 1......
 
shandyman said:
Yea cos apple didn't add any new features in the beta for iOS 5, like wifi syncing and OTA updating after beta 1...... Yes it was features announced at WWDC, but they weren't enabled in beta 1......
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That's not the same. The code would have been there, just probably not in a working order.

Stick this: /* and this: */ around code that crashes and you can keep the code in the source, but it won't run. If Apple software engineers managed to get those features to crash every time they tried to use them, there would be little sense in letting people beta test those features they quite clearly know are completely broken and get an influx of reports about something they already know about.

Adding something they announced at WWDC is not adding NEW features.
 
matttye said:
The alpha stage is the point where features can and are still added. Beta is where the software is feature complete and simply requires testing and improvement.
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Not necessarily, features have been added to OSX Mountain Lion from the 1st developer preview to the fourth, its possibly that Apple is saving that functionality down the line. Cant the bitching and moaning wait until we get a GM and see what the final product is?
 
hashholly said:
Not necessarily, features have been added to OSX Mountain Lion from the 1st developer preview to the fourth, its possibly that Apple is saving that functionality down the line. Cant the bitching and moaning wait until we get a GM and see what the final product is?
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If Apple adds features to a beta then it's NOT a beta and they're misusing the development cycle.

Beta versions of software represent feature complete versions that may require some tweaking and fixing.
 
matttye said:
Beta versions of software represent feature complete versions that may require some tweaking and fixing.
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And from Apple's perspective it is a beta. The transit apps will be added by third party developers.

I don't think anyone has said that by beta 3 apple will have included transit, I think what has been said is that by the time beta 3 comes out developers will have had enough time to start building transit apps. It's only been seven days.
 
Reddkryten said:
And from Apple's perspective it is a beta. The transit apps will be added by third party developers.

I don't think anyone has said that by beta 3 apple will have included transit, I think what has been said is that by the time beta 3 comes out developers will have had enough time to start building transit apps. It's only been seven days.
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I saw some people respond with moronic retorts like "dude it's a beta" when people complained about missing out on features like street view. That shows a severe lack of understanding of how development cycles work if people think such fundamental features will be added now.

But yes, you are quite right, there's plenty of time for devs to release complimentary apps :)
 
matttye said:
That's not the same. The code would have been there, just probably not in a working order.

Stick this: /* and this: */ around code that crashes and you can keep the code in the source, but it won't run. If Apple software engineers managed to get those features to crash every time they tried to use them, there would be little sense in letting people beta test those features they quite clearly know are completely broken and get an influx of reports about something they already know about.

Adding something they announced at WWDC is not adding NEW features.
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And how is what we are talking about here any different to that? The features we are getting are all there, just not enabled...

And no, I'm not saying street view. That's not happening.

matttye said:
If Apple adds features to a beta then it's NOT a beta and they're misusing the development cycle.

Beta versions of software represent feature complete versions that may require some tweaking and fixing.
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It's apples beta, they can do what they like. You and others here don't get to dictate what they do..... Lol
 
I didn't like Apple Maps at first glance, but I begin to appreciate the clean look more and more. :)
Hopefully public transport will follow soon, as it helped me a lot when visiting LA and SF last summer.
 
shandyman said:
And how is what we are talking about here any different to that? The features we are getting are all there, just not enabled...

And no, I'm not saying street view. That's not happening.
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It's not different. You were talking about ADDING features, not ENABLING them.

shandyman said:
It's apples beta, they can do what they like. You and others here don't get to dictate what they do..... Lol
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If they add features then it's NOT A BETA, but an alpha or a pre-beta. Betas are final, but not necessarily stable, versions of products. They can call it a beta but it's very much not a beta if they're still adding things.

This surely can't be that hard to understand...you're obviously not a software developer.
 
matttye said:
It's not different. You were talking about ADDING features, not ENABLING them.



If they add features then it's NOT A BETA, but an alpha or a pre-beta. Betas are final, but not necessarily stable, versions of products. They can call it a beta but it's very much not a beta if they're still adding things.

This surely can't be that hard to understand...you're obviously not a software developer.
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There is no REAL definition of what's Beta. Differ companies have their own ways of beta versions. By your definition, MS Windows 8 Beta should have been called an Alpha, cause most of Metro was not functional until Release Candidate.
 
If Company X chooses to add features to a release they've dubbed a "beta", will the International Association of Software Release Lifecycle Enforcement penalize them?

Maybe we could come up with some new name for people like Google (see Maps, Gmail), Apple (see Siri, maybe Apple Maps, too early to tell). We could call it a Perpetual Beta! Oh wait, already exists :)
 
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