Use the google maps website. It has all the features you need, and you can add it to your home screen. That's what it said in the letter. It's that bit you're looking for.
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Tim Cook Publishes Open Letter on Maps for iOS 6
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Use the google maps website. It has all the features you need, and you can add it to your home screen. That's what it said in the letter. It's that bit you're looking for.
Why would I use a crappy web app ?
I've PAID for products claiming to provide a real decent and working Map App: I have paid for them, I own them
Apple claims to provide this App in their ads and website etc., they just have to, especially given the fact that they used to and that they can: it was there only 2 weeks ago.
Give us Google Maps back. NOW.
Way too soft to lead men like Scott, Phil and Jonathan. With world's most
valuable company and 100 billion cash, Apple's biggest threat is disruption
from within. Cook's softness will make employees miss Jobs's tough,
physical presence. Compare his response to Phil's on aluminum, it is clear
they have completely different styles and a battle between Tim and Phil will
cause massive damage to Apple.
Steve was a tyrant and was the only one who could have kept the fabulous
four together in unity. Cook suggesting competitor product is a very bad
decision, Toyota CEO was in tears when he stood up to the podium, but even
he did not recommend his customers to buy Honda cars!
valuable company and 100 billion cash, Apple's biggest threat is disruption
from within. Cook's softness will make employees miss Jobs's tough,
physical presence. Compare his response to Phil's on aluminum, it is clear
they have completely different styles and a battle between Tim and Phil will
cause massive damage to Apple.
Steve was a tyrant and was the only one who could have kept the fabulous
four together in unity. Cook suggesting competitor product is a very bad
decision, Toyota CEO was in tears when he stood up to the podium, but even
he did not recommend his customers to buy Honda cars!
Why would I use a crappy web app ?
I've PAID for products claiming to provide a real decent and working Map App: I have paid for them, I own them
Apple claims to provide this App in their ads and website etc., they just have to, especially given the fact that they used to and that they can: it was there only 2 weeks ago.
Give us Google Maps back. NOW.
They were under negotiations. Google refused to improve their iPhone version of Maps because they wanted google branding advertisement and user data collection concessions that Apple didn't agree with. Obviously the recent disputes between the two companies didn't offer a good environment for negotiations and things fell apart. Apple saw this as time to move on. I agree with them.
For me, it's probably becuase I've been longing for an update to Google Maps for years now. I'm so tired of it that I'm willing to take an inferior version of Apple maps for a short time until they can bring it up to speed. Unfortunately it's missing some key features that will make me rely on some 3rd party apps a little more, but I was already doing that with Google Maps (local transit apps when I travel).
And I'm also a daily user of Waze so again...no big loss for me.
So does Tim Cook with his letter... or wait... maybe is he admitting we have a real issue here?...
Heh. That's close to the truth. It's worse in Brooklyn (home of fuhgeddaboudit), which is odd since its the most populous of the 5 boroughs, and the second most populous place in the country (after LA). And don't get me started about Brooklyn not having flyover but the entirety of Chicago does (outlying neighborhoods included).
Incorrect way to collect data
So, what you are saying is:
Apple released MAPS to collect 1 Year worth of data from their users before Google puts out a new Maps application.
In order to collect this data, apple suggests people use competitors product?
Explain...
So, what you are saying is:
Apple released MAPS to collect 1 Year worth of data from their users before Google puts out a new Maps application.
In order to collect this data, apple suggests people use competitors product?
Explain...
I have to say...
So reading all the news about the new iPhone 5 and the issues/problems and thinking that is is being blown out of all porportion, until!!!
Just watched my colleague unbox his brand new Black 32GB iPhone 5 only to 2 chips (substantial) on the side band.
HOW DOES THIS GET PAST QA!?!? Unacceptable for a premium product, even if they are producing millions.
How do you fan boys continue to justify that???
I love apple too, but... WTF!?
So reading all the news about the new iPhone 5 and the issues/problems and thinking that is is being blown out of all porportion, until!!!
Just watched my colleague unbox his brand new Black 32GB iPhone 5 only to 2 chips (substantial) on the side band.
HOW DOES THIS GET PAST QA!?!? Unacceptable for a premium product, even if they are producing millions.
How do you fan boys continue to justify that???
I love apple too, but... WTF!?
4 Years probably spent doing the heavy lifting.
6 months sounds a little ambitious but with over 100 million users (and counting) ... I suspect crowd-sourced data will come in thick and fast ... it WILL get better
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I find it quite unbelievable how many people are denying the problems that Apple maps have. Maybe they're fine in the US but in Europe the maps are only usable in big cities, some towns have names from 25 years ago, some even before the WWII, streets are just missing, satellite images are very old and very low resolution.
I'm an Apple fan but Apple has nothing to offer in the maps department now.
I'm an Apple fan but Apple has nothing to offer in the maps department now.
Maybe it's because my hometown hasn't been wiped off the map, but it seems like this whole thing is overblown. It's a whole new product, with some flaws as well as some awesome features.
Let's not forget: Google Maps for iOS 5 didn't even have turn-by-turn! The new one does, and that's huge for me personally. You couldn't ask Siri for things along the route, you couldn't rotate the view with a multitouch gesture, you couldn't view it in landscape mode, it was bitmapped, and the only business information it displayed was a phone number and webpage.
The new Maps improves all of these features, while needing improvements in accuracy (a crucial aspect, admittedly). I think this is a case of Apple living and dying by the intense public scrutiny. Their products get enormous hype and anticipation, but when something is flawed, it gets magnified 10x.
Can you imagine headlines over scuffed Nokias?
Let's not forget: Google Maps for iOS 5 didn't even have turn-by-turn! The new one does, and that's huge for me personally. You couldn't ask Siri for things along the route, you couldn't rotate the view with a multitouch gesture, you couldn't view it in landscape mode, it was bitmapped, and the only business information it displayed was a phone number and webpage.
The new Maps improves all of these features, while needing improvements in accuracy (a crucial aspect, admittedly). I think this is a case of Apple living and dying by the intense public scrutiny. Their products get enormous hype and anticipation, but when something is flawed, it gets magnified 10x.
Can you imagine headlines over scuffed Nokias?
And this is why I like Tim Cook: he has the guts to admit Apple was wrong.
Not the "you're holding it wrong" as Mr Jobs has said.
Not the "you're holding it wrong" as Mr Jobs has said.
You don't know if the Apple maps knows there's a concrete barrier or if it's just it's algorithm's different. You'd need another test to figure that out.
Now, I find it interesting that there are so many comments about wiling to wait for the maps to get better. Because:
1) RIM users used to say that a lot about RIM phones, some still do
2) People often brings up negatives about other mobile devices on this forum. Android "smoothness" often gets the most comments on. It has improved and will continue to but no one here seems willing to cut any slack that way.
3) Apple has screwed up many times on first launch. People have given them lots of slack before. Why it is this time people seems to have to make a point of telling everyone?
Did everybody read the article in the NY Times where David Pogue says:
"In short, Maps is an appalling first release. It may be the most embarrassing, least usable piece of software Apple has ever unleashed."
The criticism of Apple's Maps has become so deafening that Tim Cook had to issue an apology!
Maps is a disaster for Apple.
If Maps belonged to anybody else, it would've been kicked out of the App Store by now.
"In short, Maps is an appalling first release. It may be the most embarrassing, least usable piece of software Apple has ever unleashed."
The criticism of Apple's Maps has become so deafening that Tim Cook had to issue an apology!
Maps is a disaster for Apple.
If Maps belonged to anybody else, it would've been kicked out of the App Store by now.
I'd say "a first disappointment" for (at least) 5 to 8M "applers" so far... Not bad!
