I dunno. Have you used the Podcasts App yet?
Yes, I have. Love it.
No offense but you live in Springfield. Any big city relies on mass transit. 8 million people live in New York City ALONE. Taking public transit mapping away from them is a big enough problem in itself, and that's just one city.
It seem to have been a huge deal for many, tho personally living in Sydney I've never used the Transit maps; I only ever used a dedicated Train timetable app, as I rarely take a bus. Its features can't be easily replaced by a Transit feature in Maps. I guess I'm not the norm in this respect, hard to know.
Uhhh I don't know...maybe like giving us the ability to roll back to iOS5 without any issues. That would be a good start.
More useful; being able to reinstall the old Maps alongside the current one in iOS6. Rolling back an OS just for one app is desperate. I'm sufficiently satisfied with Maps to use it as my primary Maps app and use others for supplementing or experimenting with, like Waze. Rolling back the OS is not an option for me even if I did hate the new Maps.
Even if Google decided to release an app today, and Apple decided to approve it, google maps would still not be integrated with the iphone. It's over. No more quality maps or street view with the iphone.
Maybe not Streetview, depending on what Apple decides to do, not a big deal for me as I never used it on my phone; Saying it's over and no more quality maps is alarmist and defeatist. The maps will improve in detail as will the localisation layer and search. Personally living in inner-city Sydney, I'm not having any issues with Maps other than them not being as detailed as Google's was, but then they are the Gold Standard which will take time to match. To do that, they probably need people on the ground like the Google cars to refine maps rather than relying on their map partners to fix them. From what some are saying, the maps for parts of Europe are far worse than America or Australia/NZ due to the varying quality of various map sources they've had to use. Even Google had to stop licensing maps and build their own as they found them too unreliable. Google has been at it for 7 years and have a lot of expertise, while also being able to leverage their Search business, while Apple is new to the game and have a lot to learn.
The new maps, while not as detailed as google's maps, are good for Sydney, tho again I haven't tried searching for anything other than street names. Google is hard to beat on Search. For my usage, the new maps are fine, though I miss the details and refinement in Google's maps. Hopefully these things will come, but it will take time. Apple grossly underestimated the size of the task, and failed to take Localisation searches into proper account. All 3 companies they bought was about building the maps themselves, not the localisation data overlays or search databases. I understand their need to obtain vector maps and turn-by-turn which Google supposedly refused to license them, but surely they must have seen the quality control failures in the Betas; having great maps for Silicon Valley is not enough.
