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Wow. Apple Maps is a disaster.
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Lol, yeah alright smartass!
. I had the original galaxy s for two years up until I got the iPhone 5 about a week ago and apple maps has to be the biggest downgrade of an app I've experienced yet. Truly awful.
Lol, yeah alright smartass!
How about the list of alternative map apps right on the main page of the App Store?
No complaints from me - it gives great directions in Sydney. At one point, I looked at the route it was taking and thought "No, that's stupid, I'm not turning there" - the road ended up being a deadend adjacent to a main road.
I love the 3D view also, it gives you such a good idea of what the place looks like. Definitely looking forward to more places having detailed 3D.
I love the 3D view also, it gives you such a good idea of what the place looks like. Definitely looking forward to more places having detailed 3D.
There isn't an alternative app (but you can still go onto Google Maps via Safari. Kind of).
Personally, I'm not totally convinced Apple will allow a full-featured GMaps app, so I'd be prepared to hunker down and put-up with Apple Maps until it's up to standard.
Or you can do what my sister, Dad and several friends and colleages have done, and switch away from iPhone.
Switch away from iPhone because one (ok, major) app is temporarily a piece of ****? Right...
not good
I will say this. apple map was not made for AFRICA in mind at all. i have tried to use it . But shows nothing. well No major landmarks no roads that could be usefull to me or any tourist. I do hope they can make it better or atleast tell us that its not for the whole world . Just THE USA.
I will say this. apple map was not made for AFRICA in mind at all. i have tried to use it . But shows nothing. well No major landmarks no roads that could be usefull to me or any tourist. I do hope they can make it better or atleast tell us that its not for the whole world . Just THE USA.
I'm a fan of MotionX GPS Drive.
It's not free for voice guided turn-by-turn, but it hasn't failed me yet in several places around the country and I've been using it for two years. I had planned to ditch MotionX for Apple Maps before iOS 6 was released, but once I experienced Apple Maps, I went straight back to MotionX. It has a healthy database of POIs with accurate location information (which, sadly, Apple Maps does not.)
The person I replied to said it's totally unusable and was asking for some alternative solutions. Switching to Android is certainly a solution, and one that many people I know have done (not just cos of Maps but various other reasons on top of that). Switching need never be a permanent thing. iOS will always be there to switch back to as and when one feels it's back up to speed.
Just had a pretty bad experience with the Apple Maps GPS yesterday here in central Massachusetts. It literally had the wrong route number on the display, and it was so confusing with which turns to take, I ended up taking the wrong one. Luckily my girlfriend was in the car and knew the way, but pretty terrible.
My letter to Apple Support today
To whom it may concern ...
But it seems likely to me that Apple does not care any more about it's customers and this may well go right away to the trash.
I just read Tim Cook's apology letter about the apps in iOs 6 ... and this is just outrageous.
While he apologizes for the poor maps app (what an euphemism !) he offers no other way forward than "wait and maybe one day in the distant future we'll make it right".
To me that is just like writting "Dear Customer, **** you, you'll get the Apple Maps app whether you like it or not."
I cannot believe that Apple does not even consider giving us back the Google Maps app.
I used to believe that Apple was genuinely trying to make good software but I have just realised that you are actually no different from Microsoft. You're willling to shove crappy software down your customers' throat just because you can and because that allows you to prevent access to other companies' better software and to replace it with your own.
I was considering buying further Apple products, or even buying music from iTune, but I now know that for me it will a Samsung Android phone under the Christmas tree.
A once loyal customer
To whom it may concern ...
But it seems likely to me that Apple does not care any more about it's customers and this may well go right away to the trash.
I just read Tim Cook's apology letter about the apps in iOs 6 ... and this is just outrageous.
While he apologizes for the poor maps app (what an euphemism !) he offers no other way forward than "wait and maybe one day in the distant future we'll make it right".
To me that is just like writting "Dear Customer, **** you, you'll get the Apple Maps app whether you like it or not."
I cannot believe that Apple does not even consider giving us back the Google Maps app.
I used to believe that Apple was genuinely trying to make good software but I have just realised that you are actually no different from Microsoft. You're willling to shove crappy software down your customers' throat just because you can and because that allows you to prevent access to other companies' better software and to replace it with your own.
I was considering buying further Apple products, or even buying music from iTune, but I now know that for me it will a Samsung Android phone under the Christmas tree.
A once loyal customer
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Hmm....doesn't stop me from using Navigon, which is a pretty darn good (and accurate) app.
As for maps proper, Navigation has been pretty rock solid in NY/NYC. Location searches have been pretty spotty but that also has been improving as well with crowd-sourced information.
Overall, the quality of Maps could have been better out of the gate, however YMMV and the product is improving and there's more than just maps to the Apple ecosystem.
Every time I've used it, it's gotten me lost. It's kind of become a joke amongst my friends. I use MotionX most of the time but I thought I'd try apple maps - fail! I'm in the Chicago suburbs. Always takes me to dead end streets!
Bye bye Scott...
So it's the end of the line for Forstall (and on a positive note, that turd Browett) - some of my prayers have been answered... beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
So it's the end of the line for Forstall (and on a positive note, that turd Browett) - some of my prayers have been answered... beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
Yeah, Forstall, the one man responsible for Apple Maps, kicked to the curb. What say you now!!! Is it still awesome???
So, Forstall is leaving because of Maps? I must have missed that in the announcement...
Maps is so bad you think you're living in America rather than in the middle of The Nile.
If it was that bad, he would have been fired outright. He's leaving due to a steady regression in iOS performance...Maps, if it was a deciding factor, was just one of MANY reasons.
More likely, a power play by Ive to have more control now that Steve is gone.
More likely, a power play by Ive to have more control now that Steve is gone.
Yeah sure - he was "retired" without so much as a one word of thanks in the announcement.
...and now removed from the leadership page - that was quick...
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According to the New York Times, he was fired outright. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/...re-and-retail-chiefs-to-depart/?smid=tw-share