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Wow. Apple Maps is a disaster.

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This was a company run by a CEO who had sleepless nights over the fact that the yellow in the original Google icon was the incorrect shade.... what has happened to their attention to detail?
 
iOS Jailbreak!

I hope Jailbreak comes out fast so that someone can port iOS 5 Google maps to iOS 6.

Not sure how long it is going to take iP5 JB though.

Good job apple. This is how giants fall!!! I am big fan but this attitude sucks!

Again, I am probably overstating (giant fall etc) but who know these small things will lead to disaster in next few years.

Fans will be upset and look for new things. I know no one has put a gun on head here but fans are loyal to iPhone because they like what they get but these kind of cheap tricks will hurt the company in long run. I mean, apple has so much money, they should focus on what is best for the loyal customers not on some cold war with Google etc.

Anyway, time will tell....
 
As a web/graphic designer and someone who has a meticulous attention to detail with the stuff I work on. I am just appalled that a company as big as Apple let maps go live in the condition state it is in now.

The whole thing really irked me when the icon was released and it showed the turn off the left turn that would have you fall down onto the highway below.

This is absurd, and something that Steve would have never allowed to happen. If I worked at Apple, I would have gone nuts over something like that.

A sad day for sure. Tim, Phil, Scott should all be extremely ashamed.
 
andymac2210 said:
Why do the apologists keep saying 'give apple time to fix this, in a few weeks or months it'll be much better'?

REALLY, SIR OR MADDAM?

If they release this crapfest after 3 years of work, it's going to take another 2-3 years MINIMUM before it's even close to google maps.
Their keynote now, is just so much more disingenuous, "we think it's really great", they said. :rolleyes:


Literally everything that could be wrong with it, is wrong with it.

Wrong information on locations.
Very little information.
Very few points of interest.
TERRIBLE satellite photography, did they take the pictures with an iPhone 3G from space?
No street view.
ZERO transport information, NONE. W.T.F?


Probably the worst thing they've ever done to the iPhone, maps are an ABSOLUTE core functionality of a smartphone and this is piss poor.

I'd expect better from a startup that had a few million in seed funding, seriously.
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I think the point is the hard work, IE, building a platform is done. The new app and the system behind it works wonderfully, the data is the problem. And like with Google, the best option for that is Crowd Sourcing it. Before the days of Google, GPS devices used similar sources Apple is getting their data from, it was old and outdated. Heck who remembers Mapquest? Google started the same way. I am not trying to make any excuses for Apple, I feel they could have done a little better job with launch data, but if they can find an easy way for the public to start making corrections (IE Google Map Maker) then things should get better quickly.
 
I updated my iPad to iOS6 and was extreemly dissapointed in the apple maps. Just seemed to still be in beta from and not nearly complete enough to be in a new phone release. Glad I didnt mess with my 4s yet because I use google maps all the time. seems to be a pattern developing with apple where they release incomplete software. First siri now maps.

I did order a iphone 5 a couple days ago from the ATT store. Not sure if I want to just hold off until this is sorted or google releases an app.
 
Locodice said:
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This was a company run by a CEO who had sleepless nights over the fact that the yellow in the original Google icon was the incorrect shade.... what has happened to their attention to detail?
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It turns out that one man does make a difference.
 
Squid7085 said:
I am not trying to make any excuses for Apple, I feel they could have done a little better job with launch data
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A little better job? come on, be honest. The map app is half of what it replaced. The keynote they gave made me think it was very close to being a finished product or done. It is far from complete and still in early beta like siri was. They should have at least extended a license with google for a little while and still released their app as a download.

It's like they took my freshly caught red fish from the grill and replaced it with a fish sandwich from McDonalds and told me it was great.
 
This is all very disappointing... I use maps A LOT on my phone and can only hope Apple gets their act together soon and gets this fixed (or just goes back to using Google Maps).

In the meantime, I'll be using the Google Maps web app when the Apple one fails...
 
Posted this in another thread, figured I'd share it here too.

Speaking of Google Maps, my cousin asked me just now what I though of iOS 6 and I told him I like it overall but prefer the Google Maps App. He had this to say and is now ignoring me:

The biggest and only noteworthy feature of it is a disaster that will likely kill people, yet you like it overall. Cool. I don't think I can talk to you about this stuff anymore, you're not rational when it comes to Apple
 
I searched for a park near my home, it dropped a pin in the next town of a road named similar to the park. The park isn't even on the map. It's on google maps, and it's a real place. This Apple map sucks!

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Locodice said:
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This was a company run by a CEO who had sleepless nights over the fact that the yellow in the original Google icon was the incorrect shade.... what has happened to their attention to detail?
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Tim Cook happened.
 
Roc P. said:
Posted this in another thread, figured I'd share it here too.

Speaking of Google Maps, my cousin asked me just now what I though of iOS 6 and I told him I like it overall but prefer the Google Maps App. He had this to say and is now ignoring me:

The biggest and only noteworthy feature of it is a disaster that will likely kill people, yet you like it overall. Cool. I don't think I can talk to you about this stuff anymore, you're not rational when it comes to Apple
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likely kill people? :rolleyes:

doesn't look like your cousin is in a position to lecture you on rationality.......
 
If I were google I'd tell apple to stick it, enjoy the crap maps. Use some of those millions!


Anyone notice the icon for makes routes you making a left turn and jumping over the embankment onto another street. Ironic isn't it! lol
 
ThisIsNotMe said:
Thats exactly the point.
Is Apple going to spend their time rolling out V1 with a "small college town" or San Francisco? Some dirt road village in India or New York?

You guys act like this product has been on the market for 8 years.
The removal of Gallery was a far worse "update" than this Maps "disaster".
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The fundamental problem with the new Apple maps is lack of information density compared to Google's mature product. There are many issues in big markets too, it's just more apparent in a smaller town.

The time on the market makes no difference. When the world's most valuable company makes a change to one of the most important features of it's product it had better work well from day 1!
 
I would be something else if information just wasn't there, but instead it is wrong information which makes the app completely unusable. At first I thought people are vastly exaggerating but I just tried the nav function myself and just thought wow, this is bad. My dairy is now 2 streets further away, a gas station appeared in the middle of a square and although I could already see my house straight ahead the nav wanted me to make another 3 turns.
 
I'm not a graphics person or a cartographer or GIS guy or anyone who can claim to know anything about map making but here is my hair-brained theory on the matter; they screwed up their method of trying to overlay vector based mapping with normal (albeit very very poor in places) 2D satellite images and on top of that, add some kind of virtual 3D effect as eye candy. Hence all the seriously f@cked up looking stuff like wonky bridges, odd shaped buildings, roads that look like roller coasters etc and just lots of ****ed up looking **** that hugs the terrain too much.

Which brings me to my real point. 3D is a ******** concept in the first place, unless you're talking R2D2 style holograms etc. 3D TV is ****. 3D cinema is ****. 3D maps on iOS are ****. 3D anything on a flat screen is ****! Marketing men invented 3D as we currently know it, and it's ****. Nobody wanted it and nobody asked for it but all of a sudden it has to be built into everything and too many people seem to think they need it and are willing to pay extra for it!

It's just a gimmick. FlyOver is just a gimmick even if you are in a well covered major metropolis. Street View is not 3D but it can be extremely USEFUL to have in your pocket! It's fantastic being able to stroll down a road before you've even arrived there in the flesh, scoping out all sorts of detail up to and including the number on someones door!
 
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