rbrylawski wrote:
Oh but that's just too logical and something all the whiners could do themselves and has been offered many times today, in many threads, but instead they cry and moan in misery. Over a stupid Map application.
A "stupid map app"? Let's think about the five most useful things that smartphones are used for, apart from making calls and texts, which of course any phone does. I think that unless you never venture farther than five miles from home, a fully-functional map app is one of the most used and most critical apps.
I travel for my job and that takes me anywhere from New York, to Dubai, to Seoul. I used maps constantly. For example:
- I'm not a New Yorker, but I was in New York last week and used the public transit app for getting to my appointments by public transit. That's gone now. For every city in the world.
- In Hong Kong, buildings and street numbers are not always very clear, so I used StreetView extensively to recognize a building that I need to find. Poof, it's gone now.
- In Bangkok, the traffic is legendary. I used Maps to assess traffic and how long it would take me to get to a location by road. Not anymore. That's not part of iOS 6 maps.
Added to that, the new Maps database is incomplete, out of date, and Maps contains businesses in Bangkok that have been closed for at least ten years...before an iPhone even existed. Many current businesses are not listed at all now, much to the chagrin of business owners who relied on iPhone users and Maps to locate their business. Gone.
Based on the time I spend using various apps on my iPhone, I figure I have lost about 20% of its usability due to the loss of that "stupid Map application". I don't like Android, but I do have a Sony Experia that I use as a backup for SIM cards that I have for other countries. At least I have a decent Maps application on that phone, so all is not lost.
