Q: Apple maps very disappointing

Where I live I found the Apple app had more info, like my nieghbor hoods name and so on. Maybe because I'm in SF, but it works great for me. It has restaurants, bus stops, train stations. Most of the time I use it driving though and I just want clear crisp easy to read info, and the Apple app is better at that. Plus I know this is just the start, and it will just get better. And the google maps still works too, people just like to cry, whine, and complain. So spoiled, everything has to be perfetct. Live with an android phone for a few months. Four of my friends tried, Three were back on the iphone within six months. The other works at Google! True story.

Street view is gross! An overly intrusive service used by thugs and thiefs. We should have the right to opt our residences out of street view. Google is always spying on you. Many better search engines out there to boot, like duckduckgo that aren't stealing and spying on every minute thing you do.

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This is HILARIOUS  -  http://theamazingios6maps.tumblr.com

Every online company steals your data. Google and Apple are the ones that just got caught. "people just like to cry, whine, and complain." Not everyone is a diehard fan boi, not everyone bends over when Apple says to.

For crying and complaining...WHICH MAP HAS MORE INFO?

Insert searches for popular college, Virginia Tech

Note the Apple version on the right is not in the middle of a desert. This is the same location on the Google maps on the left

FANBOIS!

RonHarmen wrote:

 

Street view is gross! An overly intrusive service used by thugs and thiefs. We should have the right to opt our residences out of street view. Google is always spying on you. Many better search engines out there to boot, like duckduckgo that aren't stealing and spying on every minute thing you do.

I agree. Does anyone know an alternative app similar to the old google one that has streeview?

preferably free

I updated to ios6 but kept my wifes at ios5, so yes, i could do a side by side like above.  wow, it is night and day. My biggest complaint as you can see above is how hard it is to see the roads in Apple maps!  At least make the roads bigger and place more strret names on it.  I always relied on it for traveling, I'd be scared if I had to travel right now.

I'm can be very critical, even of apple. I'm just honestly saying for me, I never thought the google app was that great. It never worked smoothly, and in my city anyway, the apple map has all the info I need, plus it is fast and easy to read. So I am axtremeley happy with it. But, what is the big deal, you can still use google maps in the browser, or you can buy a different phone. No real problem as I see it.

+1 to bring back google maps, at least until this application can be perfected. It consistently gets addresses wrong and contains less useful features than google maps.

I am also dissapointed that 3D is disabled for iPhone 4. The phone can handle the graphics for sure, as the Google Earth app runs fine. You can enable 3D with a simple jailbreak, so it really looks like apple is trying to force users to upgrade devices.

To recap: For users like me, Apple has taken away all of the useful features in Maps and replaced them with cool but unnecessary 3D buildings that can't be accessed from my 2 year old device.

Boo.

RonHarmen wrote:

 

I'm can be very critical, even of apple. I'm just honestly saying for me, I never thought the google app was that great. It never worked smoothly, and in my city anyway, the apple map has all the info I need, plus it is fast and easy to read. So I am axtremeley happy with it. But, what is the big deal, you can still use google maps in the browser, or you can buy a different phone. No real problem as I see it.

"I am axtremeley happy with it....you can still use google maps in the browser, or you can buy a different phone."
Listen dummy! Two days ago, I was able to use a Maps program on my newly purchased 4S to replace a faulty Samsung, which I will not be eligible for another upgrade until the year 2081. Contracts buddy.

You live in San Francisco? Ever heard of University of California in Berkley near SF? Perhaps we should have google and apple show us some information.

Apple on Right, and Google on the Left.
PLEASE TELL ME that the Right shows more information, or is the too much information overwhelming?

This is you RonHarmen!!

"the apple map has all the info I need, plus it is fast and easy to read"

-RonHarmen

You can keep your cluttered app, UCB, all the raods, halls and all the info I want is there plus it loaded quick and easy. All I had to do to find it was swipe my finger across the bay and there it was. With the google app I would be looking at a grey grid while it was still loading. What you fail to understand is the google maps service is still available, and I don't need to like the crapy slow google app. I like the apple one, clean, fast, simple, and beutiful. But I like minimal clutter too. You are free to use google app, I don't care. You don't look that good in your that outfit btw.

"You can keep your cluttered app, UCB, all the raods, halls and all the info I want is there plus it loaded quick and easy"

Really? IT SHOWS NOTHING!!! That is why it loads quicker!

The sad thing is that by and large, Apple will only "hear" what people like RonHarmensay or actually not say, and will say we're all sour grapes who are complaining.

I have a sneaky suspicion that not many people rely on maps so Apple ditching Google for a clearly inferior product was based on stats. The really interesting thing to all this is will TomTom's share will take a hit in the GPS market. Because anyone with half a brain now will know how lousy TomTom maps are, if not before, they do now. Having said that, many news reports indicate that Apple and the iPhone jumped the Shark with the 4S and things will never be quite as innovative or slick any more.

Apple maps is so bad I actually gave a thought about what it would be like switching to Android and I never ever thought I would say that.  It would be so much better to give us choose between Google or Apple for default maps.

I use the search all the time and street view, search is now broken badly inside maps and basically unusable, street view is gone.

With that being said, I think they will throw some money at this to get it up to speed faster...they have to, this is not going to go away and if they ignore it, it will hurt them.  Throw a few of those billions around and buy a fleet of cars and do a BETTER street view, flyover is no big to me and looks like a war zone.

So for now I will use google chrome, and maps.google, but thats not how my phone should work.

I say bring back google maps by giving users a choice, at least for now.