Apple vs Google Maps

Perplexer- wrote:

It's funny how Apple thinks that showing a few 3D views of one American city will make everything good and best. Like the rest of the world doesn't exist. 80% of iPhone / iOS features is tailored to the US users. I for one am not happy with how Apple is doing things and I will be skipping iPhone 5. It may well be that iPhone 4S will be my first and last Apple phone. Will see what happens in the next 6 months.

Well apple is a US company even though most all of their stuff is made in China.

Drumtosurprise wrote:

I was told by Apple Support that you CANNOT reverse back to ios5 once you have 6 on your Ipad. What is the truth?

Yes that is the truth and anyone that says different is in violation of the TOS.

Shane Michael wrote:

Yes - you are all right, Flash and now Maps, we are being treated like idiots, there are 3 iPads, 5 iPhones, about 10 iPods, two MacBooks, one IMac, one MacBook Pro, two Airport Express, Apple TV, Time Machine in this house, oh and two cancelled iPhone 5's, you should all do the same. They will be reordered as soon as we have Google Maps back.

Shame on you Apple, , Steve must be gone too long.

LMAO. Go ahead. Apple won't miss you. Sorry but the 5 sold out in record time. It is just sad that people like you just can't accept change. I have not had any issue with the maps app. It has found everything I need it to find. If you don't like it there is a ton of other mapping/navigation apps in the app store. Go find one and put it on your phone. I still have tom tom on my phone and will probably be deleting it soon if after my testing of maps shows it can do just the same. BTW maps uses tom tom data so it would be redundant for me to have tom tom which takes up about 2 gigs of space on my iphone right now.

Shane Michael wrote:

Just delete Apple Maps App and use Google Maps in Safari....

Would love to see you try and then see how broke your phone will be. First siri would not function properly when trying to find something. Most other apps that depend on maps will not function either.

BTW you can't delete it.

Howdy,

I feel bad for you folks, but I'm a happy camper. It has been working fine or me in California, Bakersfield, and all over L.A. Even Las Vegas. I've moved around a bit in the last few days, and it's matched my nice Garmin, tit for tat.

Whatever the problem may be, rest assured that Apple will fix it soon.

Cheers,

M.

Of course it sold out, doesn't mean that the map is acceptable or even decent. People are allowed to provide negative feedback, especially when Apple is supposed to be about the premium user experience.

As TomTom have themselves stated, they provided the data, doesn't mean that Apple used it correctly.

In my area of the UK Apple have taken the data and put the pins in the wrong place., some of the addresses are correct, but in the correct area.

That was supposed to read incorrect area!

Hey KC7GN,

stop defending Apple. I can remember a time when Apple was a small company and was surrounded by "bad Windows users". But now the time has changed. Everyone is using an iPhone and only people who don't use it have to defend themselves.

So now back to the facts: I'm using Apple more than 10 years and quality gets more worse and worse since then. And Apple Maps is a joke. I'm right now in Thailand and all street names are not anymore in English. That means me - a foreigner - is NOT able anymore to orientate myself in Thailand with the iPhone. What the ****? And where is the point to talk about "changes"? That's not a change, it's just super silly! iOS 5 with Google Maps worked just fine and was perfect and no other App or maps.google.com can replace that. And me - the customer - I am not able to choose wether I want to use Google or Apple, since the App Store doesn't offer Google Maps. I know this arrogance since more than 10 years but I accepted it because Apple offered quality. But nowadays...

But you are right: Now Apple will not miss Shane Michael nor me, but they have to take care. Soon there will be not too many reasons anymore to but Apple products. And if Apple won't allow Google to put Google Maps into the App Store my iPhone 3GS will be my first and last iPhone.

Steve

I also find it odd when people write comments such as, "people like you just can't accept change." This is not change for the better. It is a huge usability downgrade. Images are blurred. Info is wrong. Street and block info is missing. This is change we "should accept?" That just makes no sense.

The following statement by Apple really annoys me no end. The fanboys point to it and say people don't understand change. I do understand degrading a service and abusing your customer base.

"We launched this new map service knowing it is a major initiative and that we are just getting started with it," an Apple spokeswoman said, according to Mashable. "Maps is a cloud-based solution and the more people use it, the better it will get. We appreciate all of the customer feedback and are working hard to make the customer experience even better."

What is this "just getting started" business? We had a perfectly fine working app before. So for whom is Apple just getting started? Obviously not for us. So it must be for them.

doug

Well, of course it's for them. When's the last time a company has honestly done something FOR the consumer? They don't have to pay Google for maps or youtube anymore.

Who said Apple won't let Google put Maps in the App Store? No one has made that claim, not even Apple. Google has known for some time the new iOS would not have Maps or YouTube. They successfully launched a YouTube app and they will likely launch a Maps app. They just haven't done it. Yet. In the meantime, we get it. Many don't like Apple's Maps Application. So, don't use it. There are loads of other options in the App Store. Many are free. MapQuest and Waze are just two that are highly recommended. Instead of coming here whining like a child, do something. Get an app that better meets your needs.

It's not "whining like a child." It's making a legitimate complaint about a degradation in usability over what Apple provided before.

And nobody said Apple won't let Google put Maps in the App store. Where did you read that? The complaint is Apple dropping a perfectly working app with accurate, usable data and replacing it with a new home-brew service that works poorly and reduces usability. It's a legitimate thing to complain about.

I swear, it's hard to understand the contortions Apple aplogists will go through to justify anything and everything the company does, even when they do something which makes things worse for their customers.

doug

It seems like Apple is trying to block the new Google Search w/ Enhanced Voice Search app from being put out for download, so I wouldn't put it above them to block Google Maps if they were to submit the app. I'm not an Apple apologist by any means, I like Windows Phone 8, I like Android 4.1 and above, and I like iOS despite it being pretty stale after 6 years.

I like multiple systems too. Actually, the Google Maps app I have on my test Android 2.3 device has a nice feature the discontinued Apple Maps app didn't have. You can use two fingers to rotate the map. I thought that was cool.

Anyway, it's too bad Apple turned its own maps app into such an unusable mess.

doug