Augmented reality
It's funny.. we used Apple Maps for the first time in forever and naturally we ended up wasting like 13 minutes going downtown Toronto compared to what Google Maps was telling my other friend.
Her directions, as in, the way she gives directions, are much better than Google's.Google Maps has turn by turn. When I went to South Africa and Apple Maps tried to take us the wrong way onto an interstate on ramp SEVERAL times, we moved over to Google Maps and had zero issues. I will never trust Apple Maps again.
It's not the same. Obviously the NSA is likely getting information from both but Apple doesn't sell your shit to advertisers (and advertisers are actually pretty ticked off about it).Apple maps was bad in NYC. Had to use Google.
People are talking like giving information to Google isn't equal to giving information to Apple. "Oh thank god I'm safe now"
Wait a minute, why would this be necessary unless Apple Maps was a hot fucking mess today? Because certain GAF posters keep telling me it's hunky dory now.
It's been nearly two years. We are more than past the point where Apple have demonstrated they have no ability to do a mapping application dataset, and there is no reason to suspect even if they want to they'd suddenly get any better at it. It remains the case that with little investment and no search engine they have a significant structural data collection disadvantage that cannot be countered, even if they were to do a better job than the embarrassment they are today.
It's a waste of time. Let users select their mapping programme. And kill Apple Maps.
Transit directions are crucial. Not all of us have a car and I haven't used Apple Maps once because of that.
Apple Maps surpassed Google Maps a while ago. Apple maps is far more accurate at taking you right to the front door of your location while Google Maps tends to cut out when you get close. Apple Maps also does the turn by turn navigation much better.
Talk about gross exaggeration. If Google Maps is so perfect why would they ever update it? Why did they acquire Waze? Will they be integrating some of Waze's features in the future?
Maybe they should have just let user select their mapping program??!
Apple Maps has some issues, but it has greatly improved sine release. And the turn by turn screen is way better than Google Maps. If they improve POI data immensely an add transit data, I may switch permanently.
Wait a minute, why would this be necessary unless Apple Maps was a hot fucking mess today? Because certain GAF posters keep telling me it's hunky dory now.
It's been nearly two years. We are more than past the point where Apple have demonstrated they have no ability to do a mapping application dataset, and there is no reason to suspect even if they want to they'd suddenly get any better at it. It remains the case that with little investment and no search engine they have a significant structural data collection disadvantage that cannot be countered, even if they were to do a better job than the embarrassment they are today.
It's a waste of time. Let users select their mapping programme. And kill Apple Maps.
Missing the most important upgrade:
-Allowing user to delete Apple Maps and replace with Google Maps
It's not the same. Obviously the NSA is likely getting information from both but Apple doesn't sell your shit to advertisers (and advertisers are actually pretty ticked off about it).
Oh please. Google Maps never has to announce that they're actually going to start doing things as basic as transit or POI.
Err... Android does let users select their mapping programme.
In the UK it may have actually regressed slightly. It certainly hasn't improved. There's (marginally) more data, but if anything it's even less accurate.
Turn by turn is an irrelevance.
Citations needed
p.s. you can use Google maps without a Google account
Amazon's sales approach is too pushy; Apple is too reticent to foster relationships. Most frustrating: Neither is willing to cough up enough of the consumer data that attracts advertisers to them in the first place.
Not an early Steam user, I take it?
Honestly Google had a 10 year head start on this as well as a fleet of cars, they are extremely hard to compete with in geo.
But that's the point isn't it?
As an end user, I don't care who had ten years head start. In the same way I didn't give a shit that Sony wanted to built it's own processor infrastructure for the PS3 and learned they were no fucking good at that either.
The product is out today, competing against Google Maps today, expecting to be used today. And it fails, comprehensively, on every possible level. It is inconceivable it will ever even begin to catch up too.
And yet Apple thought it was a good idea to ruin their platform by making it fundamentally tied into the OS. Cook should have walked over it, not just Forstall. It's not like Cook hadn't seen iOS6 before it shipped. He was CEO. It was his decision not to pull the launch.
Oh please. Google Maps never has to announce that they're actually going to start doing things as basic as transit or POI.
Err... Android does let users select their mapping programme.
In the UK it may have actually regressed slightly. It certainly hasn't improved. There's (marginally) more data, but if anything it's even less accurate.
Turn by turn is an irrelevance.