I've been away from this forum for overy two years - in that time I left Toronto and moved to SF, changed jobs, phones, and now maps!
I came back to see what people thought of the new maps app and whether we had a meaningful and vigourous debate going! I was sorely disappointed so I thought I would start a thread.
I jumped the gun and moved my (relatively new) iPhone4S upto iOS6 the day it released. I've no idea what possessed me to do that! I usually have to be pushed and prodded into doing anything that major.
Perhaps it was the thought of turn by turn navigation, perhaps it was flyovers, improved Siri, the joys of searching the app store for youTube apps, email and calendar breaking down - who knows - it was one of those days.
Obviously the Apple maps dataset is poor, maps search is ridiculously bad and the crazy dependency on Yelp for any tagged search is unfortunate. The rich detail of Google maps is lost, so is street view etc. This is generally well known even in San Francisco
It seems equally clear that Apple will never come close to caching up and building the rich data set that Google has - it seems equally clear that Google won't support the Android turn by turn features on iOS - the strategic thrust being to move people off the platform.
So, why are the (not so) fanbois not raising a ruckus and forcing Apple to action? Are people already so accepting of the failures of Apple now that SJ is no longer at the helm?
Have you all just given up and lay down to die ?
Maybe we need to be less apathetic and fight for what we want rather than simply accept the crap doled out as the result of corporate manouvering....
Before you all whine and chime in with Google's separate maps app and TomTom and Navigon, remember that Apple tightly controls the app integration and none of these work intuitively on the device and are completely unintegrated.
For those that don't care, I guess its fair to say that you don't use maps and you don't care, but I must say I'm quite surprised by the lack of discussion - do most of you really not care?
Or have I gone back to the 20th century? Or am I so SF'ized now, that what I regard as unacceptable is quite within the realm of acceptability for most other people?
Whatever it is, I feel the need to raise it! Flame, rant or rave, but people, show some sign of life for heaven's sake!
I came back to see what people thought of the new maps app and whether we had a meaningful and vigourous debate going! I was sorely disappointed so I thought I would start a thread.
I jumped the gun and moved my (relatively new) iPhone4S upto iOS6 the day it released. I've no idea what possessed me to do that! I usually have to be pushed and prodded into doing anything that major.
Perhaps it was the thought of turn by turn navigation, perhaps it was flyovers, improved Siri, the joys of searching the app store for youTube apps, email and calendar breaking down - who knows - it was one of those days.
Obviously the Apple maps dataset is poor, maps search is ridiculously bad and the crazy dependency on Yelp for any tagged search is unfortunate. The rich detail of Google maps is lost, so is street view etc. This is generally well known even in San Francisco
It seems equally clear that Apple will never come close to caching up and building the rich data set that Google has - it seems equally clear that Google won't support the Android turn by turn features on iOS - the strategic thrust being to move people off the platform.
So, why are the (not so) fanbois not raising a ruckus and forcing Apple to action? Are people already so accepting of the failures of Apple now that SJ is no longer at the helm?
Have you all just given up and lay down to die ?
Maybe we need to be less apathetic and fight for what we want rather than simply accept the crap doled out as the result of corporate manouvering....
Before you all whine and chime in with Google's separate maps app and TomTom and Navigon, remember that Apple tightly controls the app integration and none of these work intuitively on the device and are completely unintegrated.
For those that don't care, I guess its fair to say that you don't use maps and you don't care, but I must say I'm quite surprised by the lack of discussion - do most of you really not care?
Or have I gone back to the 20th century? Or am I so SF'ized now, that what I regard as unacceptable is quite within the realm of acceptability for most other people?
Whatever it is, I feel the need to raise it! Flame, rant or rave, but people, show some sign of life for heaven's sake!