Re:Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
by Caballeras on Monday February 08, 2016 @09:42PM
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According to this article http://fortune.com/2015/06/16/apple-google-maps-ios/ Apples maps is used by Apple iPhone users more then Google Maps. So it's hard to believe it's as bad as you claim.
Re:Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
by kentosi on Monday February 08, 2016 @09:54PM
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Hardly surprising, given it's installed by default. And that clicking on an address (say, on a website or a text message) leads up Apple's Maps by default.
Re:Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
by throwawaymsft on Monday February 08, 2016 @11:01PM
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It's not hard to believe user preferences can be different from the market share of pre installed applications (i.e., I.E.).
edit: just tested Apple Maps with a couple searches I did in Google Maps yesterday. Searched for the carrier shops for the two biggest carriers in my country. First search took me to Australia. The other ones found nothing in my city (there are probably at least 10-20 of each carrier in this town) and zoomed out to country level. Still completely and utterly useless.
That said, I'm no big Google Maps fan either, they have a lot of data issues as well. I tend to use a local app which works much better for public transit and car navigation, and has a nice category drill-down for POIs which works around a lot of the issues with free-text search