Re:Apple Shuffles AI Executive Ranks in Bid to Turn Around Siri
by mway on Friday March 21, 2025 @04:50PM
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I've had a similar experience as well. I had sort of hand waved it as being better due to tighter CarPlay integration (i.e. that there is usually, IME, higher-detail UX - which ostensibly leaves less room for interpretation).
> It will be a long time before I rely on Apple Maps for satnav again.
I assume you mean Google Maps :)
Re:Apple Shuffles AI Executive Ranks in Bid to Turn Around Siri
by kridsdale1 on Friday March 21, 2025 @05:16PM
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My team works on the CarPlay implementation of Google Maps.
Apple severely dictates and limits what we or any other app can do there as far as UX, while not holding themselves to the same rules.
I ran Android Auto for the first time yesterday and was impressed by how much more “Google” it was.
Google Maps gave me instructions to turn off a junction right at the turn off, resulting in me missing it. Worst still, it did this not once but twice. And the detour was via road works.
Google Maps added a considerable amount of time onto what was already a 3 hour journey.
Thankfully I had planned for problems so there wasn’t any negative outcomes aside time lost and a considerable amount of additional stress when I was already in an emotionally bad place.
On the journey home I used Apple Maps and the difference in the directions were night and day.
Apple Maps gave me ample warning before each junction. It described the junctions (eg “right turn 100 yards after the traffic lights”) so I knew exactly where I was going. Even told me what lane I needed to be in.
Google Maps did do this on occasions to be fair. But it was highly inconsistent. Hence why I got stung so badly when its instructions were last minute. Whereas Apple Maps was 100% reliable 100% of the time.
It will be a long time before I rely on Apple Maps for satnav again.