Re:Apple Apologizes for Its Maps Problem
by Apocryphon on Friday September 28, 2012 @12:38PM
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You can say the same thing about the antenna problem. Which Jobs did not know the limitations of.
Re:Apple Apologizes for Its Maps Problem
by onetwothreefour on Friday September 28, 2012 @02:04PM
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LOL.
These maps have been available as part of iOS 6 betas for a long time. Apple already knew about the problem, but you can only move so fast. Maps are hard.
This letter isn't really an apology, it's a "use these other things while we update our data".
When i first heard Tim Cook was going to become CEO, my first assumption was that jobs chose him to lock in his legacy as a genius CEO... Sometimes, stories like this make me thing that there's a possibility thats true.
Steve Jobs was a geek after all. Tim Cook is an industrial engineer, with a lot of history in in computing.
Does anyone think they don't realize the maps are subpar? The problem is, they can't get better data without having millions of users interact with it daily. Their only option was to do the startup-y approach and launch not-perfect then keep iterating. In another year nobody (except for the extreme nerdophiles) will remember apple maps being disadequate.
Re:Apple Apologizes for Its Maps Problem
by spinchange on Friday September 28, 2012 @12:30PM
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>In another year nobody (except for the extreme nerdophiles) will remember apple maps being disadequate.
I think if it gets the average user lost or late even once or twice, they will remember and not trust it. It will also have given people who decided to buy an Andorid or other phone instead of the iPhone 5 justification for their mobile platform choice/change.
Remember: Jobs used the products extensively before they were launched. If Tim had done so, he would have seen the deficiencies in Maps, instead of just relying on his underlings saying "it'll be OK".