A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps

Re:A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps by cooldeal on Friday September 28, 2012 @12:25PM (#4586336)

> Apple engineers are not known for being dumb. Someone had to know that Maps was a bad idea. A huge step backwards. They had to know.

Maps is a unique problem in that it's hard to judge quality without doing field tests all over the world. I guess Apple management/engineers/testers live in and did most of their testing in SFO/CA/West Coast/US in that order which gave them a skewed idea of how good or bad the maps were.

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Re:A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps by RandallBrown on Friday September 28, 2012 @12:42PM (#4586424)

I've found the new maps app is dramatically better in most ways. Turn by turn navigation is fantastic. Lack of public transit is a huge downer.

I guess I just live somewhere with decent map data.

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Re:A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps by hnriot on Friday September 28, 2012 @12:52PM (#4586481)

I live in the Bay Area and my town isn't even named on Apple Maps. The streets are there, but they show it with the wrong name. I could understand if this was an obscure little English hamlet in the wilds of Norfolk, but this is the San Francisco Bay Area.

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