>Calm down.

He is calm and pointing out a fact.

>Everyone is just calling it Google Maps out of simplicity.

No they aren't calling it Google Maps out of simplicity. Read the article:

"Apple Maps has been getting its share of negative attention since being released, but some new research shines a bright spot on the comparison between Apple’s and Google’s mapping apps."

"Results for the satellite view in Maps showed Apple’s app used about half of Google’s mapping application."

The title is still misleading, should read "old iOS Maps".

I think is his point is that the onus for the lack of data efficiency is on Apple and not Google, which is what the conclusion I came to after reading the article.

but after reading you point, as a laymen, I have no idea what to believe.

I'm just a bit bothered by this phenomena of discovering features on the iPhone that were present on Android for ages and then attributing them to Apple: the notifications shade, voice input, voice actions, the ability to answer phone calls with canned texts, and now maps among many other things.

Many in the press keep omitting the fact that Android did it first, which I think is important in this climate where Apple is very litigious regarding this stuff and the press keeps touting their originality while simultaneously dismissing other innovators.

No one really claims that Apple did them first. In some cases, these features have gained press just because Apple's solution was more elegantly designed.

That is nonsense. It's because Apple generates huge PR, their device launches are treated like news items on most publicans.

Also it could be because Apple feels the need to give every minute feature a name which is also a PR thing.

Oh, and none of the features I've mentioned are better executed on iOS.

So, it probably means that Apple is pretty good at marketing features to customers.

It sounds like your motive is not to have an honest argument, but rather diss Apple/iOS and how they violate your worldview. This is not the forum to do that. Go to engadget or something.

I'm just a bit bothered by this phenomena of discovering features on Android that were present on Palm phones for ages and then attributing them to Android: voice input, voice actions, the ability to answer phone calls with canned texts, and now maps among many other things.

You have heard of Palm, right ?

Fairly sure one of my old dumbphones had canned texts for phone calls.

One of the good things about Apple is precisely what lot of people here are complaining about: they tell you what you can do with your phone and why it's neat. Samsung have been getting on board wih this of late, with their Apple mockery ads, where they actually advertise features to the general public.

I'm far more bothered by Apple's process of discovering features that were on Palm / Windows Mobile / Symbian / ... phones for ages and then either patenting them or figuring out a way to twist decade-old Mac OS patents into covering them.

The reason I dived into Android with so much relish was because it was so much like my Asus WinMo PDA. The TOMTOM maps on that was brilliant. GPS was way more accurate than Google Maps, both as in "determining what road you're on" and "pinpoint accuracy in the middle of nowhere".

Neither have the press evidently.