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Re:Replacing iOS 6 Maps: Hands-on with MapQuest, Bing, Waze,... by cktse on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @01:41PM (#4608628)
If US experience is subpar, international is even worse. Take HK for example, iOS 6 Maps doesn't even come with basic street numbers! To add to the insult, just try searching for "Hong Kong" on Waze, for a laugh... Yes the deformed blob is meant to be HK! Obviously Tim Cook never tested international searches before recommending it...

Commercially this just doesn't make sense given China is the fastest growing market for Apple.

All in all, a very disappointing user experience.

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Re:Replacing iOS 6 Maps: Hands-on with MapQuest, Bing, Waze,... by snogglethorpe on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @05:44PM (#4609796)
> try searching for "Hong Kong" on Waze, for a laugh

Of course, Waze seems to be unabashedly car-oriented, not really a general mapping service—and nobody in their right mind drives in Hong Kong...

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