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Yeah it's all arguable but seriously "minor defect"? Holding a phone has to be a mandatory design requirement wouldn't you agree? Compare this to a faulty keybo

Yeah it's all arguable but seriously "minor defect"? Holding a phone has to be a mandatory design requirement wouldn't you agree? Compare this to a faulty keyboard I'd say holding a phone causing it to be useless trumps that. Maps was bad. Real bad. > The police department stated that the error was potentially life-threatening, as national park temperatures could rise to 114 °F (46 °C) and those traveling would be without water supplies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Maps#Early_inaccuracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Maps#Early_inaccuracy Just because they made updates over the last 7 years doesn't take away from the fact that the initial release was a big "design screwup". Magic Mouse v2 yeah I get the charge time doesn't last long but it's still a stupid design. Less critical sure I agree.

JeremyBanks 8y ago
Apple Maps was really bad, but that doesn't necessarily make it a mistake. IIRC, Google was demanding that Apple share a lot more user data for further use of their data in Maps, which would probably have been worse for Apple long-term (particularly given how well their privacy angle is serving them now in 2018). If they picked the better of two bad options, that's not a screwup, it's just unfortunate. The quality was understandable for the amount of time they had to produce it. There are limits on how fast you can effectively scale up to compete with Google's thousands of Maps staff. The antenna problem may have been worse than I remember. I'd still say that at least that has cheap and easy user fixes once you become aware of the issue.