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Apple Maps is a complete joke compared to Google Maps, especially when in a city. Apple Maps is horrendous with navigation and is frequently out of date. For e

Apple Maps is a complete joke compared to Google Maps, especially when in a city. Apple Maps is horrendous with navigation and is frequently out of date. For example, my partner was sent an address, they clicked the address and Apple Maps opened. After two hours of driving, we realized Apple Maps had silently changed the address slightly because it thought we were wrong. We caught the error and tried to correct. Apple was insistent that the address didn't exist, while Google Maps happily did what we asked. I uninstalled Apple Maps from my partner's phone. --- All of this is to say: Apple is not competitive with Google in a lot of respects. Even in OS, they are different ideals and aren't interchangeable in my opinion.

pleinair7 8y ago
If Apple wants to get into self-driving cars, they will need to enhance their mapping capabilities. Maps are really hard to implement because they require almost perfect accuracy. Any errors can lead to big problems. Google has invested enormous effort into its maps and Apple will need to get much better to be competitive.
stephenr 8y ago
So what you're saying is - when a free mapping solution that goes to extraordinary lengths to protect your privacy. offered by a company that makes it's profits on tangible hardware made a mistake, instead of using the built-in 'report problem' feature, you chose to remove that app, and use a service offered by a company that literally makes its money by collecting unimaginable amounts of data about you, your family, what you do, where you work, what you eat what you buy, and where you were going on that journey? Am I the only person who finds this insane?
- cromiium 8y ago
  For some people it's about getting to the destination on time. Plus on the way there I don't think they were about to send a report ticket.
  - stephenr 8y ago
    Who said s/he had to report a ticket on the way to the location? The only action reported (which also likely happened after that specific journey): > I uninstalled Apple Maps from my partner's phone.
code_duck 8y ago
That’s also a good way to describe DDG’s search quality vs. Google’s. I used DDG as my main search for over a year after discovering the setting in Safari. It was not pain-free as the result were never better, only about equal or clearly less useful. I overlooked it because I wanted to support something different and have a non-mainstream experience, which comes naturally to me as an Amiga and long-time desktop Linux user. Finally the last straw was out of date results, like a search pulling up an old version of a major company's website from 4 months ago that now 404’d, while Google had up-to-date results.

pleinair7 8y ago

If Apple wants to get into self-driving cars, they will need to enhance their mapping capabilities. Maps are really hard to implement because they require almost perfect accuracy. Any errors can lead to big problems. Google has invested enormous effort into its maps and Apple will need to get much better to be competitive.

stephenr 8y ago

So what you're saying is - when a free mapping solution that goes to extraordinary lengths to protect your privacy. offered by a company that makes it's profits on tangible hardware made a mistake, instead of using the built-in 'report problem' feature, you chose to remove that app, and use a service offered by a company that literally makes its money by collecting unimaginable amounts of data about you, your family, what you do, where you work, what you eat what you buy, and where you were going on that journey? Am I the only person who finds this insane?

cromiium 8y ago
For some people it's about getting to the destination on time. Plus on the way there I don't think they were about to send a report ticket.
- stephenr 8y ago
  Who said s/he had to report a ticket on the way to the location? The only action reported (which also likely happened after that specific journey): > I uninstalled Apple Maps from my partner's phone.

code_duck 8y ago

That’s also a good way to describe DDG’s search quality vs. Google’s. I used DDG as my main search for over a year after discovering the setting in Safari. It was not pain-free as the result were never better, only about equal or clearly less useful. I overlooked it because I wanted to support something different and have a non-mainstream experience, which comes naturally to me as an Amiga and long-time desktop Linux user. Finally the last straw was out of date results, like a search pulling up an old version of a major company's website from 4 months ago that now 404’d, while Google had up-to-date results.