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Why does the glass always have to be half empty? Maybe Apple simply was the better choice?
by st3fan 8y ago
Why does the glass always have to be half empty? Maybe Apple simply was the better choice?
- jhall1468 8y agoDDG's entire schtick was privacy and they are switching from open data + commercial sources to a commercial company.
- godelski 8y agoIs it though? A few months ago Apple Maps gave me wrong directions going from Custer State Park to Mt. Rushmore (two major tourist locations relatively near one another).
- atomwaffel 8y agoAt least here in western Norway, Mapbox’s directions are incredibly buggy, to the point where they’ll send you on a 150-kilometre scenic drive (including two ferries) to avoid a tunnel instead of going 15 kilometres straight through the mountain. This is apparently because they’re rolling their own telemetrics-based data on top of the OSM road network. Then again, Apple Maps (on DuckDuckGo) seems to think I that want my maps labelled in Indonesian, so you may still have a point.
- ams6110 8y agoPrivacy aside, Apple maps, in my experience, are definitely worse than Google in terms of actually corresponding to reality. Apple Maps navigation also takes me on convoluted routes far more often than Google does.
- itwasntandy 8y agoMy own experience ( North east US) has been somewhat different recently. Yes routes from Apple maps, may appear longer or more convoluted at first glance. However after using it ( due to CarPlay) for a while on routes I had previously regularly done using google maps, I inferred a reasoning for that. On the ~90 minute journey to my in-laws, the predicted journey time, is generally advertised as being quicker on google, but in practice the time difference is marginal. What was different in my experience anyway, is that Apple maps seems to try to minimize left turns where appropriate. The benefit being a noticeably less stressful journey. Has anyone else noticed this?
- macintux 8y agoI can’t speak to left turns, but someone attempted a careful evaluation of the turn-by-turn options and Apple’s estimates were generally more conservative, leading to the conclusion that you point out, that Apple looked slower but wasn’t.
- maxerickson 8y agoTo be fair, the glass is often full of gasoline.