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It seems that Apple painted itself into a corner here. Apple releases a new iPhone every year and it comes with major-ish OS update. They can't just not ship a
by kkowalczyk 14y ago
It seems that Apple painted itself into a corner here.
Apple releases a new iPhone every year and it comes with major-ish OS update. They can't just not ship and wait until it's perfect - there's too much money riding on this upgrade cycle.
At the same time, Apple dropped contract with Google way before iOS 6 was ready.
Since delaying iPhone 5/iOS 6 combo was out of the question and they didn't prepare for the plan B (i.e. shipping Google's maps) their only option was to ship their maps regardless of how shitty they are.
- eloisant 14y agoCan't they do like Google with Android, and release updates for their core apps independently from the App Store?
- fpgeek 14y agoIn theory, sure. In practice, that's not what they do.
- josephlord 14y agoIs the app actually a problem itself? It seems fast, slick and fairly clean to me. The data on the other hand is pretty terrible but the good thing is that can be cleaned up server side. There is a lot of data to fix though so it will take a considerable time.