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Yes, I agree that ads in maps would be a bad customer experience. But "The customer experience was all-important" is a bit reductionist. The hockey puck mouse
by microtherion 11mo ago
Yes, I agree that ads in maps would be a bad customer experience.
But "The customer experience was all-important" is a bit reductionist. The hockey puck mouse stuck around for years after it became clear it was a poor customer experience. And I have cursed desktop Macs countless times for having all their ports in the back, because Jobs disliked seeing them, customer experience be damned.
- gretch 11mo agoOr how the iphone 4 antenna was obstructed by normal holding of the phone (including poses in apple marketing materials), and then steve just told everyone they were holding their phones wrong.
- Y-bar 11mo agoYeah. The phone was faulty from a hardware design standpoint, and the manner Steve Jobs handled it was bad. But he was correct on one point: Every other manufacturer at the time had a paragraph and illustration in their manual telling people not to hold their phone in a certain manner. I think much of his bad attitude came from this fact that he felt Apple was unfailingly singled out.
- tonyedgecombe 11mo ago>Yes, I agree that ads in maps would be a bad customer experience. If I search for a nearby cafe on Apple Maps it pulls in data from Trip Advisor. I suspect you could provide a better experience than that even with ads (although I doubt they will).
- MangoToupe 11mo agoAds are a good way to be spammed with low-quality options that choose to pay apple.