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Well, they had two choices in front of them. Suck it up and partner, or suck it up and risk this situation. Whilst I'm sure they'd have gotten a 1-year licensi
by nicholassmith 14y ago
Well, they had two choices in front of them. Suck it up and partner, or suck it up and risk this situation.
Whilst I'm sure they'd have gotten a 1-year licensing agreement with Microsoft I can only guess it'd come with a steep price tag on. Plus they'd just been burnt by dealing with a third party. Plus (again, sorry), they need to have the Maps application being used by people worldwide to improve the quality. It doesn't get better with time, it gets better with users moaning.
- camiller 14y agoFWIW, I've read elsewhere that Google has had 1000 contractors in India cleaning up map data for 5 years. People using it isn't going to clean it up with "moaning". Apple is going to have to throw a LOT of resources at fixing this.
- nicholassmith 14y agoMore people moan the more likely it is Apple will throw resources at it. It needs people using it and complaining to show where the data isn't working.
- camiller 14y agoDo they actually have a system in place the allows users to report enough detail to fix something? Personally I don't consider bug reports moaning.
- nicholassmith 14y agoFrom trying it there does seem to be a reasonable level of detail. I don't of course just mean the bug reports, I mean every email going into customer support, every snarky comment directed at Apple and so on. It'll encourage them to dig deep, hopefully.
- mvelie 14y agoThere's a "report issue" button if you hit the bottom right corner of the map. It allows you to drop pins where issues are and gives free text fields to enter information.