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A fun anecdote regarding Maps. I was talking with a friend of mine last night on the iPhone. She was complaining that her iPhone was working poorly, and she wa
by eddieroger 14y ago
A fun anecdote regarding Maps.
I was talking with a friend of mine last night on the iPhone. She was complaining that her iPhone was working poorly, and she was frustrated with it. I asked if she had updated to iOS 6 yet, since sometimes a restore cycle can clear things up. She told me, no, she wasn't, because she heard maps were terrible. I said, "did you hear they are terrible, or have you used them and think they're terrible?" She said she heard only. Interestingly, though, she said she had been using turn-by-turn with "a voice telling her when to turn." I asked her to go to Settings and check, and sure enough, she had updated and actually liked new Maps.
I don't deny that new Maps aren't at the level that GMaps were, but they're not really that terrible, either. Unless you required a feature that is gone now (transit, which I don't), then it's really not so bad, at least in my experience, and has improved since the betas.
- lmm 14y ago>Unless you required a feature that is gone now (transit, which I don't), then it's really not so bad I think this is another example of the biggest general complaint about apple Maps, that it's too US-centric. Here in Europe a mapping program that can't do transit is a joke.
- mikeash 14y agoThat's true in many places in the US as well. We have plenty of big cities with well-developed public transportation, after all.
- arrrg 14y agoSo like Google Maps in Germany, then, eh? Google Maps never had any transit info in Germany. It never was a joke, it always was awesome (even if always fraught with problems and errors).
- mikeash 14y agoUn-fucking-believable. The CEO of Apple has come right out and admitted that Maps is sub-par, and the Apple fans are still trying to pretend that the problems are not real.
- scott_s 14y agoSure the problem are real - for other people. But not for me. When I upgraded, I expected maps to suck. To my surprise, moving the map around was smoother, it was easier to read, and the display for directions are better. I also think that's why Apple released it: there are genuine improvements in some areas, but they underestimated how important the missing features are to some people. For some people, the transit features are the reason to use Maps, so it's obviously inferior for them.
- mikeash 14y agoWell, nobody is saying that Maps is awful for everybody. A lot of people are, however, saying that Maps is awful for roughly nobody, and that the complainers are either Apple haters, influenced by the media, never actually tried the app, etc.
- scott_s 14y agoThe person you were replying to, however, was not saying that, so trying to make that point in reply to him is a non-sequitur.
- mikeash 14y ago"I don't deny that new Maps aren't at the level that GMaps were, but they're not really that terrible, either. Unless you required a feature that is gone now (transit, which I don't), then it's really not so bad, at least in my experience, and has improved since the betas." How much clearer does it need to be? He comes out and says, right there, that the parts that aren't outright missing are fine. This is not my experience, nor is it the experience of many other people I've talked to.
- scott_s 14y agoBut that is my experience, and was exactly what I said up top. For how I use Maps, the new version is better in every way; I'm actually quite impressed with the animation of scaling and moving around on the map, and with the clarity of features (roads, parks, rivers, etc.).
- brazzy 14y ago> Unless you required a feature that is gone now (transit, which I don't), then it's really not so bad How many of the users don't require accurate, up-to-date map data in a map application?