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I can't say for sure what Jobs would have done, but you can bet that Jobs would have known about Maps' limitations on Day 1, and he would have addressed the iss
by ajays 14y ago
I can't say for sure what Jobs would have done, but you can bet that Jobs would have known about Maps' limitations on Day 1, and he would have addressed the issue right away instead of waiting for 2 weeks like Tim Cook.
Remember: Jobs used the products extensively before they were launched. If Tim had done so, he would have seen the deficiencies in Maps, instead of just relying on his underlings saying "it'll be OK".
- eyko 14y agoSteve Jobs was a geek after all. Tim Cook is an industrial engineer, with a lot of history in in computing.
- Apocryphon 14y agoYou can say the same thing about the antenna problem. Which Jobs did not know the limitations of.
- swalsh 14y agoWhen i first heard Tim Cook was going to become CEO, my first assumption was that jobs chose him to lock in his legacy as a genius CEO... Sometimes, stories like this make me thing that there's a possibility thats true.
- seiji 14y agoDoes anyone think they don't realize the maps are subpar? The problem is, they can't get better data without having millions of users interact with it daily. Their only option was to do the startup-y approach and launch not-perfect then keep iterating. In another year nobody (except for the extreme nerdophiles) will remember apple maps being disadequate.
- spinchange 14y ago>In another year nobody (except for the extreme nerdophiles) will remember apple maps being disadequate. I think if it gets the average user lost or late even once or twice, they will remember and not trust it. It will also have given people who decided to buy an Andorid or other phone instead of the iPhone 5 justification for their mobile platform choice/change.
- onetwothreefour 14y agoLOL. These maps have been available as part of iOS 6 betas for a long time. Apple already knew about the problem, but you can only move so fast. Maps are hard. This letter isn't really an apology, it's a "use these other things while we update our data".