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> Apple engineers are not known for being dumb. Someone had to know that Maps was a bad idea. A huge step backwards. They had to know. Maps is a unique problem
by cooldeal 14y ago
> Apple engineers are not known for being dumb. Someone had to know that Maps was a bad idea. A huge step backwards. They had to know.
Maps is a unique problem in that it's hard to judge quality without doing field tests all over the world. I guess Apple management/engineers/testers live in and did most of their testing in SFO/CA/West Coast/US in that order which gave them a skewed idea of how good or bad the maps were.
- RandallBrown 14y agoI've found the new maps app is dramatically better in most ways. Turn by turn navigation is fantastic. Lack of public transit is a huge downer. I guess I just live somewhere with decent map data.
- hnriot 14y agoI live in the Bay Area and my town isn't even named on Apple Maps. The streets are there, but they show it with the wrong name. I could understand if this was an obscure little English hamlet in the wilds of Norfolk, but this is the San Francisco Bay Area.