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Why not just search for "sfo" or "airport", both of which return the airport correctly on iOS 6's maps? Typing out "san francisco international" and leaving out
by guywithabike 14y ago
Why not just search for "sfo" or "airport", both of which return the airport correctly on iOS 6's maps? Typing out "san francisco international" and leaving out "airport" seems incredibly contrived.
- zmmz 14y agoNo, it isn't. When most people refer to a place, they refer to it by it's common name. You fly to JFK, Heathrow, Charles de Gaule, Gatwick, Luton, O'Hare, etc. There is no need to add "airport" to something which so obviously is one in the context. The familiarity of common names is why wikipedia uses them for article names: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_titles#Common_names http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_titles#Common...
- Bud 14y agoYou're missing something obvious, which is that out of all the airports you listed, NONE of them is named after the city it's in or near. SFO, of course, is. Which makes this particular search MUCH more ambiguous unless you include the word "airport".
- reddit_clone 14y agoThe answer to the problem of not coming up with the right answer for a perfectly reasonable query is 'Change your query'? Apple apologists are actually making Apple lazy and entitled. Any sub standard stuff needs to be pointed out. Not hand-waved away.
- untog 14y agoWhy should I have to? Google knows exactly what I'm asking for when I enter any of those terms, Apple does not. That is a deficiency on Apple's part, I shouldn't have to change my behaviour.