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I don't know about that PR move you suggested. It's not very becoming of the market leader to publicly express that their own product that hasn't launched yet,
by bennyg 14y ago
I don't know about that PR move you suggested. It's not very becoming of the market leader to publicly express that their own product that hasn't launched yet, and won't for 3 months, is buggy and incomplete - and to be patient with them while it gets fixed. I don't agree that calling it the best ever was such a great move, but that's what Apple does.
In a couple years, it won't matter what happened with the Maps launch. It'll be great by then. And nobody will be talking about it - just like 0 "average consumers" talk about antennagate.
- smegel 14y agoIt's not very becoming either that the CEO of such an image concious company has to make a such grovelling apology for such an embarrassing failure... I agree that in the long term Maps will be great and people will have forgotten the ill-planned launch - except perhaps Scott Forstall.
- bennyg 14y agoYou're right too, but that's a better move than a preemptive apology. They have the "report a problem" feature in the Maps app too, so it should help organically grow. I do miss Scott Forstall on stage, he was a good presenter.