As someone who likes Apple and its platform(s) and has invested heavily in them, I'd like to believe that, but something tells me it won't. I'm quoting John Si

As someone who likes Apple and its platform(s) and has invested heavily in them, I'd like to believe that, but something tells me it won't. I'm quoting John Siracusa, because I think what he said makes a lot of sense: Google does brute force (i.e., driving cars all over the world and having thousands of real people auditing the maps data), but Apple wants to get its data using "clever" algorithms. Clever algorithms is what caused [1], and countless other issues. What I said above is debatable, but the next statement is (I think) absolutely non-negotiable: Until we see Apple Maps (or one of its partners') cars driving around the world (the whole world, mind you - not just US and EU), its data will be demonstrably worse than Google's. It might be good and usable, but still will be worse than Google's :) [1]: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/12/11/apple-fixes-australian-map-error-that-caused-police-warning-issue-traced-to-official-gazetteer/ http://www.macrumors.com/2012/12/11/apple-fixes-australian-m...