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Is Apple Maps really completely terrible? OR Does it have a few problems that, when compared with all the progress Google has made in that arena, makes its pe
by frogpelt 14y ago
Is Apple Maps really completely terrible?
OR
Does it have a few problems that, when compared with all the progress Google has made in that arena, makes its performance untenable?
I say this because I have used Apple Maps to navigate the rural southeastern U.S. with absolutely no problems. I even had my dedicated GPS to make sure Apple Maps wasn't leading me astray.
- emehrkay 14y agoMy theory is that people want it to be worse than it actually is. I've put ~1000 miles on it via turn-by-turn and I like it a lot better than the old maps app. What I dont get is that people were/are willing to wait for google to get it together with the "next release," and crucify apple for doing the exact same. Either way, we win because apple removing google maps from ios forced google to work hard on providing a good app and google's app will force apple to polish up their maps.
- smackfu 14y agoI have maybe 75% success in having a search term find the right place in Apple Maps. In Google Maps, it was more like 99%. This sounds pretty close, but every single one of those 25% that failed, I had to go look up the address on Google and cut and paste it into Apple Maps. I do not enjoy doing that. I've also had it direct me to locations that did not exist (but were in Yelp). But since no one uses Yelp to review bank branches, that data has never really been checked before.