Follows apology from CEO Tim Cook a week ago.
A week after Apple CEO Tim Cook released an open letter pertaining to the firm's maps app, users are already starting to see improvements.
The app's 3D component, in particular, has shown signs of renovation. Landmarks including the Statue of Liberty, as well as buildings that have been missing from the flyover mode, are now present on the app.
A “List of cities with 3D mapping” thread on MacRumors' forums has seen users reporting seeing several new buildings and other 3D images within the maps app in locations such as London, New York City and Los Angeles.
Before Cook's apology, Apple were actively hiring software engineers (which were ex-Google employees) in order to help refine the overall experience in iOS maps.
The problem is they had something that worked perfectly fine. What people are complaining about is the releasing of an unfinished project. People were pretty much used as beta testers on what was supposed to be a "new feature" in iOS6.
This kind-of software improves with use. Just give it time.
apple apologetics at its finest
The problem is they had something that worked perfectly fine. What people are complaining about is the releasing of an unfinished project. People were pretty much used as beta testers on what was supposed to be a "new feature" in iOS6.
Umm, Microsoft has been doing this since Windows 95. Adobe and Oracle (Java) have been for a few years now, and apparently Apple has just caught on.
No, it isn't right.
But the simple truth at the end of the day is that its so much cheaper to fire your entire testing department and just patch bugs as your users report them.
After they completely abandon the broad computer hardware benchmarking that made them famous... Oh wait that already happened. Welcome to Tom's Cellphone, Est. 2010
I've been using it for a few weeks with an iPhone 4, and as of Saturday a 5, and have not noticed any problems in the Green Bay, WI area.
But I suppose not seeing a problem with something Apple made makes me a fanboy.
Point is it shouldn't have barely worked. It looks like Apple didn't even Alpha test it. It basically was the "It compiles so we'll release it" type of software. Given Apples large software development base this should have been much more refined before release.
Remember Apple's thing has always been polished, smooth, well functioning software.
Clearly this wasn't.
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Actually, They still had a year or so left on their contract with Google maps, Apple themselves cut it prematurely.
Do you have an iOS device by which to compare, or are you reading a couple of over-blown internet articles and making your own assertions? The one percent are the ones complaining, and even then the majority of what I've read has been trivial things, like showing a monument two hundred feet south-west of where it actually is - the usability of the app hasn't suffered for many, and if for some reason it had for you, you had plenty of options.
Apple doing this is akin to Microsoft no longer bundling Java with it's Operating Systems. And to be honest, from a business case, what sounds better: avoiding paying royalties on each and every of the tens of millions of the new product you're about to launch, or having a couple stories mock a stupid app you put out, knowing full well that it's not that big of a deal?
Plenty users, myself included, have had absolutely zero problems, and as some have pointed out if anything the maps load faster, because of the way they are rendered. If having a hiccup in an app makes you dislike a company or it's products THAT much, even when alternatives are offered, then hey, return your $600 rare smartphone. Somebody else will buy it.
BRB need to go be an Apple fanboy again. Because that's what I am, for having the Maps app work correctly, right?