What complainers. Use maps.google.com. What is wrong with that? The Apple maps are great. Now all of you idiots just STFU and go home. Sit down to your PC and Galaxy SIII, pretend to have a Mac and iPhone and be disappointed in the new shit.

I agree with the first part. maps.google.com works very well in the interim especially for transit directions, however, some people are still upset about Street View being unavailable, although, I am not among that group. I never really used Street View on my iPhone anyway.

I'm almost completely over the removal of Google Maps from iOS, to be honest.

I used iOS Maps quite a bit today and it performed well. It did the job.

There's so much to like in iOS, that I almost don't miss Google Maps at all.

With all the indignant self-righteous "outrage", I've used Apple maps maybe 100 times so far to find shit, and not once has it let le down. But hey, clearly the product is an "unmitigated disaster" and "complete garbage" because it does not have 100% of the data that Google has, who has been building up their maps for the past 10+ years and crowd-sourcing the data from hundreds of millions of people. People mindlessly attacking Apple's new maps are missing the forest for the trees. Apple will be a maps juggernaut, at the level of Google, within the next year to 18 months. I predict they will release their own maps app for OSX even, and have everything between them synced to the cloud. All Apple would have done if they delayed the launch is further strengthened Google's position with tens of millions of new users, while weakening their own future prospects. 

I have been using a free app called streetviewer to utilize google streetview. That, coupled with a maps.google.com shortcut on my home screen, has got me wondering what the hell the big deal is about. Apple maps has worked flawlessly for me thus far. I travel a good bit, so I never rely on one map source regardless.

Plenty. It does not integrate with any of the other native apps (Calendar. Address Book, Reminders), you can not save pins on your phone, you can not add locations directly to contacts, you have to enable Location Services for Safari, your current position updates are extremely delayed since they are done remotely rather than locally and don't take advantage of the accelerometer, magnetometer, and gyroscope on top of being a lot more susceptible to network signal issues than the native app. Google Maps on the web is only useful for those who don't need it.


Just because it works for you doesn't mean it works for everyone, or even for anyone else, so your generalization from your personal experience is completely wrong. As to why Apple's service sucks doesn't really matter, as a customer I am not supposed to care; they ditched a service that worked well for one that is clearly subpar, that's all that matters to me. Fortunately I didn't miss the downgrade window, so I still have proper maps.

Never mind.

 

 

How useful.  Apple will be...

What about now?

What about the quality of hte product now.  "Just you wait, it will be grand" 

 

Thats the same garbage people said about WP7

 

Apple maps is ok, unless you are actually looking for something.  But hey, dont worry about the baked in apps, why not go to the webpage maps.google.com  that will make everything better.  Nothing says "Easy to use and full of features you use everyday" like using a webpage to replace the half-baked in-built apps

 

I have used it each time I went out over the weekend.  Each time, it could not find the business that I was looking for, it even struggled to find the addresses for some things.  Once I got it pointed in the right direction, the turn by turn ran nicely..  even if it did pick weird routes, it rapidly recalculated once I went my own way.  The weird parts of hte new app is that some of the little things taht apple included in the last maps app (the front end, not googles input) have dissapeared - You used to  beable to click to the contacts list and grab an address from a contactee, but that seems to have gone.

Vaelian I agree with you 100% on your reply.

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