Lol

So apple struggles out of the gate with their map app which shows obvious potential for being the best app for maps once they fix a few things.

Googles already copying in their own misguided way (a 45 degree bitmap is still a bitmap).

And then to try to lambast all of apples Internet services because of this? Laughably reaching. Trying a bit too hard.

Mobile me had launch trouble because of how ambitious it was and quickly became known for being awesome. Not a negative.

Ping sims never was. And that's ok. Apple is just used to making everything they do perfect and desirable. So when ping turned out to not be all that wanted, they shuttered it. Much like google with its many experiments. And it's not like apple killed an ecosystem. Zune anyone? "plays4sure" yeah right...

In fact, from MobileMe to iTunes, to iCloud, apple seems to "get" Internet services like few companies do.

Apples headed in the right direction with maps. They'll have it in top form inside a year. That's saying a lot considering googles head start.

Here's hoping apple goes into the search business as well.

So far using Maps in my area seems to be ok when I looked for things. It pinned them correctly. But we'll see I suppose the more I use to see how it performs. It can only go up from here with future updates. 

Woah! Apple has been in the internet services space longer than most players out there today, going as far back as the free iTools.

Microsoft had Hotmail which was basically email and IM, Apple had the email, personal web pages, was in the cloud (iDisk) long before many others.

Sure, they have had a couple of hiccups along the way with the launch of MobileMe and now the new Maps perhaps should have been left to bake in the oven a little longer (although, as this website has been pointing out the issues with Maps have been exaggerated, to say the least, and in some cases fabricated).

None of this justifies any conclusion that Apple either is not good at or not dedicated to Internet services.

As to the comments about Maps on the iPhone, I recall reading from the Apple/Samsung litigation that iPhone%u2019s design was completely overhauled only months before it was unveiled. But even so, the iPhone was only unveiled because of all the regulatory approvals it had to go through before launch, which would have outed the device months before Apple had planned to launch it. So, in fact, it is a bit misleading to call Maps on the iPhone an %u201Cafterthought%u201D just because work may have begun only a few weeks before it was unveiled.

Apple has a reputation for excellence, and deservedly so. It seems people have come to expect a lot from Apple and then magnify the mishaps when, as Tim Cook acknowledged in his open letter, Apple has not met its own exacting standards.

Sorry, edited this in Pages before pasting into the web form; second last paragraph should read:

As to the comments about Maps on the iPhone, I recall reading from the Apple/Samsung litigation that iPhone's design was completely overhauled only months before it was unveiled. But even so, the iPhone was only unveiled because of all the regulatory approvals it had to go through before launch, which would have outed the device months before Apple had planned to launch it. So, in fact, it is a bit misleading to call Maps on the iPhone an "afterthought" just because work may have begun only a few weeks before it was unveiled.

Am I the only one who thinks the NYT's version of journalism consists of kicking a man when he's down. I have to roll my eyes with each new "unnamed source"

Seems like nowadays we can rely on NYT to have a dig at Apple at every unfortunate incidents.

Hey New York Times,

WHO OWN'S THE LARGEST ONLINE MUSIC STORE THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN?

Bunch of f**king bozo's.

I call it FUD.

J.