“In an attempt to benefit from Apple’s much-criticized iOS 6 Maps app, Google-owned Motorola Mobility has released a new advertisement mocking it with the phrase ‘iLost,'” Macgasm reports.
“In the ad, Apple’s iPhone 5 is shown next to a Droid Razr M, and the ad says Motorola’s device offers ‘the real world that’s fit for your hand,'” Macgasm reports. “Both phones show their respective map features searching for the address 315 E 15th in New York City, but the iPhone’s Maps app shows incorrect results.”
Macgasm reports, “To go along with this ad, Motorola wrote on their Google+ page: ‘Looking for 315 E 15th in Manhattan? Google Maps on DROID RAZR M will get you there & not #iLost in Brooklyn.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We’d rather be lost with an iPhone 5 than anywhere with a thick, heavy, ugly Motorola Mobility iPhone wannabe.
You know who’re really lost? The 4,000 employees that Google axed at their Motorola Mobility division last month.
Oh, BTW, here’s what Google’s Android looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
Best MDN take ever.
I can find the address no problem and the view on Apple’s map is far superior to that shown on the Moto device.
That looks incredible. Period.
@ thelonious mac
So in your little head you think that all news channels are wrong and there is no problem with apple’s crap maps app???
Thelonious, if I may?
Gupta, YES!
I’ve used Google maps extensively over the years and it isn’t 100% accurate, no map service will ever be. Why? First, streets and addresses change constantly. Things have to be remapped and updated, constantly.
Google has had a huge head start but look how Apple has given us an amazing map service application. I have yet to find a problem with Maps.
About the news channels, since when do “news channels” become experts on everything?
I’m happy Google is gone from my iPhone. Good riddens!
@ mees
Good luck with your apple’s crap maps app. LOL 🙂
Gupta,
I have used Maps and it works flawlessly. If there are a few glitches (to be expected in a version 1 product), so what? Why would you call it crappy? Apple has a rep whereby it will update it quickly to resolve those problems.
Try not to be so insulting, it diminishes your argument while making you look like a disgruntled retard.
@ buster
Yes, apple’s maps app is a crap. 🙂
Ummmmm nope Maps app has worked well for me so far … Only crap here are folks hating on apple.
Weird: I put in:
315 e 15th st NY
and got exactly the #iLost image. I’ll review your video again to see if you and I did something differently. I was actually expecting the autosearch to figure this out on its own given the attention drawn to this particular address!
It was the zip code that got you there. I had the street address exactly as yours and was still going to Marlborough. I could read all of the zip code so I punted and tried 10001. Maps asked me which I meant, the Marlborough one (zip 11226-4511) or the one on E 15th St. (zip 10003)
So to all those who are saying Apple’s iOS 6 Maps app is wonky, I can see a clear example of that here!
@ MDN (Mad Dogs News)
Since 2007 you guys were getting fucked by google’s map, and never said anything bad, but now apple introduced its own “crap maps app” and you totally hate google.
Keep one thing in your dirty heads that you still have half of Samsung in your hands. 😉
Awe. Poor Gupta is lost. He is stuck in the wrong site and his droid won’t navigate to other sites. Would someone let his mother know.
It probably won’t do any good. I think she is afraid to go into her own basement.
As of iPhone 5 this statement is and has been proven wrong. There are absolutely NO Samsung LABLED chips inside. Sure there is speculation that the processor was MANUFACTURED by Samsung, but as of yet there is NO evidence that this is true. For all anyone knows, it may have been manufactured be TSMC foundries. Don’t forget, Apple DESIGNS the chip IN-HOUSE, someone else MANUFACTURES it. So if that’s the case, what do you have to say now?
Source: http://macsurfer.com/redir.php?u=725506
@ jeff
I’m talking about other parts, NOT the processor.
You did NOT say anything about apple’s new crap maps apps. LOL
😉
On the one hand, this ad is completely (and unnecessarily)disingenuous by placing the Google Maps satellite view alongside the iOS Maps standard view. As if iOS Maps didn’t have a satellite view.
On the other hand, Apple should fix the error highlighted by the ad.
Exactly what I was gonna say!
lol @ Motorola pretending Google Maps doesn’t have erroneous data of its own.
I predict this ad will kind of backfire.
Oh yes. There’s desperation in the air.
Enjoy your smugness while you may Google. You KNOW what’s occurring, don’t you. YOU burned the bridges. YOU ripped off the IP. Watch for circling vultures. They can smell necrotic flesh from miles away. 😈
It is stupid to buy a crappy product just because it is “better” than other in just one task. But unfortunately, that’s the android market, people who buy a crappy plastic phone full of bugs just because their camera has more Mpixels or their map application is a little bit better than the one in the other’s phone, even if that is just for a very short moment because Apple will fix this soon or they will approve Google maps APP in the APP store then their only advantage will disappear.
By the way, Android cameras may have more Mega Pixels, that doesn’t make them a better camera per se.
I keyed in the address on the iPhone4 with iOS6 maps and it finds the correct location!! Try it please and post your results.
The trick is to add the ‘Manhattan’ Looking for 315 E 15th in Manhattan
if you enter new york city instead of Manhattan then you get different results….hhmmm (more database tweaks coming?)
I just entered the proper zip code.
10003
Upon quick review: 315 East 15th Street NY NY isn’t actually an address. the odd’s on 15th at this location are taken up by Stuyvesant Square. Its a NYC Park…which really don’t have address’s as they do Cross Street Address’s.
Google does the better job of finding around the location the user intends though.
Just tried it, and totally true.
And just for reference, i live (and currently searching) in manhattan and it was still going to Brooklyn address. I also tried NYC and NY NY as the city in search but still no luck.
Also, for traffic, it didn’t show the traffic by the UN today which is always a complete mess with the General Assembly occurring. 1st ave is closed to the public but iOS didn’t pick up on it. Maybe because cars weren’t sitting on first ave not moving?
It’s a lot cleaner look than Google Maps and I’m sure it’ll catch up in functionality but this is iOS Maps Beta.
let me guess – 315 E 15th Street is NOT a Manhattan address.
Hey MOTO – nice fantasy address dorks.
This is the problem with NYC. Manhattan is not the only borough NYC. The snooty limo-liberals of google believes NYC is Manhattan. What if you wanted 15th st. In another borough.
typically residents of the outer boroughs call manhattan “the city” so when you type in NYC it makes sense to for a search engine to search manhattan first and then the outer boroughs.
315 East 15th STreet, New York, NY = Manhattan
315 East 15th Street, Brooklyn, NY = Brooklyn
315 East 15th Street, Far Rockaway, NY = Queens
Different boros have different ways of doing the addresses… brooklyn acts like (and used to be) its own city. Queens addresses are usually denoted by the section/neighborhood. New York, NY would always be assumed to be Manhattan if no ZIP was designated.
the problem here is that 315 E 15 st does not exist – it’s stuyvesant park and there is no such street address. Blatantly dishonest ad will blow up in Google/Motos face wasting our time finding glitches for non-existent street addresses. This add will be pulled from the air and goog/moto is going to have egg all over its face
Haha, did they have to use “Screen Images Simulated” for the Motorola handset?
I’ve been using the new map app since it come out and it has given me good directions every time. I listen to music off my iPhone through Bluetooth and the turn by turn directions come through loud and clear. Better then the DVD based system in my Accura
Put that address shown on the Moto phone into the US Postal Service zip code finder and it does not exist. Look at the Apple result and you can see that the street returned obviously used to be called 15 St or should be – look at the numbering gap in the map between 9th and 16th. For the app to guess that is actually darn impressive!
I had to drive to small town Alberta, CA today for work and interestingly enough, both apples iOS6 maps and maps.google.ca gave me the wrong directions to the business I was trying to find.
Looks like neither one wins that round.
But in the city apple maps hasn’t been wrong yet.
Noting the above info that the odd numbers do not exist for that block, I keyed in 314 E 15th and got what appears to be the correct address.
Helps to use addresses that exist, I suppose.
Out of the Android market share, Motorola’s stadings appear to be in the back of the pack of device manufacturers with even Apple besting them also. Maybe Apple can run an ad touting such with the tagline, ‘iLost, Motorola, Apple couldn’t agree more!
I think we know who’ll laugh last…
year = 365 days
100 days = Apple rumors (iHaters vs. iLovers)
100 days = Bashing Apple (iHaters attacking vs. iLovers defending)
100 days = Copycats showing your Apple copies (Analysts and your stupid articles… why is better, why is not… and all the patent wars)
65 days = Real news, Apple events, Real produts/services and Good sales/stocks/lines…
@ apple is always NOT right
65 days = real news, events, real services “For Example” apple’s crap maps app. 🙂
Gotta say that pic shows a modern state of the art smart phone next to what looks like an ancient brick. Probably helps Apple as much as hinders it I suspect.
Did anyone notice how ‘yesterday’ the Moto product looked like? Reminiscent of a ‘brick’!
The real problem is that you unimaginative Yanks named all your streets and avenues the same in every city 😉
It’s a big country. Sea to shining sea.
Google Maps is not perfect. It took Google 1 year and 9 months (not to mention numerous phone calls and e-mails) to fix a business location. During that time people who searched for our Indianapolis indiana Jewelry Store (by store name or address) were being routed to Louisville KY.
Did you threaten to move and bill Google?
I say, let’s start a FB or Twitter page with all Google Maps screw ups. That will shut them up.
Nix, that will only direct Google to locations that need fixing. We’d be helping, for free.
Apple’s Maps will rapidly improve with use through crowd sourcing.
A PR mess that could have been prevented with more thorough testing. Same with using anodized coloring especially black on a consumer product that would take so much abuse. Especially black with sharp corners. Then there is the tiny but long screen. A tiny screen just to make calls is fine. To check your email too, but these gadgets can do so much more now. The tiny screens are torturous but for basic tasks..
Alas there is alaways next years model. If Apple hasn’t got the hint that large phones are not a fad by that time, there will be no Steve Jobs to save it this time around.
How prophetic and what a great slogan for Motorola and Google — “iLost”.
I didn’t realize that Google maps are so inaccurate that Motorola had to build a u-turn button right onto the phone (lower left).
Wow. Just wow.