Comments on: Former Apple employee: We’ve passed peak Apple and it’s all downhill from here

By: TinkyWinky

TinkyWinky — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:40:49 +0000

I have iOS6 on my Ipad and Apple Maps still shows dublin zoo in the middle of the city and not in the Pheonix Park where it actually resides. This is months after the release of Apple Maps. Dublin zoo is the most visited tourist location in Dublin and the fact this obvious mistake hasn’t been fixed looks to me like Apple are not prioritising Maps. There is no way that Apple can make its map product as good as Google Maps without spending an absolute fortune on it. Apple are great, I love their design, their products are absolutely beautiful (particularly the new iMac- what a stunner ). Dont be surprised if Maps is cancelled soon

By: MBBM

MBBM — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:26:10 +0000

Great points. People foolishly act as if EVERY product has to be astounding and revolutionary. As though each year, in addition to unimaginable upgrades to current devices, should bring a completely unheard of product that will change the world. Apple is the only one which doesn’t get away with not living up to this expectation. I wonder why people don’t treat Ford the same way for taking so long to provide features that Mercedes and BMW have had for a long time. A vast majority of people really are just ignorant to the difficulty of product development and managing a business. We live in a “snap your fingers and magic happens” kind of world.

By: TheTruth

TheTruth — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:51:23 +0000

Listen, I LOVE Apple products. I have four iPhones to Macs and three iPads in my home. Don’t have an android or PC anything. I’m sorry to say it, I can’t speak for the US because I don’t live there, but in Canada Maps is absolutely unusable. I love the interface but it just gives you wrong directions! There is no way Steve jobs would ever let this app out of the gate, and if for some reason has IQ dropped by 70 points he would at the very least have put beta on it. Tim Cook dropped the ball on this one. It’s very un-Apple to release something this bad.

By: japanscott

japanscott — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 04:06:20 +0000

maybe the headline should read “DISGRUNTLED Former Apple employee”.

By: Mr. Peabody

Mr. Peabody — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 03:14:54 +0000

This is so bogus. I suppose the deification of Jobs was somewhat inevitable, but it just goes to ridicules proportions. Maps was unfortunate, but I consider that fairly medium to small compared to the Apple failures that finally led to what is now a very decent cloud service – MobileMe and whatever it’s precursor was – major failures under SJ’s watch. And now I’m supposed to believe that Maps is going to single handedly bring down Apple?! Get real. This kind of naysaying really makes me question the authenticity of the source of this article in the first place. Either he’s ten years old or just plain lying.

Jeepers.

By: 3monkies

3monkies — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:50:41 +0000

By: R Eunson

R Eunson — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:34:33 +0000

Yeah it ain’t frackin rocket science why the iPad 4 was released.

The 10″ Retina iPad is the flagship iPad.
It had to have the lightning connector like the other current idevices.
The processor needed to be upgraded because they couldn’t have the flagship iPad being outperformed by the iPhone 5.
They also needed to provide better “global” LTE support.

The reasons are dead simple.

I also don’t get the disgruntled buyers of the iPad 3.
Their device will be supported with easy iOS upgrades for years to come. Yet they still complain.
Samsung on the other hand releases new devices every 2 weeks. It will probably ship with an outdated OS and will likely never be updated. (Unless you root it)
Nobody bats an eyelid at this complete lack of support and they carry on like Samsung are the good guys and cash do no wrong.

I just don’t get it.

By: George

George — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:13:00 +0000

By: ivid

ivid — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:53:38 +0000

The worst sign: abandoning support of original iPad and the 15 million customers who bought it. Completely inexcusable and angering as hell. How am I ever to trust buying anything Apple again after that slap in the face ?
FCOL, iPad 1 was still the current gen iPad a mere 20 months ago.
Every early adopter should be furious, if not they’re drunk on the koolaid..

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:54:08 +0000

‘MacDailyNews Take: Every single one of our experience with Apple’s Maps have been superior to Google’s Maps.’

You should try Apple’s Maps here in the UK. Loads of missing or incorrectly located places they even show local restaurants which have closed 8+ years ago. I’ve tried to send Apple local corrections but none of them have been taken up (it’s been 2 months and counting). Compare that to Google Maps on a Nexus 7, everything local appears correct and complete, together with restaurant information reviews and even pictures. Apple’s maps information is totally embarrassing in comparison.

By: KRONOS

KRONOS — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:14:33 +0000

Nice try…

By: GizmoDan

GizmoDan — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:05:26 +0000

So his example of a creative slowdown is iPads refreshing at 6 month intervals?

How fast does he THINK they should refresh?

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:57:56 +0000

Hey Dan, I joined Apple when Sculley was CEO and left after Tim Cook took the reigns (not related!). I think you’ve been smoking too much Google Goodness. I know a fellow who was Steve Job’s personal assistant for several years and he tells me even he didn’t get to know Steve “really well”– you might have worked with him, even a lot, but you didn’t get to know such a private man “really well.”
Your logic appears to have been what got you accepted to Google: On the one had you assert the iPad 4th generation is no big deal versus the iPad 3rd generation and then you assert that iPad 3 owners are miffed at the quick product cycle.
Had you been around when the iPod was introduced, you would not consider the iPod one of Steve’s finest products: 5GB, $499, no support for Windows users. Later, when iTunes was released for Windows, the iPod started its meteoric climb and took everyone at Apple by surprise. So I would say that you have given plenty of evidence that you don’t know what you’re talking about, and that which you should know about you’re either pursuing an agenda or you’ve charitably forgotten most of the real history.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:51:03 +0000

Apple is treating everybody like shit, just like QuarkXpress used to do. We all know what happened to Quark. Sorry, but Apple has surely peaked, it is really downhill from now. Even americans will gradually have to realize this.

By: iSundanceTaos

iSundanceTaos — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:58:40 +0000

Badmouth or spread negative news about your former employer always a really bad idea. I guess that “Mr. Stupid” is bitter about Apple for whatever reason.

By: trondude

trondude — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:47:59 +0000

Sounds like he wishes he still worked there. A spoiled little android brat.

By: HD Boy

HD Boy — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:42:28 +0000

Also, the new iPad 4 counters new tablets from Google and Microsoft.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:42:09 +0000

Did you learn that at school today?

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:39:23 +0000

-101

By: TheConfuzed1

TheConfuzed1 — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:36:10 +0000

Yeah, this guy has special insight because he worked for Apple in the late nineties…

By: iAppleTennisU:-)

iAppleTennisU:-) — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:30:56 +0000

This legacy dude is per-Mac OS and pre- iOS

You are way too early to call the peak!!! Watch the following years to come how Apple will not miss a beat on product refresh and “new” products!

AAPL stock is a buy BUY now as it will be $1100 by 2015

By: DNA

DNA — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:24:56 +0000

Yes, and in related news, the Foxconn chairman says company is falling short of demand for the iPhone 5….

By: janekg

janekg — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:21:41 +0000

You’re entitled to your biased conjecture Dan. Have a good day.

By: John C. Randolph

John C. Randolph — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:20:21 +0000

Never heard of Dan Crow, but there were quite a lot of Apple employees who were shown the door in the year after Steve returned. Most of them are rather bitter.

-jcr

By: midwestmac

midwestmac — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:11:59 +0000

Ask yourself: How much insight do you have about a place you worked at 13 years ago?

None.

By: TheMacAdvocate

TheMacAdvocate — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:11:12 +0000

Piece should have been called “Hired by Gil Amelio”. That tells you everything you need to know right there.

I’m personally wondering when the tech press will pass its peak claiming Apple’s past its peak. I’m sure never.

By: botvinnik

botvinnik — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:03:03 +0000

lol SEC? …let’s get the fox to defend the henhouse.

By: HUYA™

HUYA™ — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:01:54 +0000

Apple Maps saved my ass last week. I used Google Maps on my iMac to find my destination in a nearby city, and when I got there I was totally lost, I looked it up in Apple Maps on my iPhone 4S and found that I was on the wrong side of the river, 20 minutes west of my intented destination! I used turn-by-turn and got there on time. Without my iPhone I don’t think I would have found the location let alone make it to my appointment on time… so I guess experiences vary.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:01:24 +0000

And you suck Ballmer’s left nut. It’s a bit sweaty I bet.

Going back to Windows anytime soon? See ya! Asshole!

By: macassarus

macassarus — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:00:57 +0000

I agree. I have had a couple of goofs. But, nothing serious and nothing within the past week. I love the 3D effect and the turn-by-turn directions. Has saved me a ton of time and I did not have to shell out cash for a turn-by-turn app. I do not miss the old verison of Maps or Google Maps at all. The current situation and the future with Maps is very bright.

By: stucktrader

stucktrader — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:54:17 +0000

correction… 70% of all phones….

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:50:33 +0000

Apple is hardly declining like Blackberry, Hewlett-Packard, or even Microsoft.

By: HUYA™

HUYA™ — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:50:22 +0000

Blah, blah, blah…

Sour grapes?

By: stucktrader

stucktrader — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:49:54 +0000

this guy discredited himself by saying he worked for Google… Apparently after Apple… he has no idea what is really going on right now anyway…

if Eric the mole wasn’t a board member… there would be no question… the iPhone would be 70% of all smartphones (outside of China/India)…

By: HUYA™

HUYA™ — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:41:55 +0000

+100!

By: bibleguys

bibleguys — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:34:25 +0000

Umm… that kind of thinking is what got Obama re-elected

By: Agent Provocateur

Agent Provocateur — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:25:17 +0000

Apple Maps is shit as of yesterday. Had to find my way to a FedEx Office shop in the near downtown of a large city, so I decided to see if Apple Maps had improved since my precious less than stellar experience with it.

1- The routing is wrong- not the most efficient route- something that comes from crowdsourcing the database. This could have been fixed with a larger public beta.
2- The navigation was off by more than a little once I got away from the wide open spaces of the freeway. Attribute it to whatever, but it wasn’t a lack of GPS signal. Taking the same route out with a different app showed no problem.
3- Database information regarding traffic signaling directed me to a stop sign fronting a busy 8 lane street instead of a 4 way traffic light equipped intersection 2 streets further on the earlier route. Otherwise, it’s not aware of traffic lights vs signals when considering routing in busy and congested areas.

Apple positions itself as a premium product and this does not make the grade. One can easily get a 99₵ Fandroid that will kick it’s ass on navigation. This should not be so.

By: peterblood71

peterblood71 — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:24:14 +0000

And Maps spelled backwards is Spam.

By: althegeo

althegeo — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:22:23 +0000

I wonder why both Apple and Google fired him?

I wonder why the only job he can get in Tech is writing about tech?

Loser.

By: Raymond

Raymond — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:20:43 +0000

And the anntengate too

By: Zeke

Zeke — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:00:24 +0000

Couldn’t have said it better.

By: JB Tipton

JB Tipton — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:59:40 +0000

Sad but true. Jerks like Forstall & Browett put in charge, the loss of Save As, the dumbing down of FCP, the dumbing down of laptops by the elimination of optical drives and analog audio inputs, 10.7 Lion (aka “Vista for Macs”), it all adds up to a company that has lost it’s way. Apple appears to be following the trajectory of HP who used to make world class test equipment and is now just another money grubbing corporate joke.

By: 3l3c7ro

3l3c7ro — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:58:33 +0000

Although everybody has got one, Rorschach finds it necessary to show his by posting this type of ‘opinion’ with potty mouth to go.

By: Jd

Jd — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:57:49 +0000

Apple should have offered free adaptors for iPad 3 users

By: N8nNC

N8nNC — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:53:43 +0000

He’s just cashing in on his five minutes of fame. All anecdotes suggest that Jobs had Apple thinking 5-10 years ahead to disrupt themselves. I expect they have stuck with that.

By: Armando

Armando — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:48:35 +0000

MacDailyNews Take: +1

By: danilko1

danilko1 — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:46:32 +0000

Yeah you wish Siri could get it going. All you want is an iPhone and a whole in the pocket.

By: Karl Snow

Karl Snow — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:43:26 +0000

What a stupid article. Sorry, a little grumpy after staying up all night following the elections in USA (from Europe).

But, “….I think in hindsight, we will see that Apple’s peak of creativity, innovation and leadership was early 2012.”
But, but, BUT. Where the hell does this guy come from? …… the future? … must be an alien or at least an (an)droid of some sort.

By: Truth

Truth — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:41:06 +0000

“Former employees are always disgruntled” – Not true at all.

As an example of my point: Tony Fadell

He not only came up with an innovative product outside of Apple, Apple sells his product in their stores.

By: silverhawk1

silverhawk1 — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:40:51 +0000

The markets sure are taking it in the shorts. I though WS loved the President.