“Maybe I’m a bit too excited, but I toggle between Apple’s Maps application and Google Maps multiple times a day, seven days a week. So, I notice even small changes,” Rocco Pendola writes for TheStreet.
MacDailyNews Take: ‘Tis not surprising that Rocco’s frequently lost.
“When Apple Maps came out, it was horrible. Tim Cook should have never released it in its original condition. Steve Jobs would have been furious,” Pendola writes. “At least slap a ‘beta’ next to its name, like Apple did with Siri.”
MacDailyNews Take: “Beta.” As we wrote a year ago.
“But, today, and presumably after the iOS 7 update, Apple Maps has come into its own,” Pendola writes. “Despite the lingering absence of transit directions (at last check, Apple still suggests Google Maps and other ‘routing’ apps), I now prefer to Apple over Google… When using a cellular connection, Google Maps has been placing me a block — sometimes more — from where I actually am. Apple Maps continues to get more precise, which matters when you’re not dealing with a perfect grid-like network of streets and avenues.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Amazingly, Rocco wrote something that’s not only true, but only knocks Tim Cook for not being Steve Jobs as an aside rather than as the main theme of the article. Miracles do happen!
Fanboi bait. Crapple Maps is just wrapped in pastels, but it is still excrement.
Oh really MDN….http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24246646
I drive all over town everyday and apple maps is better in ios7 but its still wrong. The thing i like most about the google maps app and waze is that if there is an error i can shake the phone tell it there is an error and i can tell it what the error is IE wrong street (cir instead of ct or st instead of dr) And then i can tell it that this is the wrong block or whatever and usually within a week or so its updated.
Sometimes longer but on average i like that. However Apple maps is great too and it is more precise with where i am when i get to an area. Plus with apple maps i can turn the voice off if i dont need it to listen to my podcasts. And the google voice is to loud and i find no way to adjust it.
Still pretty dreadful in UK. Making corrections has proved a complete waste of time. Certainly one of the worst things from Apple in my experience.
Better than Google maps? With no street view and no public transit directions? I think not. And please, MDN, enough with the unceasing fanboi rhetoric on this subject. Apple screwed the pooch (and their customers) bad on this one and two years later they have still not restored the functionality that the so stupidly removed. If MDN really cared about Apple, instead of posting all these bogus stories about how great Apple maps are they would be holding Apple’s feet to the fire until they corrected what has to be one of their biggest mistakes. Because I rely on street view and public transit directions for my livelihood, they will have to pry my iOS 5 from my COLD DEAD HANDS.
You are too hard on Rocco. I read his articles on The Street from time to time and they are very good. At least the ones I have read. He isn’t a stock picker as I understand it but a commentator. I like his work. Search for the article about Tiger Woods he wrote some time ago. It was a pleasant read.
Why do you diehard Apple peeps think that once apple has finally improved on something then all bets are off for competitors? Like google maps is going to tell their people.. “Well Apple improved their map software we’d better get our resumes updated”..
All we have here is crooks and/or AAPL haters trying to rehash yesterdays mistakes as reoccurring. None of it is true; and neither is the motion sickness B.S.
It’s sickening to see people get paid for writing such crap. It’s more sickening to see people buy into it; especially when they don’t even own an AAPL device and just want to throw fuel on a press ignited fire; no doubt that they were paid to write by GOOG.
Just looking at GOOG Finance and seeing what they place as relevant versus latest news shows their bias campaign.
Go to Yahoo finance for a more objective list of stories and their relevance. There will still be lies; but they don’t place them in an order of relevance; as lies are not relevant at all.
How does coordinate information from the same phone, the same GPS antenna place you a block or two off just because you use different software that read the same information?!!! You probably have Steve Jobs altar at home.
BS…. Apple maps still suck!
Well, I’ve been waiting for an update since the first release but after iOS7 I’m still very disappointed. The satellite image over my house shows nothing but clouds, and that’s the way it looks at many locations.
Apple maps doesn’t have the data points that Google has. Google maps…is far superior when I am trying to locate some obscure place. 100% of the time, I can’t find it on apple maps.
I do like the flyover. That’s the form factor… But function, not close.
Google maps just gets it right.
Funny all the Apple fanboys who actually think Apple maps is anywhere near as good. Typical fanboys.
Without street view, my parents will never buy another Apple product. I have also switched to Android, and actually like it a LOT more than ios.
As far as labeling towns goes (which I care about a lot), Google wins hands down. Apple doesn’t consider a town to exist unless it has its own post office. Do you realize how many real towns don’t have post offices? Mine doesn’t and I’m sick of tired of Apple saying I’m in a town I’m not in–for weather and everything! Not only does my town not exist on the map service, but the Maps gets my post office wrong too! Incredibly terrible.
Can only drop 1 pin in Apple maps… Uhhhh okayyy…..
I’ll just type out full addresses every time I want directions. Of course I want to do that