Oops – new a better DSM!
Based upon all of the feedback that is out there, I will NOT be updating my iPhone to iOS 6 until I hear that Google Maps is released as an application that I can download.
What’s interesting to me is that mapping and location information is now a critical part of the any mobile device release. Get that wrong, and you get hammered. Check out the title of this very good article:
“A flawed cornerstone app ships despite developer warnings, signaling that perhaps pride is prized over quality at Apple”.
Nice that maps are recognized as cornerstone apps now …
- Here’s a link to the article (thanks to Besty Barker for passing along)
- Link to iOS map failures (this should fun).
Apple has now apologized for their maps. http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-apple-tim-cook-apology-20120928,0,4208097.story
These are good articles. I don’t love the red chick-lets for traffic either; much harder to see than the green, orange and red you get with Google Maps traffic. Also, our building (Hall of Records) mislabeled as the Los Angeles Superior Court (I put in a ‘Report a Problem’ the day this came out; still not fixed).
I want my Google Maps back!