Apple CEO: We 'Fell Short' On Maps
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If you teach a hamster to walk on two legs by setting up a system that delivers an electric shock every time it uses all four, what emotional condition do you think the hamster will be in on...
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Honestly, this is the worst maps App in the planet. You may not have any idea but the Maps for iPhone is soooooooooooooooooo bad. Last night I let my friend use her new iPhone 5 to navigate us to the restaurant mind you this is a very popular restaurant in LA so I figure no way this map app would screw this up its a popular location. Sure enough it got us sooooo lost it didnt even take us to a restaurant at the location it was navigating us to. To make it worse the location was only 2 miles away from her house. We ended up about 7 miles away. This is not the only failed attempt. Other friends also upgraded to iOS 6 on their 4s and every time it has gotten us lost. I cant remember a time where t...
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I mean when you use your navigation app on any phone it does it is designed to do get you to the location that you have no idea where it is. Right?
So after we arrived I took the map located the area and found out that it was only 2 miles away from her home. Only at that time did I realize the actually location. Does this mean I was consciously aware that I was driving out of the way? .-.
I was joking around. Ever hear the quote: Never piss off a women, especially when she's hungry or shopping.
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I can already hear the clamouring Google fanboys lining up and champing at the bit to take a crack at Apple over this. If a company whom you dislike is successful, and you continually verbally assault them for their success, and continually call those who buy those products "sheep", then what sense is there in doubling down and hitting them harder over their apology and admission of fault? Would it not be better to acknowledge their honesty, even if you think this is the only honest thing they've done, and applaud them for it even for just a minute?
If you teach a hamster to walk on two legs by setting up a system that delivers an electric shock every time it uses all four, what emotional condition
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MarryTheNight said:
You got a point but neither side is better than the other. iPhone users behave in exactly the same way, sometimes even worse.
Understood... and yes, I know because I have had even worse arguements with iPhone fanboys (who often engaged in personal attacks, cheap insults, and lying in order to get their way with as little provocation as simply seeing that I had posted something pro-Android in the Android forum) in other forums than I ever had here with even the likes of Bluecoyote. My point, however, is that if people just react to each other in the spirit of one-up-manship and combativness, then it doesn't matter who did what first to whom... an open-minded person comes along ...
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I personally think that Apple is doing this now because they are getting ready to take a swipe at Google directly, and that they feel that they are running out of time to get themselves off of dependence upon various Google services, which they must not be dependent upon in order to snap the trap shut properly (without being accused of an excessive amount of hipocrisy).
I wonder if heads are going to roll back at apple. Steve sure would of fired someone for not being an "A" player.
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This is a big sea change for Apple, yes.....but it is not good enough....
---" I personally think that Apple is doing this now because they are getting ready to take a swipe at Google directly, and that they feel that they are running out of time to get themselves off of dependence upon various Google services"---
Do you feel that this could be another bad move for Apple? Isn't proprietisation what kept Apple from seeing a large marketshare years ago?
Apple knows how to perform with its own system. But to segregate itself from a system made up of large collegiates within the internet world, seems like a huge middle finger that I don't think is beneficial at this time. I think they are reacting quite prematurely. The whole point of a smartphone, is to access the internet. Snubbing the pr...
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However, it is clear that even with the lacking features, Apple users did in fact, rely on Gmaps because of its accuracy. I don't blame Apple for cancelling the default option. But to eliminate a very well known and dominate option all together, is a questionable move.
John B.
I have explained this theory before elsewhere. Without going into the whole story, I will say that the evidence in the market right now suggests that this is very plausible. Google is a very strong internet-based revenue model (Adsense and whatnot...), and so Android is open-source, hence producing such a minimal revenue, so ...
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Oh... and once they get that accomplished, they can go right back to doing business with Google in terms of maps, search, email, etc...
They don't have to kill Google, and probably don't want to even try, but they certainly could get Google to drop Android if it serves their escape from a massive lawsuit and trouble... 99% of Google's revenue is from internet-based operations anyway, so dropping Android would not be a big deal for them in the big picture... but it would be big for another company (Sony) that could use a pre-fabbed OS to wall off for their own purposes, and for other companies (Apple, Microsoft) that would like more customers to feel obligated to buy a licensed copy of their competing OS products, rather than being...
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The people who write open source software do it in their spare time, it is not something that they are deeply committed to...they volunteer an hour here and there, and since they don't get paid for their work, they feel no real sense of urgency to get it right or to fix bugs when they are discovered...this is why the 'millions of eyes are looking at this code' argument for open source doesn't really work....
In addition, open source software can never offer real support, all they have are online forums.....and those are largely hit and mi...
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Revenues for Google's Android system is in the billions. And because of the Android collective and growing adoption, I don't feel Google is going to "just divest" the system regardless of lawsuits. Besides, I don't feel there is enough to sue over.
Look, Apple needs to do something here but eliminating Google maps this early is a mistake anyway we try to perceive it. Apple is losing ground in the App department because the Android play store has grown to almost equal the app store content. This has been one of Apple's profit generating outlets. Apple is also hardware and the number of adversaries for suc...
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I don't think there was any misunderstanding. To be honest, I found your theory intriguing and passionate on how you feel. It was enlightening. I meant no offense.
I usually find your posts intelligently executed and this one was no exception. I just don't agree on the outlook.
John B.
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