I ordered the iPhone 5 and currently have the 4. I tried the new maps. My street does not exist despise having been around since the early 70’s, but somehow it will still give me directions to my address, in a city 40 miles away.
I started with the iphone as well. And when I first got it I loved it. I give credit to apple for coming out with such a great concept and product.
Unfortunately apple’s business model relies too heavily on coming out with the next “wow” product. That is a lot to ask of any company and even genius like Jobs. Now that he’s gone, will apple lose not only his creative talent but his obsession with quality.
The iPhone 5 may be the first indication that that may be the case. It’s hard for me to imagine that he would have made such a boneheaded decision as replacing google’s very mature and feature rich map app, with something that looks like nobody bothered to test. Maps is one of the most important feature of the “phone” - I use it all the time.
I went from an iPhone to a galaxy Skyrocket. I’ve never looked back. I love the bigger screen, the way it handles text, (it reformats it when you zoom in so you don’t have to do horizontal scrolls - I use it to read FR and it’s great), I also like the navigation buttons and that it’s very fast. I’ve had 4G-LTE for a year, apple is just coming out with it.
Apple has been great at coming out with the “wow” factor, but when it comes to incremental improvents, it is going to get its lunch eaten by google, samsung, htc etc.