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.
It wasn’t a “BONEHEADED” decision, it was a strategic one.
Google and Apple are at war, removing the google licensing from their product is a strategic long term move, and unlike companies like say MS.. I fully expect that Apple will resolve the issues.
Entire map is vector defined, so all these pics look like just some data fixes to me... and as to getting routed to wrong address or not finding addresses, happens with Google Maps too.
And just so the non techies know... Google doesn’t really own google maps either, they license the core data from another vendor, which is why it is technically illegal to have a turn by turn app on Apple or through the Google Maps libraries on Android as well.. the licensing agreement Google has for general public use doesn’t allowe them to do this so you must purchase through google a commercial license if you want to do this withough violating the licensing agreement as a developer etc.