If I am forced to download Google maps, then why not stick with an Android.
I’m surprised they’re apologizing. Are they bracing for “spontaneous outbreaks of democracy”?
So make sure you buy something from Samsung - that way you really stick it to them ;-)
I love Apple but apologizing is weak. I say fix the problem for IPhone 6 and be done. Everyone uses Garmin GPS products anyway for maps and driving.
How does this stuff get out of the door? Doesn’t anyone actually turn on the things and try to use them?? Or is Marketing so in control, they know it’s Cr@P and figure sell the things and we will deal with the blowback?
Updated my iPAd a few days ago and was horrified by the new maps. Use to be able to find anything almost automatically. Was truly amazing. Now everything is oriented the wrong way. Really awful.
I’ve never been an Apple fan... I equate them to a fashion designer and not an innovator of technology. (Right or wrongly)
I will never forgive them for not encouraging an open hardware platform for their PC, like IBM did with theirs back in the 80’s.... and I’ll tell you what I see the same kind of arrogance with cell phones.
Google wasn’t broken, but Apple decided to fix it anyway.
I’m not one to complain about billionaires fighting each other but in this case it’s appropriate.
No other company in the world in held to such exacting standards of customer satisfaction, and rightly so, given their past performance.
Really, you can go ahead and upgrade to an iPhone with confidence:
First, you're not likely to even see a glitch in Maps if you use it, and
Two, Apple will likely have any minor glitches fixed by the next software upgrade... that's why they have the reputation they enjoy.
That’s not a flaw, that’s a built in feature!
Maybe some Chinese slave software engineer bollixed up on purpose. Slaves can revolt and slaves can sabotage
It’s not just the iPhone 5. This is iOS 6 pushing the change, not a device-specific issue.
If you have an Apple device and have recently upgraded to iOS 6, you’re affected.
Has anyone ever heard of “Maps” or a “ Thomas Guide”?? It is pretty sad that the vast majority of Americans are dependent on an electronic device to find the corner ATM or Starbucks. Back when I was a kid, we actually taught people how to do these things, like Reading and Navigating, But then again you could not get a High School Diploma without Passing Drivers ED and Drivers Training and getting a License. All you poor saps dependent on your GPS for guidance will be the ones wandering aimlessly into the night when the power goes out. Not to mention Most GPS’s will not find the way to a whole lot of places and you will end up lost anyway.
I still use folding paper maps and never get lost. Just give me an address and I can find it and probably arrive at the business or home sooner than people who use GPS.
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
Nothing stops you from launching Safari, going to maps.google.com, and making a alias icon on your desktop.
The “Maps” thing is so over-blown. A large number of users live in major metro areas and see no problems at all. It works just fine for me, as do turn-by-turn directions.
Not to say there aren’t problems, especially for people outside the US (where most of the severe problems seem to be surfacing), but they’ll be fixed.
Odds are, if you live in a major metro area in the US, you won’t have any real problem with the new Maps.
They made the decision easy for you. You can’t download google maps on your iPhone. Google earth, yes, but I would not recommend it for getting around. Map Quest is free, and works OK enough, but I would much rather have google maps.
60% percent profits built on the backs of very cheap Chinese labor and a gullible public willing to shell out all that money to them. What else could you expect?