| rocketpig said: You honestly don't think that Apple bought up a slew of data for their maps system already? Where do you think they found all the data they currently have in the system? If that data is buggy (which it obviously is), then they have to shore up that information. The problem is that you don't KNOW it's buggy until you put it in the wild with millions of users. No development team can do a comprehensive check of a system this massive. Again, we're back to "Apple needed users". Should they have beta-tested the software? Yeah, I think that would have been a good idea. I mean, why not? But now that it's out, they have to fix the problem (which, AGAIN, is being overblown by the Internet in typical dogpile fashion). The application hasn't erred for me and I even started a thread for it on VGC, which garned one response of "it didn't properly parse center/centre". In the long-term, this means NOTHING if Apple fixes it in the next couple of months. That's all there is to it. And the map software that comes out the other end is going to be more valuable to both Apple and iOS users than the Google Maps software that preceded it. |
Definitely needed better beta testing.
As for how it will be in the long term... I think Google will get their actual app out with the normal voice navigation and the only reason people will still use Apple's is because of how Apple forces it on you. i.e. Siri will only work with Apple etc. If iOS was like Android and you could set ANY app as the default, then Google Maps would be the predominate just as it is in the rest of the world on computers and phones.
