Comments on: Report: Apple fires the manager in charge of its Maps app http://gigaom.com/2012/11/27/report-apple-fires-the-manager-in-charge-of-the-maps-app/ Fri, 24 May 2013 07:04:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: richardmgarrett http://gigaom.com/2012/11/27/report-apple-fires-the-manager-in-charge-of-the-maps-app/#comment-1213912 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:52:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=588419#comment-1213912 You’re right, employees are paid and if after some established and agreed upon procedure they are determined to be under performing then they can’t stay. However, the Maps brouhaha, from the outside, seems as much a failure of public relations, marketing, and even the beta testing process all of which are ultimately the responsibility of someone much higher than Mr. Williamson and/or Mr. Forstall. Perhaps for an outsider there are too many missing dots to correctly connect those that we can see. Absent that insight, my sympathy has to be with a dismissed employee.

]]> By: Ernest Braccio http://gigaom.com/2012/11/27/report-apple-fires-the-manager-in-charge-of-the-maps-app/#comment-1213839 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:35:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=588419#comment-1213839 Employees are paid for the work they do, if they don’t do it right, they can’t stay. There must be someone responsible for Maps, and it is correct that highly paid directors take their responsibility. I’m sure mr Williamson has got a lot of money to survive a few weeks without a job…

]]> By: richardmgarrett http://gigaom.com/2012/11/27/report-apple-fires-the-manager-in-charge-of-the-maps-app/#comment-1213803 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:02:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=588419#comment-1213803 As the politicians say, elections have consequences and so do (perceived) high profile failures. Nevertheless, I gotta say the Apple Maps thing has been hyper-stated and its not right that people have lost their jobs. For me, Maps in IOS 5 was not at all comparable to Navigation on an Android device which includes turn-by-turn directions. So the improvement in IOS 6 is substantial. On a recent trip (interstate travel combined with in-city in Denver, CO), we used Maps on an IOS 6 on an iPhone and Navigation on an Android device. Neither was perfect in terms of most efficient routing, but they both got us where we were going. The clearest advantage that Google maintains is Street View…IOS 6 satellite views, however accurate (or not) just don’t compare.

]]> By: Nicholas Paredes http://gigaom.com/2012/11/27/report-apple-fires-the-manager-in-charge-of-the-maps-app/#comment-1213686 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:46:00 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=588419#comment-1213686 Sheesh. Now Apple has a reason to buy Nokia — Nokia Maps. Stop digging, the only two companies with reliable data are Google and Nokia.

Combined with the Chevy announcement, the ability to drive the car may be a feature in ten years. Navteq/Nokia Maps has the data.

]]> By: Droidkin http://gigaom.com/2012/11/27/report-apple-fires-the-manager-in-charge-of-the-maps-app/#comment-1213653 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:32:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=588419#comment-1213653 They are just dealing with the easy stuff at this point. Lots of pain ahead.

]]> By: Danox http://gigaom.com/2012/11/27/report-apple-fires-the-manager-in-charge-of-the-maps-app/#comment-1213472 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:13:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=588419#comment-1213472 Asking Tom Tom for advice Ha..Ha..

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