Comments on: How Google Maps may have actually helped Apple

By: Dustin Ravizé

Dustin Ravizé — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 09:42:57 +0000

I have to agree with this man, and I will truly give an example of what it seems to be navigated to the incorrect location. I was in Anaheim Hills last weekend and booked a hotel at the Fairfield Inn by Marriott-Anaheim Hill at 201 N Via Cortez, Anaheim, California 92807 you will get hotel listing in a Residential Neighborhood. But, clearly there is no hotel there. Its actually across the street in the back of a shopping center with the address of 201 Via Cortez, Anaheim, California 92807. That is an example of not bad design, or anything. It’s about the amount of time that was put into the application to make it fully workable and accurate.

Google is all about Beta! and they should be, they are extremely open. But Google Maps was in Beta for years upon years before it became an official headline, and then it took years and more years after that to really put a dent into the foundation. Don’t you all remember Mapquest? How quickly did that fade?

But I also do believe that Apple Maps will be extremely successful someday if Apple chooses to be. They know what they are doing, its not as simple as building a calculator app. You have to create a deep and immerse experience that grows as more people use it, because of the people that are using it. Every Social Networking site is like that, and every other thing that requests customer feedback to bigger and better need that. That alone, that means that Google Maps and Apple Maps will never be complete because they are consistently changing and adapting.

To think that almost everyone used actual paper maps to navigate themselves about 15 years ago is nuts.

By: Alan Reid

Alan Reid — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 03:43:10 +0000

From what once was a shareprice of 700 dollars to nearly 500, it was certainly expensive but I can see where your getting at.

By: Mark Birkinshaw

Mark Birkinshaw — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:57:20 +0000

I am one of those that supports the anecdotal evidence. I upgraded my iPad and found that Apple Maps was garbage for Western Australia. Whole suburbs in the wrong place, no knowledge of businesses. Not enough detail and schizophrenic directions. So I left my iPhone well alone. Now I’ve just installed Google maps on my iPad again, so will upgrade my iPhone this weekend.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:52:01 +0000

I haven’t found that to be the case at all. Do you have any specific examples?

By: Nicolas Renaud

Nicolas Renaud — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:30:20 +0000

U are wrong in that and calling people that do not align their usage of a device with yours is probably a sign of closemindedness if not worse

map is maybe the app I use the most on my device
I use it to find where business meetings are, restaurants appointments, finding my way when driving etc.

apple cant find companies properly if at all
instead of restaurants i get parking lots
all seaches found by google btw

as for driving direction I tried it once and instead of a museum I got to a point in the middle of the forest 25 miles away…..

By: Paully

Paully — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:10:21 +0000

I use the Apple maps 5 times a day, literally… I have had no issues whatsoever.. I have no idea why so many people disregard it without the credibility to do so.. The ONLY thing I miss is “street view.” Otherwise, I feel it is superior to googles offering, and now that googles has been rereleased for iOS, I’m sure many people will realize that Apple maps is not bad at all afterall.. Just a bunch of undeserved HYPE.

By: George

George — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:57:03 +0000

How does people upgrading for free help apple..?

By: pjs_boston

pjs_boston — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:56:36 +0000

Only mindless dopes waited on the Google Maps app to upgrade to iOS 6. These are the same mindless dopes who bought into the bulls**t blogosphere meme that Apple maps is unusable. It’s just not true. Apple Maps is not perfect, but it works quite well for me and for every other iOS user I’ve asked.

By: Mary Swaddle

Mary Swaddle — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:03:26 +0000

next topic lets move on…

By: Michael W. Perry

Michael W. Perry — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 19:54:45 +0000

High-tech corporate execs need to get a life. There’s little reason for every major type of application to have a version with their corporate label on it. If a competitor has a good product that runs on your platform, that should be enough.

It’s good that Apple’s Maps app pushed Google into creating an iOS app with features more like those of its Android app. But in general, Apple’s move into Map apps make little sense. Buying commercial data for such app is only part of the expense, as Apple is discovering. That raw data has to be cleaned up by hand, purging out all the embarrassing errors.