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A decade after a disastrous launch, is Apple Maps finally good? (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Apple Maps’ offering might surprise people who remember its disastrous launch in 2012, which the Guardian described as the company’s “first significant failure in years”. Users were more than furious – they were lost, sometimes dangerously so. In Australia, police had to rescue tourists from the huge Murray-Sunset national park, after Maps placed the city of Mildura in the wrong place by more than 40 miles. Some of the motorists located by police had been stranded for 24 hours without food or water. In Ireland, ministers had to complain directly to Apple after a cafe and gardens called “Airfield” was designated by the service as an actual airport.

But mostly the map was just glitchy and unhelpful, its directions always a little off kilter. Users revolted and Apple made a rare retreat, allowing Google Maps to be used as the default on many iPhone apps and apologizing for the product.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Betteridge's law (of headlines) is an adage that states "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

[–] Obsession 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Exception that proves the rule? Cause yeah, Apple Maps is actually a Google Maps competitor now, which is great.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you live in some developed part of the world, sure. But it's garbage in my country. Still shows my house location to be in a middle of a national park which is like 100 km away.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Don’t give it more credit than it deserves, it sucks in most developed countries too

[–] deranger 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It really isn’t so long as they’re using Yelp for reviews.

For just driving directions, sure. Google Maps is far more feature rich and I frequently end up regressing to Google whenever I need more info.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah I use apple whenever I want the map on my Lock Screen but if I actually need to find something out comes google

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really? Google reviews is manipulated horribly. The underlying project, the maps, Apple isn’t far behind and in some cases I’ve noticed it’s actually much better.

[–] deranger 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's still more functional than Apple Maps for reviews/discovery. I don't want to use Google, believe me. Apple Maps is only good for directions/traffic awareness. It's still lacking when it comes to discovering things / traveling compared to Google maps. I am trying to get off all Google services ASAP but this is one area they're clearly ahead.