I wonder what all those people that heckled Apple Maps will say when they see this.
Google’s 3D Maps destroys Manhattan
I wonder what all those people that heckled Apple Maps will say when they see this.
Preview vs production. That’s the difference.
They’ll ignore it, and pretend like it never happened. Or they’ll make excuses that are irrelevant to try and pretend like Apple’s issues were worse, like John C. Bland does here.
Hilarious. No excuses. Read my comment [there was an edit made after the original].
People ripped Apple Maps because they’re terrible. It recently sent me to three non-existant gas stations and three closed Goodwill donation stations. Also it has my hometown high school in a location it hasn’t been since 1999. That’s why it’s the first Apple product I’ve stopped using because it’s completely unreliable.
Nobody will comment on it because it’s Google. They get a pass on everything. No one will even read the article.
I’m an Apple fan and Maps is completely unreliable. I can’t count on it like I can Waze or Google Maps. I understand why Apple had to ditch Google but they replaced it with a broken product. The smart traffic information is atrocious in Los Angeles where I live and there are plenty of times it’s sent me to places that just simply aren’t there.
This and cloud servies are Apple’s biggest glass houses right now.
I don’t think incomplete/messed-up 3D models were the number one user complaint about Apple’s Maps – only tech pundits ran with it because it was evident in screenshots. The main “user* complaint was about inferior POI/address search and search predictions, where Google had the upper hand with years of crowd-sourced user data.
BTW, “Earth” always had wonky 3D modeling, which is why Google’s generally kept it separate from “Maps”, and even after adding it as a feature, it was deemed “beta”.
Google gets away with whatever they want by calling it a “beta”. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes Google makes, or how many failed internet services they close down, everyone has already decided that “Apple is bad at the internets durrrrr”. Facts won’t change people’s opinions.
Apple doesn’t help its case for being good at the internets.
Apple’s maps are fine. Better than Google for me.
If you notice things wrong with Apple Maps, report the inaccuracy to Apple. That’s how the service gets better. Google leveraged their users over the lifetime of Maps to get the results we enjoy today. You’re not going to have that level of fidelity in, oh, a year – especially with Yelp’s garbage data.
Well, it is all about perception.
Apple’s recent, and arguably unprecedented, string of successes created perception of Apple as a technological Jesus who is bound to liberate every market it attempts to enter and make all dreams realized. The upside of that is the enormous mindshare Apple’s able to gather and maintain, as long as it is maintains its near mythical status; the downside is increased scrutiny and expectation of immediate perfection, as well as the statistical impossibility to maintain “perfect” string of successes.
Google is smart to humanize themselves as a company by employing the “beta strategy”. It allows them to make mistakes, be scrutinized to a lesser extent, and not be backed into “you’ve failed by downgrading my dream into a reality” corner.
I thought the same thing. How many of the “experts” will not use the same expletives against Google’s version? So far, I’ve only seen this on AppleInsider.
Indeed. The Verge called the new Google Maps “the most advanced web app ever” or something like that. In the headline, so anyone can see it clearly from the homepage. You don’t even need a marketing department with headlines like this. I expected that from Android Central or any Google-centric blog, but not from a “general” technology site like The Verge. That’s the sad state of technology journalism.
Waze? Oh my God no. Maps is way better than Waze. Waze still has a way to go. I have never had a problem with Apple Maps or Google though.
Is there a more advanced web app?
Do you know whether it is or isn’t? A quote like that is hyperbole if you’re comparing it to every single site on the web.
Then again, I’m sure The Vergeis still feeling the sting of not being given an iPhone 5 to review from Apple which is why they’ve been on their pro-Google binge for the past half year.
Don’t be such a simple-minded douche. There’s plenty of web apps out there that blow away anything Google is doing.
For example: http://atomos.sourceforge.net/aos-1.1/index.html
A whole OS running purely in JavaScript.
There isn’t a definitive answer, no, but I see a ton of sites [part of my job to know what tech is out there] and Maps is pretty high on the list if not #1. There’s some serious code behind getting it to perform that well for such complex tasks.
As for The Verge, I guess it is the view you have that determines their bias ’cause they slam Google quite often.
Really db, you’d be a millionaire by now if you spent the time you do posting anti-apple bs on something productive.
LOL @ Atom OS. That’s not very complex. You act like they rebuilt OSX and are running GUI apps [no, those in Atom are basic HTML elements: text, iframe, textarea w/ wysiwyg, etc].
Does db stand for something? 😉
What anti-Apple did I post? I call it like I see it. Don’t like it? Ignore me.
What is the deal with most of you not liking opposing views? Since The Loop is Apple biased, we all have to be? There isn’t room for anything but Yes Men/Women?
And you act like you’re intelligent and witty. Enjoy your fantasy world bozo.
Will do, thanks.
The 3D view is a cool feature, whether from Apple or Google, but not exactly something you depend on in day to day life.
The driving directions are another thing entirely.
Just do like I did a couple of weeks ago, and type ‘1800 W Remmington Drive Sunnyvale’ in today’s Apple maps to pick up your daughter at a play date. It will happily show you ‘E Remmington’. This is a location not 4 miles away from 1 Infinite Loop.
I’m as big a fan of Apple product as any, but as long as their maps make these kind of grotesque mistakes, I’ll stick to Google.
‘1800 W Remmington Drive Sunnyvale’ resulting in ‘E Remmington Drive’ fine!
And, contrary to Google, none of the many errors I’ve reported through their app have been fixed or even warranted a reply that they are working on it.
When you report a problem with Google Maps, it gets fixed within a month or 2, and you get a notification about it too.
My point was that they both work fine, and both have their issues. Not that either are perfect.
and google has sent me to the wrong place many times as well.
I’m speaking as a resident of Los Angeles who uses a GPS for any trip more than a few miles. Waze’s traffic updating has been a consistent godsend, it’s routed me around construction, traffic jams and a busted hydrant that would have added 30 minutes to my normal commute route. Apple Maps does none of that, it even gives you three obvious choices to pick from, if you’re using traffic data in a smart way there should be no options to pick from, just the one, best, route.
I also find that Apple Maps consistently lists gas stations that either no longer exist or never existed in those places. It also has my old high school on a map where it hasn’t been in nearly 15 years.
Look, Maps as I need to use it is broken. I really wish that weren’t the case. I would love to ditch Waze and Google Maps for just the built in Maps app but that’s just not possible in this city.
My guess would be douchebag.
In my usage Apple Maps has been wrong more than it’s been right, once while I was white knuckling looking for a gas station and it sent me to three that never existed or don’t any more. It’s traffic data doesn’t give reasonable routes in Los Angeles.
No map app is going to be perfect but I find both Waze and Google to be a far less harrowing experience when I need my map app to actually work the way it should.
ok
lol. I know, just ribbing him. When people can’t keep conversations civil I poke the bear.
You and I have just had different experiences. I mainly drive in the New England area and like you in while in LA, when I am Boston, use GPS quite extensively.
I was actually hoping Waze would be better than it has been, but too many times getting lost or sending me down some street that was a dead end or.., well you know because you have had the opposite experience.
..And in my experience Apple maps has been near perfect. I use the turn by turn all the time and I cant remember the last time it messed up anything. Also, the directions ar emore efficient and make more sense than Google’s. Thats the thing about maps. Everyone has a differnet experience depending on their region and usage scenario. But Apple maps isn’t “terrible” by any stretch of the imagination, and the way it was bashed and mocked is definitely overblown. Mapping will never be perfect, but I have no doubt Apple is pouring all necessary resources into it to improve all aspects. Google has had more than a decade to do this.
Do you HONESTLY believe all the 3D will be perfect when Google releases this to everyone? Of course not. Thats the nature of this kind of automated 3D. The difference is, I doubt anyone will really give a shit, unlike in Apple’s case, where the 3D was nitpicked, mocked, and used as headlines for every news and tech site on the internet, as well as evidence for “Apple is doomed”, etc etc.
No, no software in the world is perfect.
The difference, IMHO, is in what’s messed up and how bad. Apple Maps had instance after instance of issues. So far, Apple Insider found one area. I bet if Google Maps starts blowing it like Apple Maps did initially…a whole lot of people will care.
It’s no fun when the rabbit has the gun.