Originally Posted by PPhilster:
“So? Google is a direct competitor to Apple so to expect Apple to support Google's products is naive.
Apple's Maps will continue to improve. It's not like Apple can't afford to do it. In the end what you'll have is competing products that each have their own individual advantages, which is what you usually get with competing products.”
"So"? Because the Maps app that
used to be present on the iPhone
did do public transport routing, but was removed by Apple and replaced with a Maps app that
does not do public transport routing. Functionality that people were previously able to use was
taken away.
Originally Posted by PPhilster:
“Obviously I wasn't referring to Apple's Maps at launch so responding to my remarks by talking about how they were at launch doesn't make sense.
Why are you so focused on what it was like at launch anyway?. That's history. It's over. That's why when someone focuses on things from the past to criticize Apple it makes me suspicious. Also, anyone can say they own Apple products.”
It makes perfect sense.
You said "Apple's maps have come along quite nicely."
You were therefore saying that Apple Maps has improved since launch, as it has (according to you) "come along quite nicely".
I disagreed with this point, and stated that in my experience it has not improved.
To emphasise my point, I mentioned examples of how (in my experience) Apple Maps was awful at launch, and pointed out that it is
still (in my experience) awful now, several months later, for the exact same reasons it was awful before when it first launched: Inaccurate searches and inaccurate POIs.
Mentioning how poor Apple Maps was at launch was necessary to be able to
compare it to how it is now, given that the whole point was that (in my experience) it most definitely has not "come along quite nicely".
How it was at launch is not "over" or "history" because it is still that bad (in my experience).
As for "Also, anyone can say they own Apple products"... Oh please...
Check my post history in this forum and the Mobile Phones forum. You will see that I have made repeated posts over the last few years about buying Apple products, posts about using Apple products, posts recommending Apple products (and posts defending Apple products against certain members of DS

).
Was that all a ruse, just so I could then come along later and criticise Apple Maps without seeming like a "hater"?
Oh, also, have a look at this:
https://twitter.com/MJDodd/status/180654036666695680
A Tweet I made back in March 2012 when I received my brand new iPad 3 and Apple TV at launch.
I suppose that's fake is it, all part of some sort of sinister cover for someone who is really an "Apple hater"?