|
|
|
iOS 6 Maps are so bad, there is now a Tumblr page to mock them
|
|
The following comments relate to this news article:
article published on 20 September, 2012
With the new release of Apple's iOS 6 mobile operating system, the company moved away from Google Maps to add their own Maps app.
The app is supposed to have photo-realistic and interactive 3D Maps, and for some places it does. For the most part, however, the maps lack details and have extremely awkward glitches that either "melt" areas of the map or flatten them.
Additionally, there ... [ read the full article ]
Please read the original article before posting your comments.
|
Junior Member
|
22. September 2012 @ 10:09 |
Link to this message
|
Originally posted by Bozobub:
@ bloke2000: The real point has nothing to do with which OS is better; it's the undeniable fact that Jobs would never have allowed this software to go public, without making sure "it just works". THAT'S THE ENTIRE POINT OF OWNING APPLE PRODUCTS, BY THEIR OWN PR.
I 100% agree Jobs would not let this have happened and the point of the story is about that, however the comments on this thread steer away from the original point and that is what I was responding to.
|
|
Advertisement
|
 |
|
|
Staff Member
4 product reviews
|
22. September 2012 @ 11:16 |
Link to this message
|
99% people who believe Android is "slow," "laggy" or "buggy" have never used a vanilla version of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.
|
|
bdaleypsu
Junior Member
|
22. September 2012 @ 16:21 |
Link to this message
|
Originally posted by bloke2000:
Originally posted by sammorris:
To be fair, I think criticism of Android for being less stable than iOS is valid. Of course, being able to do a lot more with the OS than you can with iOS probably has a lot to do with that (in much the same way that Windows is less stable than OSX because of what you can do with it). Slow is an irrelevant point as it's all down to the hardware capabilities of the device, and the current top-tier Android devices are every bit as fast as iphones. Presumably bloke2000 doesn't realise that 'slow' and 'laggy' refer to the same issue.
I have been using a Galaxy S3 for 3 months and just moved to iPhone 5, technically the Samsung it better equipped on paper but the iPhone is without question much more responsive.
Laggy = slow to respond to starting tasks
Slow = slow at performing these tasks.
BS! I have a Galaxy S2 and it is buttery smooth.
|
|
TheCheeseGoat
Newbie
|
24. September 2012 @ 08:58 |
Link to this message
|
Originally posted by harhumph:
London bridges flattened down... flattened down...?!
Don't make the same mistake Robert McCulloch did...lol!
|
AfterDawn Addict
1 product review
|
26. September 2012 @ 18:55 |
Link to this message
|
Originally posted by Bozobub:
Oh, yes they certainly DID "drop the ball". Apple's entire paradigm centers around "It just works", after all. Why by an iDevice for 35-50% more, when it has the exact same (in fact worse) problems that any other device does, after all? Certainly, the Applite zombies will stumble in for a while, but even they won't tolerate this kind of mess for long.
Jobs is spinning in his grave.
It is 35-50% more because people are willing to pay for it...they may claim "It just works"...but they released the iPhone4 with a deathgrip antenna that they knew about before they started beta testing, and they kept it on the iPhone4s...so no, it does not "just work"...it "just sells"...so who cares if it works?
Originally posted by DVDBack23:
99% people who believe Android is "slow," "laggy" or "buggy" have never used a vanilla version of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.
Or any Nexus distro for that matter; even an old 1-st gen moto droid is smooth with Cyanogenmod...not very powerful of course, but the menus work fine.
Originally posted by bloke2000:
Originally posted by Bozobub:
@ bloke2000: The real point has nothing to do with which OS is better; it's the undeniable fact that Jobs would never have allowed this software to go public, without making sure "it just works". THAT'S THE ENTIRE POINT OF OWNING APPLE PRODUCTS, BY THEIR OWN PR.
I 100% agree Jobs would not let this have happened and the point of the story is about that, however the comments on this thread steer away from the original point and that is what I was responding to.
Jobs let the iPhone4 ship with a bad antenna, and then defended it. If he was alive today, we would see a press conference with him claiming some insanity like, "It's magic, it moves cities and lets you drive across invisible bridges". Jobs did marketing, not engineering. As for their own PR, if you actually believe the slogans of a PR department, you should be required to wear a helmet at all times.
Originally posted by xtago:
To be honest this app would never have gone out, it probably would never of been released as google maps is far better and many people would probably want to use that app.
At the time Steve blocked the Flash player from the iPhone, flash was the vast majority of online video, he even went as far as to say, "if you want porn, get an android" because he knew that HTML5 porn was practically non-existent, and that other online video services had only just begun to experiment with HTML5. None the less, he blocked the app. He knew that many people would want to access flash videos, and he didn't care...he blocked the app for no justifiable reason because he knew Apple sheeple would buy whatever crappy phone Apple made, regardless of what it couldn't do. Steve was probably the one who started this whole Apple maps project to start with anyway, so saying he wouldn't have released it is just poppycock.
|
|
Advertisement
|
|
|
|
Bozobub
Senior Member
|
26. September 2012 @ 22:24 |
Link to this message
|
a) I wasn't claiming Apple always "just works", silly, I was noting the obvious failure to match their PR, nothing more.
b) The antenna issue was something that could be conceivably excused as easy to miss, from an engineering standpoint (not that they DID, mind you, I'm sure they knew). The Maps app' problems, however, would have been easy to see from even the mopst cursory testing.
|
|
