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Tim Cook Apologizes
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[Craig Seeman] “As an urban dweller it’s hit me hard. There’s basically no public transportation function and street view is gone. “
Yep, I hear that.
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“iPhones map fails” is an official web meme. Here are a few places you can dig into them. I’ve never seen anything like some of these examples, and I bet you haven’t either. Just a follow a couple of these links to see why they generated an actual apology.
Although, the fact is that you’re really NOT holding it the right way.
My favorite is currently this nicely curated collection from HuffPost, “Apple Map Fails: 19 Ridiculous Glitches Spotted In Apple iOS 6’s Anti-Google App.” It’s still being updated, and is now up to a couple of dozen. They also invited you to add your own…but they’re being added in so many places around the web that this collection is still far from definitive. Still, gotta love that real-time reporting.
Close to definitive: a Tumblr devoted to Those Amazing iOS Maps. Some truly astounding stuff, and lots of it.
Apple Maps’ 6 Most Epic Fails, Forbes. Most of the fails noted here are linked to other articles, which include even more fails. The Forbes author is being a bit of a drama queen when he says he hopes nobody loses their lives relying on these maps….but I hope nobody involved relies on keeping their jobs.
If you can read Japanese, here are hundreds more. An English translation of a few of the most epic of them — and there are apparently many hundreds of them at truly epic scale –reveals that among the fails, Apple doesn’t even include Narita Airport in Tokyo, one of the world’s busiest. It’s just not on the map at all.
Even Apple lapdog Pogue weighs in with 8 pretty good slides.
Those are just off the top of my head, but I’ve never seen anything like this. You’ll have a alot of fun digging into these. A nice way to waste a couple of hours on a Saturday.
Enjoy!
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Kinda OT, but on my Maps guided trek to Sedona, I had a chance to see “Searching for Sugar Man” at the Sedona Film Fest – a new Swedish/British/Detroit documentary about the most brilliant unknown 1960s musician nobody in the US has much heard of.
What a GREAT documentary.
I hugely recommend you seek it out if it’s in your town.
I came away with my head reeling in a VERY good way.
Fabulous storytelling. Great construction. Worthy subject. And I suspect it’s going to show up on the 2013 Oscar night and do really, really well.
FWIW.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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[Tim Wilson] ” but I’ve never seen anything like this. “
All that needed to be done was to change the psychology, just a little bit.
It’s a shame, really. They should use their ubiquity to an advantage if they want to crowd source, and they could have asked their customers for help in the first place. I’m sure Timmy Cook is learning.
Jeremy
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