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Thread ID: 126847	2012-09-21 01:00:00	Don't use crApple Maps	KarameaDave (15222)	PC World Chat

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1302495	2012-09-24 07:51:00	iMaps can't even be used for wrapping unwanted apples for landfill. :(	R2x1 (4628)
1302496	2012-09-24 08:36:00	Quite a bit of FUD in this thread and lots of jealous people,if you don't like itoys fine, but to spread misinformation and slag the product off, smacks of something else..... Hate to say it but +2	The Error Guy (14052)
1302497	2012-09-24 21:13:00	Quite a bit of FUD in this thread and lots of jealous people,if you don't like itoys fine, but to spread misinformation and slag the product off, smacks of something else..... -1 Apple bashing should replace rugby as the national sport	gary67 (56)
1302498	2012-09-24 21:19:00	-1 Apple bashing should replace rugby as the national sport :lol:	KarameaDave (15222)
1302499	2012-09-24 21:49:00	It isn't? ;)	R2x1 (4628)
1302500	2012-09-24 21:56:00	-1 Apple bashing should replace rugby as the national sport This :D	pcuser42 (130)
1302501	2012-09-26 02:18:00	www.nzherald.co.nz Apple's new map application has users bemused, but New Zealand appears to have been spared the worst of the app's flaws. In the latest update for iPhones and iPads - iO6 - Google maps has been replaced with Apple's own application. Early upgraders are reporting that the new maps are less detailed, look weird and misplace landmarks. It's shaping up to be a rare setback for Apple. "It's a complete failure," said Jeffrey Jorgensen. "It's slower, its directions are poorer and its location data doesn't seem to be accurate. All around, it's not quite there yet." Jorgensen, a user interface designer for a San Francisco-based startup, began using Apple Maps months ago, because Apple made it available early to people in its software development program. He said he finds himself relying on Google Maps running on his wife's Android phone instead. While Google and Apple have worked well together in the past, Google's association with Apple rival Android has lead the company to develop its own software to replace the Google apps. Google's YouTube has also been replaced on the new operating system. The most-hyped feature of the new map app is a "Flyby" mode that shows three-dimensional renderings of buildings and other features in major cities. It presents a convincing depiction of the canyons of Manhattan, for example, but has a hard time rendering bridges and highway overpasses, which tend to look wobbly or partly collapsed. The Apple app also has a tendency to judge landscape features by their names. For instance, it marks the hulking Madison Square Garden arena in New York as green park space because of the word "Garden" in its name. The TD Garden football stadium in Boston gets the same treatment. Conversely, Apple Maps marks "Airfield Gardens," a farm and plant nursery in Dublin, Ireland, as an airfield. This prompted the country's Justice Minister, Alan Shatter, to warn pilots on Thursday not to land there. "Clearly the designation is not only wrong but is dangerously misleading in that it could result in a pilot, unfamiliar with the area, in an emergency situation and without other available information, attempting a landing," he said. There are also issues with the search feature, for example a search for Manchester United Football Club instead takes users to Sale United Football Club, a community team for ages five and above. One critic has compiled some of the worst map errors on Tumblr, including examples of incorrect labelling, sketchy rendering, towns obscured by clouds, and out-of-date information. http://theamazingios6maps.tumblr.com/ Kiwi entrepreneur Sam Morgan is one of many to be less than pleased with the new map app. "Got lost in Sydney last night. IO6 maps actually not quite as good as I had hoped ..." he wrote on Twitter this morning. A quick browse at the maps for New Zealand by nzherald.co.nz did not find anything as whacky as has been found abroad. None of the New Zealand cities have the feature which makes buildings and structures 3D, so there are not the issues with things appearing warped. All the major landmarks also appear to be in the right place, and Christchurch seems to be fairly up to date. The pinpoint markers for some locations are not in exactly the right place, for example the markers for Whangamata and Greymouth are in the bush behind the towns. There is light cloud over some towns, especially on the West Coast, but it not appear any locations are as obscured as some overseas, particularly in Scotland. The new app can be slow to show street names, particularly for small towns. A few small towns, including Thames and Fox Glacier township, do not render quite properly, and appear as a smear of pixels in the satellite view. There is also a small weird mark near Rugby Park in Greymouth. Many towns are in black and white when the user zooms into them, including Queenstown and half of Westport. Marcus Thielking, the co-founder of mapping-app developer Skobbler, said the lapses of the Apple app are surprising, particularly since Apple purchases map data from an established provider, Tele Atlas. "The combination of Apple and TomTom screwing up something like this is very odd. Apple is not the first and only company using Tele Atlas maps," Thielking said. Tele Atlas is a subsidiary of TomTom, a Dutch maker of navigation devices. Last year, Apple released another software product that many regard as half-baked: the voice-controlled virtual assistant Siri. But Siri's ability to at least sometimes understand spoken queries was something most users hadn't met before, so they forgave its lapses. With Maps, Apple is replacing an app nearly every smartphone user is already familiar with. User reaction on social media has been fierce. One Twitter user quipped that the lines of people queuing up to buy the iPhone 5 on Friday will be shorter, because the buyers will be misled by the new Maps. There's been a Google Maps app on the iPhone since it was launched in 2007, but it's always come with the operating system. Now that it's gone from the list of "core" apps, users are finding that it's not available for download either. Google could make one available, but hasn't announced its plans. - nzherald.co.nz, AP	Geek4414 (12000)
1302502	2012-09-26 02:27:00	Apple Scraps Google Maps, Puts Its Interests Ahead of Customers finance.yahoo.com Careful, Apple! You're Giving People Flashbacks To The Horrible Old Microsoft Monopoly Days www.businessinsider.com 4294	Geek4414 (12000)
1302503	2012-09-26 06:20:00	A bit of humour ... It is not a bug, it's a feature www.youtube.com 4296 4297 New Zealand’s Fiordland presents a homage to this Wahlberg masterpiece. 4298 4299 4300	Geek4414 (12000)
1302504	2012-09-26 09:48:00	Quite a bit of FUD in this thread and lots of jealous people,if you don't like itoys fine, but to spread misinformation and slag the product off, smacks of something else..... The maps suck, there is no doubt about it but I thought the Apple guys were supposed to be the dead horse beating elitist fan-boys, looking at this thread I'd say it's the other way around.	Alex B (15479)
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