New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

lol at some of these articles

“Mapping is probably the biggest weakness of iOS 6, but it’s still a relatively minor weakness,” Gartenberg said. “Two million customers have already said it’s not an issue.”

yeah they also haven't received their phones yet

haha

pls pls let fedex be using ios maps to deliver phones

i die a little inside every time i see calendar on the ipad.

It pisses me off that notes/reminders are so fugly, because they are the only notes/todo apps taht update in the background

maps on iphone used to be terrible - I remember traveling with some folks in early 2010 and being very thankful I had my blackberry - but obv this is a bad time to cede map dominance to google. apple's got enough money to map every inch of the planet by hand tho don't they?

haha a friend of mine is currently having a meltdown over how terrible Apple's maps are, it is delighting me

a huge change here is that they're being so massively ridiculed over them. The whole antennagate stuff was lame jabs and butthurt whining, this is just "lol apple". I bet they can't stand that.

guys apple and google are very likely using the same basic datasets for their maps

*gasps*

kinda depends on what you mean by basic and who cares when the user experience deviates so wildly

the dataset............

........................is the universe

the user experience..... is life.

oooooommmm

google's got a set of data they've been refining and updating for years and years, apple's using tom tom's data now

apple can fix annoying stuff like having to type "brothers" instead of "bros" to find a business, but if it doesn't know the correct coordinates for your address, or that a street or business no longer exists, welp

hoping there's some sweet death race 2000 style action between google's steetview cars and the apple carts in the future

seems like googles big advantage long term in maps is that theyre a search company

wonder if googles just waiting long enough for apple to get some bad publicity before they drop their ios app

yeah, no doubt at all I think

has apple ever had a successful server-side service? ever? apart from the stores, I guess.

messages?

google whistling idly while they enjoy the smell of apple's flesh in the fire

messages was down for a day or so last week, and has some shocking delays sometimes.

they even fucked up email

I still use lolsparrow :/

apple n google should just merge, for the good of humanity

did you guys know that apple has a magic web page on apple.com, and when it's not available no iOS users can use wifi

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/how-google-builds-its-maps-and-what-it-means-for-the-future-of-everything/261913/

ok reading this and yeah, apple is cooked, there's just no way they can match this

Ha, Google themselves haven't updated yet:

http://www.google.com/mobile/iphone/

Go down to the link to Google Maps and click.

yeah, that web page was down for 30 minutes last night and casued chaos

Night of the fight, you may feel a slight sting. That's pride fucking with you.

tom tom have been pretty vocally distancing themselves from apple maps in the UK

did you guys know that apple has a magic web page on apple.com, and when it's not available no iOS users can use wifi

― hot slag (lukas), Thursday, September 20, 2012 12:43 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57516590-37/apple-apparently-fixes-ios-6-wi-fi-bug/

haha what why

so if somebody ddos's this thing we're sol

http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html

Success

i bet they took it down when they were moving stuff around. Apple is shocking at keeping old links working.

http://theamazingios6maps.tumblr.com/

some of these are amazing

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_manth0rvQS1rhptwbo1_1280.png

Was going to say, I have no problem with that world actually existing so long as I didn't have to get around in it.

lol macworld "stunning"
http://www.macworld.com/article/2010065/review-refined-ios-6-highlighted-by-stunning-maps-overhaul.html

*stunned*

it is kind of jarring scrolling through a long-ass article and seeing all the restaurants and maps being things in my neighborhood

has apple ever had a successful server-side service? ever? apart from the stores, I guess.

AppleLink. Until it was replaced by eWorld

yeah these maps certainly are "dramatically" better than the old ones, thanks for the review guys

anyway, fuck complaining about maps, we got NEW EMOJIS people~

*starts furiously rewriting all my saved notes*

I would have posted more to this thread but I've been stunned by maps

YAY GAYMOJI!

brb, just quickly looking for the new google maps app

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/A3QuS9PCIAAIY5V.png

only 285 side-swipes to go

the bad:
- everything everyone has mentioned upthread
- the wtf colour-matched top bar thing that goes an insipid aqua most of the time

the good:
- pinyin input (if you type 'nhm' you get '你好吗' (this is hugely time-saving))

how to get to melbourne airport:

1. drive nw along calder freeway
2. turn right where there is not a road
3. drive THROUGH SOME FARMS AND ALONG A FUCKING AIRFIELD TARMAC

http://www.ausbt.com.au/photos/view/maxsize:640,480/505a643d186047cd821f3b2b767f2254-IMG_7338.jpeg

this thing is terrible

i decided to test it on the following route today:

1) drive two blocks down my street
2) turn right, drive straight 1.6 miles

i set it to figure out the route as i was pulling out the driveway, by the time i got there it had worked long enough to tell me that it couldn't figure it out

i'm going to plug this thing into my mac and restore ios5