SYDNEY (AP) — Australian police are warning that Apple's much-maligned mapping application is stranding drivers headed to the southern city of Mildura in the middle of a remote state park.Victoria state police said Tuesday that an error in Apple's Maps service places the city of Mildura about 70 kilomters (44 miles) away in the Murray Sunset National Park. The park is a desert-like 5,000-square-kilometer (1,900-square-mile) region with scorching temperatures and virtually no mobile phone reception.Police have been forced to rescue distressed drivers. Some were stranded for 24 hours with no food or water and have walked long distances through tough terrain to access phone reception.Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment. CEO Tim Cook apologized in September and said the map service "fell short" of Apple's standards.
Victoria state police said Tuesday that an error in Apple's Maps service places the city of Mildura about 70 kilomters (44 miles) away in the Murray Sunset National Park. The park is a desert-like 5,000-square-kilometer (1,900-square-mile) region with scorching temperatures and virtually no mobile phone reception.
Police have been forced to rescue distressed drivers. Some were stranded for 24 hours with no food or water and have walked long distances through tough terrain to access phone reception.
Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment. CEO Tim Cook apologized in September and said the map service "fell short" of Apple's standards.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 01:37 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, whoops, didn't see that right upthread.
wow, indesign looks really really shitty on retina
― the late great, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
Photoshop and Illustrator were updated for Retina TODAY, while InDesign got a bug fix. I imagine it's not far behind.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
kinda annoying that they never stock MBAs in the refurb store w/8GB of RAM
― ༼ ༎ຶ ෴ ༎ຶ༽ kma (cozen), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
... and you can't have them add in the extra RAM otherwise
... and you obv can't upgrade the RAM yourself
let me bto one real quick and then return it
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
lol, exactly
― mh, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
I think it's more that no one ever returns ones with that amount of memory
― mh, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
Non-upgradeable memory is amongst the most annoying things in all of Appledom. I'm about to spring on a 64gb iPhone, and when 32gb microSD cards are readily available for $25 each, it's robbery to charge $200 for an extra 48gb for your iPhone or iPad.
― Lee626, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
some day they will be able to make the whole phone out of one non-moving part. the diagnostic process will be as simple as: "does this part work?" if it does not work, they swap your phone with their new all-encompassing applecare.
― mh, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
literally robbery
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
not stanning, but I think apple uses storage that's faster and more reliable than your average twenny buck sd card
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 00:16 (eleven years ago) link
They do, but even the highest-end brands of flash memory don't cost $100 for 16gb. I do see Apple's position that forcing the use of high-quality memory leads to ppl not losing their data/photos/etc. and thus the perception of a more reliable device.
― Lee626, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 00:25 (eleven years ago) link
oh yeah, it's absolutely scalping
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
its so ppl look at the cheaper ones and think hmm not a bad price
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 01:41 (eleven years ago) link
I think it's so that Apple makes billions of fucking dollars.
― wongo hulkington's jade palace late night buffet (silby), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 02:08 (eleven years ago) link
The hugest scam is the price to put a 3G radio in an iPod touch runs $600, near enough.
― stet, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 02:10 (eleven years ago) link
All these fuckers are pushing non-upgradable memory. They all want you to use the cloud, which is lame.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 03:07 (eleven years ago) link
what does the cloud have to do w/memory?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 10:14 (eleven years ago) link
I think Josh is referring to storage memory, not RAM.
― mh, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
oh FFS
ONE tiny stuck pixel on my rmbp ... it's like having one grain of sand in your eye. tiny issue, huge huge huge annoyance if i'm trying to watch a movie w/ lots of black in it.
now i'm going to have to figure out how to live w/o a computer for a week or something while applecare sorts it out ...
― the late great, Thursday, 13 December 2012 07:10 (eleven years ago) link
0th world problems
― the late great, Thursday, 13 December 2012 07:13 (eleven years ago) link
what's to sort out? it can't be repaired easily. they should give you a replacement on the spot in an apple store. or is it a BTO?
― caek, Thursday, 13 December 2012 07:55 (eleven years ago) link
it's BTO
― the late great, Thursday, 13 December 2012 07:56 (eleven years ago) link
RIP
― caek, Thursday, 13 December 2012 08:00 (eleven years ago) link
heh I thought there was like a threshold # of pixels - like 5 or less no dice?
you can try one of those screen flashers to unstick it
― 乒乓, Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:01 (eleven years ago) link
OK, I'm very late to this, but in the new itunes where the hell is my iphone and where are the sync buttons?
― ljubljana, Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:56 (eleven years ago) link
Give it a little massage
― mh, Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
― ljubljana, Friday, 14 December 2012 00:56 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://www.tuaw.com/2012/11/29/itunes-11-for-old-fogies-goin-back-to-the-way-it-was/
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 13 December 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
correct, sir :-(
― the late great, Thursday, 13 December 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
he said come back when it's bigger
(nyuk nyuk)
― the late great, Thursday, 13 December 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
Did you explain to him that it was like having a grain of sand rubbed in your eyes all day?
― Alba, Thursday, 13 December 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
in precisely those words
― the late great, Thursday, 13 December 2012 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
he said something like "don't look for flaws in our retina screens because you'll invariably find them, it's new technology and hard to get perfect"
― the late great, Thursday, 13 December 2012 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
the truth is the only time i see it is when i'm watching a movie with lots of lots of black in it, like a horror movie or something. then it looks like a speck of dust on the screen i can't get off.
i know, i know, 1% problems, but i didn't pay $$$$ for the world's most amazing display with a dead pixel
― the late great, Thursday, 13 December 2012 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
they also managed to upsell me on fancy screen cleaning fluid
― the late great, Thursday, 13 December 2012 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
here's an odd thing that's been happening to me: when i am just letting itunes play, it sometimes randomly seems to get stuck on the back arrows << and won't come "unstuck" if i press pause or play ... i have to click on another track to start it up.
has that happened to anybody?
― the late great, Thursday, 13 December 2012 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
I think at this point you should have asked if he would have said that to Steve Jobs.
― Alba, Thursday, 13 December 2012 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
jeff the skinny bearded genius looked a lot like steve jobs actually
― the late great, Friday, 14 December 2012 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
Don't, like, 40% of produced laptop screens not even make it past QC? I'm under the impression that it's exceedingly difficult to manufacture LCD (or whatever they are) screens and dead pixels are just a part of the technology
― jawn valjawn (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 15 December 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
dislike the new iTunes album display with the fancy color-matching. it only shows a faded (and i think cropped?) version of the album art. we have these giant beautiful displays now, it doesn't make any sense. black and white album art looks especially bad.
― hot slag (lukas), Sunday, 23 December 2012 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
I switched to Mac a month ago and I love and prefer most things about Mac, but the things that piss me off are:
- No fucking Delete key! Or rather, the Delete key is the Backspace key, and there is no key for deleting forward.
- Hitting Enter is for renaming a file instead of opening it. WHY? Which operation is more common, opening, or renaming? Therefore, why not make opening a 1-key operation?
- Keyboard shortcuts in Office programs are not the same. Word is weird and scary. Excel is scary and weird.
- Command-Tab switches apps, but not open windows within the apps. Again, WHY? Why not cycle through the open windows? Instead I have to use my mouse or trackpad (I use Hot Corners) to open Mission Control, which is a bunch of extra movement, which seems very un-Appley.
- The whole installation process with the disk images blah blah blah. This turned out to be easy to get used to, but new Macs should come with a big warning label about the installation process. Also, why can't this be automated? (For some apps, it apparently is automated, but not for others?)
- It won't recognize all the keys on my USB keyboard.
There are like a million blogs about this stuff, and now there is one more entry.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Sunday, 23 December 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
Hitting Enter is for renaming a file instead of opening it. WHY?
Reason is supposed to make you use the mouse, now that you've finally left DOS you may not be used to the new interface device.
Command-Tab switches apps, but not open windows within the apps. Again, WHY?
Also, why can't this be automated? (For some apps, it apparently is automated, but not for others?)
― stet, Sunday, 23 December 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
Who uses the mouse to open things? Use command-O.
― mh, Sunday, 23 December 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks, stet. The Command-~ will be very useful. I googled the problem and didn't find an answer before I got fed up, so I am grateful for your advice.
I know about fn-backspace, but I think that deleting is common enough a task that it deserves its very own key.
Were you sassing me w/r/t using the mouse? One of the great things about Macs is the efficiency of OS, so why would I want to use a mouse? I know about Command-O, but again, it's an extra key-press for an activity that is extremely common.
Anyway, like I said, on the whole, I love Mac and I finally realize what Mac people were on about. I tried using Windows 8 on a friend's computer the other day, and found that they had made the simple act of deleting a file fraught with potential malfunctions, and I started saying Mac Guy stuff.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Sunday, 23 December 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
Ah no wasn't sassing you, but Apple. The original Mac keyboard didn't have arrow keys because they were terrified people wouldn't use the mouse and would just carry on with keyboard interfaces.
There are a fair few hangovers from decisions made in those days still in OS X
― stet, Sunday, 23 December 2012 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
Ha. That's funny b/c now (over)reliance on mice is for backwards people.
(I thought it was out of character for you to sass me!)
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Sunday, 23 December 2012 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
After years of using macs, I still hate the enter/rename thing. Then I just gave up on basically all file management on a mac and just let things organize themselves however they want.
― Jeff, Sunday, 23 December 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
That's why I like Quicksilver.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Sunday, 23 December 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link