Apple’s new Maps app has been – well, it hasn’t been good. The company has already promised that the application will get better with time, and CEO Tim Cook has even went so far as to publicly apologize and promise a fix as soon as possible. Thankfully, it seems that Apple is keeping its promises and today quietly released an update to Maps that rebuilds some of New York City’s most recognizable landmarks.
Memorable New York City landmarks that were updated today include the Statue of Liberty and the Manhattan Bridge. In fact, most of New York seems to be all fixed and ready to view like Apple intended.
Unfortunately, areas outside New York are still messed up – especially if those areas are in countries other than the United States. Still, this update came one week later than the pathetic Tim Cook letter, which means that Apple truly is trying hard to fix what it broke.
Let us know if you find any other changes in Maps today. You won’t have to manually update the app, as the update seems to have been applied to the Maps servers, so just fire the app up and look around!
This is one reason not piss off google
Google would not grant Apple built in voice navigation on Google Maps as they wanted the feature to stay exclusive to Android. Apple had to ditch Google Maps to stay competitive.
Hahahah, competitive? If Google really wanted to, they could roll over Apple and their maps.
Actually, from what I’ve read there was a potential willingness on Google’s part to provide voice navigation, but Apple didn’t agree to Google’s terms (in-app branding, adding Google Latitude). They couldn’t hit upon a win-win situation, and Google wanted something for providing such data.
But even if the talks had gone smoothly, it was inevitable for them to split – and hoping this competition leads to more and more innovation (not patent litigation!).
Apple always has to do things their way…sometimes it can be good to give in at least a little.
It does lead to innovation, yet at the same time, I prefer a company doin what they do right, instead of also taking a leap jump and falling on its face flat.
Yes, they have the right and its good for them to do it that way, but dont force consumers to use something by shoving them down their throats. Which in the end, they did, because they removed what the consumer liked and then gave them an inferior product. Yes, they later came in and suggested how to do things, but only after much criticism.