Apple: 'We're working non-stop to improve iOS 6 Maps'
Apple's Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer has said that the company is working hard to improve the iOS 6 Maps app that was blasted by critics when it launched in September.
Ashleigh Allsopp | Monday, October 29 2012 | 9 CommentsApple's Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer has said that the company is working hard to improve the iOS 6 Maps app that was blasted by critics when it launched in September.
During Apple's fourth fiscal quarter earnings report on Thursday, Oppenheimer said: "We've made a number of improvements to Maps over the past month and will work non-stop until Maps lives up to our incredibly high standards."
Apple's Maps app replaced Google as the native mapping service on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch when the company released iOS 6 alongside the iPhone 5.
Upon its launch, however, users found that landmarks had been relocated, buildings were obscured by cloud and some areas are in black and white, as well as many other inaccuracies in new app.
The complaints became so wide spread that Apple's CEO Tim Cook issued a public apology about its mapping service, and suggested that iOS users turn to competing apps "while we're improving".
Some improvements have since been spotted, and Oppenheimer's comment suggests that we will see further changes to the Maps service in the near future.
[Via The Mac Observer]
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Apple went and forced every call to google maps by ANY app in iOS 6, to be redirected to their own mapping service. How they haven't been fined by competition watchdogs many times over for that is beyond me. But at least they ended up with egg on their faces from their own map app. Karma sucks, huh Apple?
Posted by Mark L at 9:13:06 on November 5, 2012
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Posted by Shane at 13:14:08 on November 2, 2012
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Obviously they must not stop, they don't know where they are.
Posted by R2x1 at 7:10:35 on November 1, 2012
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Posted by Shivaprakash at 17:51:17 on October 30, 2012
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Posted by Alan at 12:07:19 on October 30, 2012
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Apple is a D- rating down from an A- from when Jobs was running the show. Stay away from Apple products.
Posted by JONNY at 5:14:50 on October 30, 2012
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Posted by Anonymous at 2:29:29 on October 30, 2012
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Why cant you wake up and understand what we need. A simple working map.
Posted by Peter at 2:53:47 on October 30, 2012
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Posted by Tom at 13:36:25 on October 29, 2012
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