All the stories tagged with maps
Apple Hires “Ground Truth” Managers To Help Improve Apple Maps
03/29/2013, We’re sure that many iOS users were bummed what Apple replaced Google Maps on their phones with Apple Maps, especially since there were many reports of inaccuracies over Apple’s Maps software. However when Google Maps was released as a standalone [...]
Apple Requires Engineers To Fix iOS Maps
02/06/2013, It is rather comforting to hear that the kind of engineers that Apple is looking for would not release a biological weapon on the rest of humanity for no apparent reason as seen in Prometheus, but rather, it will be [...]
Apple In Negotiations With Waze To Rescue Its Maps App [Rumor]
01/03/2013, The Apple Maps drama has to be one of the most public screw-ups in the company’s recent history as they arrogantly thought they could deliver a maps application as good, probably better, than Google Maps. Not only did they completely [...]
Google Adds ‘See Inside’ Button In Search Results
12/19/2012, It wasn’t so long ago when Google introduced its Street View technology indoors. The result was Google Business Photos which basically shows you the interiors of a few stores in Google Maps. Today, Google is taking that milestone a bit [...]
iOS 6 Adoption Grew 29 Percent Because Of Google Maps
12/19/2012, Google has just re-launched Google Maps for the iPhone last week, and just a few hours after its debut, the long-awaited mapping application topped the App Store, leaving Apple executives envious, and even exceeded 10 million downloads after 48 hours. [...]
Apple and Foursquare rumored to be in talks over Maps data
12/18/2012, Sometimes it feels weird that I have to resort to Google Maps on my iPhone especially since there is a native Maps app built into iOS 6, but given that Google Maps has certain features that Apple Maps lacks, it [...]
Apple fixes Maps for Australia, might not be entirely their fault after all
12/11/2012, Remember yesterday we reported that no thanks to Apple Maps, Australian police had to issue a warning to residents of Australia over a particular route that could lead them into the middle of a national park instead of the city [...]
Australian police warns against the use of Apple Maps due to inaccuracies
12/10/2012, Apple’s Maps app has received a fair amount of flack over its gross inaccuracies, which has resulted not only in numerous complaints, but has turned into something of a punch line. Now it seems that Apple’s Maps software has become [...]
Humor: Apple will fix its Maps software by rearranging the Earth’s geography
12/07/2012, Apple has been receiving a fair bit of flack over its Maps software, which ultimately prompted Tim Cook to release an apology on Apple’s website, going as far as recommending alternatives by its competitors. We know that Apple is currently [...]
Yandex discreetly launches new maps service in the U.S. and Europe
11/06/2012, Yandex, a Russian Internet company that operates that largest search engine in Russia, has released a basic maps service for Europe and the U.S. The new maps services is powered by Navteq, a Chicago-based provider of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) [...]
Apple Maps’ turn-by-turn navigation still M.I.A for Australians
11/01/2012, During the whole fiasco with Apple Maps, it was suggested that one of the reasons Apple decided to drop Google Maps and release their own solution early was due to a couple of reasons, one of them being that Google [...]
China reportedly looking to police “illegal maps” on mobile devices
10/17/2012, A little over a week ago we reported that Apple’s Maps had seemingly outed a secret Taiwan military base which we assume did not sit well with the Taiwanese government. Now it seems that according to reports, China has stepped [...]
Google’s Eric Schmidt believes that Apple should have kept Google Maps
10/11/2012, While a recent survey found that 74% of the people surveyed were actually fine with Apple’s Maps, needless to say there is a lot of work left to be done if they hope to catch up to Google Maps, an [...]
