| I don't think anyone is saying Steve Jobs would not have eventually moved to Maps, but he definitely wouldn't have let it ship in this way...
He would have waited for it to be perfected... probably leaving Google on there.
If Apple really wanted turn by turn directions, there are quite a few that do a GREAT job... my personal favorite is MotionX - and the variety of personalities you can use for the voice.
I am quite sure any of the GPS companies would sell themselves to Apple for a song compared to the nightmare Apple is now undergoing because of the Maps app.
We have news stations saying to avoid it for now... although, as someone said, there are other turn by turn apps out there. Personally, I NEVER used Google Maps.. I paid $10 for a year of turn by turn to MotionX...
Now I have Maps... and in our market, if I had followed it's directions to my house I would have ended up in a ditch about a block away from my house (which will probably be the next Samsung ad)...
Siri, while not perfect, is DAMN good.. It is the best AI I have "seen"... although I do not own a new Android device to see how far Google has come.
I'm fairly certain Steve would not have let this ship... and a lot of people probably would have been fired...
Even the demo shown with Maps were mockups but represented as life like.
In regards to MobileMe.... MobileMe if you think about it was really cool... it was just handled wrong...
For those of you who do not know, MobileMe was CONTRACTED out to third party developers. I actually knew one - didn't even work for Apple but developed the entire web interface we saw.... I'm sure on a small scale MobileMe worked great when Steve approved it - after it went south is probably the start of iCloud...
And in closing, Apple didn't even want to start from scratch with iCloud... Steve Jobs personally met with the founder of DropBox and asked him to join Apple... DropBox guy said no... Steve said, "we are going to compete with you and win."
So far that hasn't happened... I've lost more data in iCloud documents than DropBox has users... DropBox works perfect... followed by SkyDrive (in my usage anyhow).
Mike On Sep 24, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Rowe, Walter wrote: In case no one took the opportunity to actually read the link I sent, the past paragraph said Jobs would have made this move too. Apple wants turn-by-turn navigation and Google won't license it via the API. That is a differentiator for Android vs iOS since Google owns Android. Given that Apple could not get Google to license turn-by-turn navigation, Apple had to go their own way eventually in order to get that feature and compete with Android.
One not-so-secret reason Apple built its own Maps for iOS 6
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