Developers told Apple that their maps were’nt ready for the public or proper use, but in a hurry Apple still released the awful map apps. Even the developers said the maps were “shockingly bad”. And as we all know the release of the maps were so bad Apple CEO Tim Cook had to apologize to iPhone users.
“I posted at least one doomsayer rant after each (developer) beta, and I wasn’t alone. The mood amongst the developers seemed to be that the maps were so shockingly bad that reporting individual problems was futile. What was needed wasn’t so much an interface for reporting a single point as incorrect, but for selecting an entire region and saying ‘all of this—it’s wrong,'” CNET quoted one unnamed developer of iOS apps as saying.
Others among the half dozen sources CNET spoke with said they notified Apple of specific bug complaints concerning “mixed up locations, clouds in satellite imagery, and maps that were less detailed than the ones offered by rival Google.” Some were reportedly ignored, while on at least one occasion, Apple responded to a developer by saying that a problem with iOS 6 Maps was “well understood” but offered no information on how it was being addressed, if at all.
When iOS 6 was eventually rolled out with the new Maps app, one developer said the “OS upgrade broke some of the features we built within our application despite being told that only the imagery would be swapped out.”
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