Friday 29 June 2018

Apple plans to improve Apple Maps by rebuilding the app and using its own mapping data

In September 2012, Apple Maps was launched and replaced Google Maps as the default mapping service on iOS. But Apple Maps did not get off to a good start to say the least. Landmarks were mislabeled, street names and cities misspelled, countries were missing, and in Australia, the app was called life threatening after it led some motorists to a dangerous part of the Australian bush. Apple Maps was performing so poorly at first, that Apple CEO Tim Cook apologized and told iPhone users to use Google Maps or other competing mapping apps while the company was improving it.

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