Another explanation is that a substantial portion of their Maps team either walked out or was fired just prior to launch, and must now be replaced.
What does Fr. Occam say?
Exactly the same thing happened with Antennagate.
What does Fr. Occam say?
Exactly the same thing happened with Antennagate.
You don't add engineers on at the end but at the beginning.
There was no mass firing for "Antennagate" in fact there was no "antennagate"... like this BS maps "issue" Antennagate was just a bunch of apple haters bashing the company.
The reality is, the iOS maps app is already far better than google maps around here. Apple has terrain data and correct streets, google doesn't even know this major city exists (becuase it isn't in the US or europe.)
The new iOS map app is fine here in Barcelona, except that all the street names are in Spanish instead of Catalan.
Settings --> Maps
But heads rolled at Apple, ask a certain Mr. Papermaster (not only because of that)
I classify that as a major fault. For a premium product, that's unacceptable.
Really? Because tens (hundreds) of millions of people found it _totally acceptable_ and made that phone the top selling phone.
Not to mention that they found that the "issue" was a non issue in practice.
So Antennagate was real, iPhone <5 dropped more calls than any other phone on AT&T. That's the disingenuous part about how Steve handled Antennagate - sure competitors dropped bars when holding hand over their antennas but the competitors antennas weren't badly designed such that they would be easily covered while holding the phone and their phones didn't drop as many calls.
People decided to live with it but 2 out of my 3 friends are on non-iPhones as their work doesn't afford them dropped calls.
It might be that I get a good signal where I live and work (and in 2 different countries, neither of which is the states). So, YMMV.
But, I do remember iPhone 4 owners actually reporting LESS dropped calls than iPhone 3GS:
"iPhone 4 owners are reporting fewer dropped calls than iPhone 3GS owners":
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/08/04/report-iphone-4-owners-report...
And after the media noise blew out, there weren't any complains about it --as if the forums and people forgot all about it--, just people using their phones.
And AT&T could be to blame, not the iPhone. For:
""According to a March study by ChangeWave Research, AT&T is the reason the iPhone drops calls. Users of the Verizon iPhone 4 reported a 1.8% dropped-call rate, the same rate as users of other Verizon phones. Users of the AT&T iPhone 4 reported a 4.8% dropped-call rate, 2.7 times the rate of Verizon iPhone users.""
http://articles.cnn.com/2012-02-20/tech/tech_mobile_iphone-4...
But I guess Apple probably knew that when they bought the domain.
This whole thing pisses me off. People can't just be content to say that it works for them. They have to declare that the problem doesn't even exist, and all of us who are actually experiencing it are somehow wrong. How do you even get the idea to do that?