Sunday, October 7, 2012

Apple Maps: Tim Cook 'extremely sorry'

2:00 AM | Posted by ProJ | | Edit Post

CEO issues apology rare case of problems with the data on the card, saying that users can use the products of their competitors if they are dissatisfied

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Apple, Tim Cook, said he was "very sorry for the frustration" Users found your service a new card, adding that they are not satisfied can use competing products.

The dramatic move by Cook due to increasing complaints about the quality of the data produced by the new Maps application, which was introduced with iOS 6, the latest version of the iPhone software mobile tower and iPad .

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Google abandoned because the two sides could not agree on the terms of the license for the Google voice guidance turn-by-turn navigation - Google offers for phones using the software Android in December 2010, and saw Apple as a key element in the wars of smartphones.

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time Apple has spent over two years in the development of their own service, using data from other suppliers. But the introduction last week - which led led turn voice navigation - also caused a scandal by cities, suburbs misnamed lost, parks designated as airfields and loss of direction of transport public versus Google data available in the previous version of iOS.

"We do everything we can to make maps better," Cook wrote in a letter published on Apple's website -. A method often used by predecessors of Cook, Steve Jobs, to deliver messages when Apple faced criticism
  • Apple apologized for past mistakes - although sometimes reluctantly. When Apple dropped the price of the original iPhone to $ 200 in September 2007, just weeks after their sale and thousands of people had been purchased, Jobs offered affected users a coupon for $ 100 - but said " is the cost of living in the way of technology. "When Apple launched its MobileMe service, offering cloud-based synchronization of email and calendars, which was initially disastrous - Leaders employment to apologize publicly. When the iPhone 4 design had problems mitigation with external antenna, Jobs was finally moved to offer refunds and free coverage for your phone.
  • Cook said in his letter that "we wanted to offer our customers the cards even better, including features such as step-by-step, integrated voice, [View] satellite maps and viaducts basis vector [which store data in one file rather than having to work repeated discharges]. To do this, we had to create a new version of the maps from scratch. "
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Although formally 6 was released September 19, Cook says there are now more than 100 million devices that use a new card with Apple, "with more more that unites us every day. "He said that users" have sought nearly five hundred million locations "and those comments to improve the quality.

Exceptionally, Cook recommends that users who are not satisfied with the offer Apple should try competing services. This includes applications MapQuest, Waze and Microsoft's Bing or Google and Nokia Maps via Web browsers.



However, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said this week that the search giant is currently developing an app for iOS.

'' What we would do, the force (Apple) to include the software? "Schmidt said in Tokyo on Monday, adding that Google currently has no plan to carry out its iOS Google Maps application and submit to Apple. Such a decision depends Apple, Schmidt said.
'' We thought it would have been better if they had kept ours. But what do I know? "He said.



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