Was driving on 680 near Fremont recently and tried to use Siri/CarPlay to search for the nearest Costco. I just pressed the microphone button and said, "Costco" when Siri asked me, "Where would you like to go?". The first result it gave me was a Costco in the state of Washington. WTF? How can Siri and search and Maps be so bad after all these years?
Yeah man, i tried using apple maps yesterday to get distance between two places, it kept showing distance from my home. If only Jobs was still here... half the staff would be fired.
In the same vein, if any if you know how to remove this garbage Apple Maps off of my iphone let me know.
The only time I use apple maps when apps like yelp force me.
Because they use Bing behind the scenes
When I interviewed with Siri team sometime ago, talked about how Siri can improve and how much it needs to catch up as a voice assistant, guess what the Director whom I was interviewing become so furious and started asking how can you say such thing about Siri, etc. etc. looks like they are still at the same mentality. The only cute thing about Siri is it’s name.
You dodged a bullet, because the only word to sum up that Director is “delusional”.
All fair criticism. Hoping for maps 2.0 to make real impact.
Because Apple has never gotten services right. Services - Amazon, Google Social - Facebook Productivity - Microsoft Streaming - Netflix, Spotify Cloud storage - Dropbox The only thing Apple does well is hardware.
iOS is a software, they got that right. Apple music and apple pay are decent too. Siri and maps, they just dont want to improve these two products.
No. Apples hardware is not that great compared to other phones. They are good at marketing and brand building and huge markups.