We decided to grab dinner near the Hollywood bowl last night - about 1.4 miles away - which should take 8 minutes during light traffic .. keeping an eye on both uber and Google maps for estimated arrival and it looked really good .. until we left and hit stand still traffic .. but Google maps showed green traffic Finally my girlfriend pulls out her iPhone and sure enough .. everything is red with an estimated travel time of like 40 minutes .. we could have walked there :'-) And yeah I get it .. Hollywood to the Hollywood bowl and a sold out show .. im just sad that Apple maps beat Google maps in such spectacular fashion :-/ I guess it pays to have a city full of iPhone users feeding data into the apple maps backend .. End of rant TC: 330k
thanks for sharing
It’s possible that your gf pulled up Google maps too in her iPhone.
Obviously I checked which app she was using ..
One case is not good enough to draw conclusions, also could be your phone having bad connection. And seems OP doesn’t know Google Maps also has lots of users on iPhones, lol
Obviously I know that .. I don't know how much location data ios shares with Google when they're not currently using Google maps which was the point ..
Sure.. its just one data point .. Except Google maps was just as wrong as the uber estimate and as far as I know they use Google data. At any rate .. im going back to the Hollywood bowl at the end of the month and still repeat the experiment. ( and I guess screenshot along the way .. )
Change my mind....Apple sponsored post
Seems a bit paranoid But on the other hand I'll take their money :-) I'm just sharing an observation because I typically trust Google maps estimates and was disappointed it could be so wrong
Insider news: Apple uses Google's maps APIs, and just to show that they "think different" use the color red instead of green
😂
Nice Ad
I have iPhone and after Apple Maps took me to wrong address twice, I switched to Google Maps.
Sure .. 99% of the time I trust Google maps more, hence my surprise..
Dang, looks like you got the B in that one A/B test. Turning off feature flag now.
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