Comment Re:Apple bashing (Score 1) 452
How is this remotely insightful? Few to none of the issues with Apple Maps have anything to do with the map design, and everything to do with the data in it. This isn't about taking dumb routes to the right place, this is about the map features being in the wrong location, as well as quite often missing.
Given that the interface has some neat usability enhancements, and given that the mapping data is licensed directly from the well experienced and trusted giants of the mapping industry, it has almost certainly had plenty of work from "outdoors" types. If there's one developer type that they should have consulted more it's apparently the information theory PhDs, because Apple's biggest problem here has been their failure to get the data that they've clearly paid for off their cloud servers and onto mapping screens - and I suspect that is a fundamentally difficult matter of graph theory and data management, not insight into usability.
Parent comes across as an anti-academic knee-jerk rant saved up from several bad online mapping experiences gone by.