And Apple Maps was crap at first. They even recommended using Google Maps at one time...
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Waze is simply more aggressive about avoiding traffic, and its social features mean it has slightly more realtime information. Google Maps will tend to avoid sending you on detours through neighborhoods for example.
The police thing -- well the police absolutely hate it, and have been agitating to get it out of Waze for ages. It's still in Waze, but I doubt Google is inclined to poke the hornets nest by extending it to Google Maps.
As far as better -- in terms of driving directions to a specific known address with maximum traffic avoidance, Waze is impossible to beat. Google Maps does a vastly better job of knowing place / business names though, is much more useful for searching, and needless to say, Waze is useless for transit, walking, and biking directions.
I use both regularly depending on the situation.
Was visiting families half way across the country.
Used Apple maps to looks for some local delicacy and found some close by.
Used Google maps to find the same name? It pointed to somewhere half way across the globe, which is mind boggling. (Perhaps that place paid to get listed??)
Now, do I trust Google's AI? Not with a 10 foot pole...
Used Apple maps to looks for some local delicacy and found some close by.
Used Google maps to find the same name? It pointed to somewhere half way across the globe, which is mind boggling. (Perhaps that place paid to get listed??)
Now, do I trust Google's AI? Not with a 10 foot pole...
I am getting so sick of “AI” buzzwords. Can this phase be over now, please? Just make things smart and don’t hide features behind AI marketing fluff.
My biggest fear is not AI itself getting smarter. It’s people getting stupider and and still doing things like operating heavy machinery or cars and other things. AI does not need to be in everything.
In Japan, google maps is far more useful, especially for public transport.
Which is a little funny, because iPhone is far and away more popular here.
Japanese locals either don’t need, or use dedicated transportation apps though. So they probably just use Apple Maps for general stuff.
They have ticketing quotas to meet. Public safety is secondary.
That would be me. Haven't used google maps in at least ten years. Apple Maps has never let me down and is easy to use.
Apple Maps will never be as good as Google Maps simply because of the data that feeds google maps is and may always be more vast and rich than what Apple can provide. An Apple skin for gmaps tho. The real question is why is Siri non useable after all these years.
So is Google Maps going to read menus from restaurant websites and automatically incorporate it into a menu built into Google Maps?
GM already automatically categorizes users' photos of menus into a subsection of photos. Problem is the photo could be old and menu prices change but at the same time, it can serve as a good record of what an item used to cost
I see you can order through the Google Maps menu on some restaurants, it's very clunky and confusing though. Google could easily muscle in on Uber Eats at any time, probably as soon as the model becomes profitable.
“AI” is coming close to being the abbreviation for Actual Irritations 😁
I understand the potential of course, but yeah… the buzz around “AI, AI, AI, AI” shows similarities with the dotcom bubble of the 2000’s…
I do for two main reasons: much cleaner UI and more straightforward route planning for driving. In most cases offered routes are identical across AM, GM & Waze, so it just comes down to the way they are presented.
At this point, I’m kinda waiting for AI toilet paper.
No idea what that would look like, but with everything that’s just a slightly improved search or something that collects data to make assumptions being labeled “AI” we can’t be that far from it.
It does feel like the dot com bubble - or more recently how NFTs became THE thing to jump at.
I do. After my last two Android phones where the arrow on the map not once pointed where I was looking, I got a bit tired of Google maps.
I reset those phones, updated what could be updated (one of those phones was on its first and last Android version ootb) and it just didn’t work.
Apple Maps on the other hand has never had any issues like that for me. Mind you, I bought my first iPhone in 2020 so maybe I missed the worst of it.
I'm from Europe and I have yet to meet a human being that's using Apple Maps instead of Google Maps 🤣
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I honestly think Google - both Maps and search are starting to completely lose their way. Both have been overrun by advertising led data vs useful data. I had to use Google Maps recently for a work project to share sets of saved locations between two accounts and it worked about 50% of the time, their shortened links sent to a browser are still buggy (in Safari) and the interface has become a mess also. Apple Maps is like a breath of fresh air and I hope they never clutter it up like Google has done.
Good to know. Expecting a fast rollout of the new features in other cities and countries.
No, it does not. In my country Apple Maps doesnt have half of the businesses nor locations and as far as I know it's the situation in many countries and Apple Maps often leads you to wrong places. Google Maps doesn't.
I used Apple Maps a few days ago and I ended up in some ghetto. I had to switch to Google Maps and it showed me the directions through the city and with much less walking time.
Yeah it‘s like everywhere nowadays: ads and commercials taking over. But I guess people who use Xiaomis and such with os level baked in ads, just got used to it.
Maps and Youtube are the last remainig google apps on my phone and I hope to at least get rid of maps in the future. Apple could just buy Tom Tom and improve over night.
If Google Maps was a killer app, I would be using it. But it’s not and I’m not.