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Australia police discourage use
of Apple maps app after rescues
CNET News, by Steven Musil
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Posted By:SourKraut, 12/10/2012 10:04:29 AM
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| Apple recognized a few months ago that its iOS map app was so inefficient that it encouraged use of competing apps. Now police in Australia are suggesting that such a move might save the lives of motorists Down Under. Police in Victoria, Australia, issued a warning Monday discouraging iPhone users from relying on Apple´s map app after rescuing several people who became stranded in recent weeks in the wilderness following the app´s directions
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Blind adherance to the ´latest and greatest´ with tragic results.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Crashnburn, 12/10/2012 10:53:07 AM (No. 9057656)
Looks like Apple picked their map app(le) a little green.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Proud2bninfidel, 12/10/2012 11:04:35 AM (No. 9057677)
shouldn´t take rescuers 24 hours to find them.
just use the same app and destination and they will be lead right to the lost folks.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
skedaddle, 12/10/2012 11:08:25 AM (No. 9057684)
And this is why I still have paper maps and also familiarize myself with where I´m going before I get in the car. GPS seems to be an efficient sheep training system.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Not your typical New Yorker, 12/10/2012 11:10:03 AM (No. 9057688)
I´ve been using a Garmin device in my truck for years and it is dead on the money every time.
Since getting the iPhone5 I´ve used it´s maps for guidance 4 or 5 times and it has been wrong every single time, sometimes a 1/4 mile or more off the mark.
Apple, instead of encouraging us to use other maps should just fix the one they have and be embarrassed at the map they´ve offered.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
viking diver, 12/10/2012 11:35:59 AM (No. 9057726)
I have 2 or 3 different map apps all which work very good and blow apple´s app out of the water. some even have turn by turn voice for free.... As the previous poster pointed out, get a paper map and familiarize yourself and don´t blindly follow a GPS. Looking at a map and knowing traffic patterns you can save yourself time and headaches by using a different route than the suggested one. Just saying
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
cheeflo, 12/10/2012 11:54:26 AM (No. 9057754)
When I updated the iOS on my iPad, it replaced my Google Maps with Apple´s Maps. Apple has acknowledged that it´s not up to snuff, but they decided for me anyway. I love my Apple devices, but I hate it when they do stuff like this.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
TheGrandWahzoo, 12/10/2012 11:55:56 AM (No. 9057759)
isheep!!!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
cheeflo, 12/10/2012 12:03:56 PM (No. 9057775)
#4 -- how about we choose which app we want to use, leaving Apple out of the decision? If they can fix it, fine -- fix it. In the meantime, and until their own offering is much improved, I´d rather not even have it on my device. I want the Google Maps app back.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
killerbee, 12/10/2012 12:05:40 PM (No. 9057780)
"Technology made me drive into a lake!" (paraphrase from The Office)
Anyone who hasn´t been sent to a dead end and told to turn right or left by a GPS hasn´t really used them much.
After the EMP we´ll all be digging out our paper maps anyway.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
dipi, 12/10/2012 12:38:37 PM (No. 9057828)
Apple should have fixed this problem already.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
drkillj0y, 12/10/2012 4:03:50 PM (No. 9058214)
This is Apple without Jobs.
I´ll give them 5 years before they burn through their cash....
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
vesicant, 12/10/2012 5:08:48 PM (No. 9058352)
Hmmm, that looks like a gigantic desert up ahead, but nah, I´ll just keep going until the nice lady says something.
Darwin Award candidates, every one.
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