[dragonwriter]

> Apple Maps was never as bad as the media hype suggested at the time.

I used it briefly at the time and it was worse than the media hype suggested, in the worst case routing me back and forth across most of the North-South axis of California for a cross-town trip.

> While it was worse than Google Maps it was still as good or better than most automaker nav and portable units people were accustomed to using.

Even with a map database that is now a decade out of date, my Prius's onboard nav has never given me the kind of problems Apple Maps did in my brief period of using it, and its had far more opportunity.