[empath75]

Shows how important first impressions are. Apple maps was terrible on release and Apple deleted google maps from people’s phones when it came out.

I was visiting Costa Rica at the time and the small town I was in which was thoroughly mapped in google maps didn’t exist in Apple maps at all. An infuriating experience that made me never want to use Apple maps again.

[scarface74]

Apple didn’t “delete Google Maps” when Apple maps came out.

The Maps app was written by Apple from day one. It used Google’s data. Google wouldn’t allow Apple to do turn by turn directions without Apple giving Google more user data. Apple had to either find other sources for map data or give up user privacy.

[dragonwriter]

> Google wouldn’t allow Apple to do turn by turn directions without Apple giving Google more user data.

As I recall the reporting at the time, it was a choice of either more data or more money for turn-by-turn navigation.

[dragonwriter]

> Apple maps was terrible on release

Yeah, I remember when, just after release, on a trip between Woodland, CA, and Davis, CA, it decided to route me through Woodland Hills, CA. (Not “it mistook a Woodland address for Woodland Hills, but it routed from Woodland to Davis by way of Woodland Hills, adding ~800 miles to an ~12 mile trip.)

[asark]

If only you'd followed its directions, you'd have gone on an amazing days-long adventure that ended in your finding a fortune in buried gold. Alas, you second-guessed the navigation genie.