[jeremymims]

Meanwhile, searching for a Broadway address a few blocks away from the Manhattan Apple Store in SoHo led to directions to Broadway in Brooklyn, NY.

I've used Apple products since 1993 (Centris 610) and even owned a Powerbook G3 trapped on ADB and a G4 Cube. I've put up with all sorts of weirdness from Apple over the years.

The point of technology is to help you do your job better. I saw my future of late meetings, getting lost on my way to meet clients in towns I've never seen, and missing flights during my travels.

I turned around and walked out without a new iPhone 5.

[ricardobeat]

A shame, that phone can run the Google Maps webapp pretty well.

I'm getting the feeling that most problems with the new Maps come from it's subpar recommendation/auto-correct engine, which (unsurprisingly) is great in Google maps. It gets thing right if you type exact, complete addresses, but can fail miserably on basic queries.

[bad_user]

It's difficult to operate the Google Maps website on the small screen of a phone. On the other hand, it works well on an iPad. After I installed iOS 6, I added a shortcut to Google Maps on the desktop. Works great.

[bmeckel]

I've been dealing with this for months, and tried to let people know the upgrade wasn't worth it. I figured if I kept some people from it I'd have done some good. Everyone shrugged me off. I can't even begin to tell you how many times I've ended up in different states and even different countries because maps search is such shit. I even held out, hoping it would get better by release, as it is their first maps product, so give them some time to work out the flaws. Not any more, I'm incredibly upset I didn't downgrade before they stopped signing 5, and am stuck with this junk for the time being. Hopefully apple pushes the google maps app through so we can forget about this ordeal.

[cormullion]

> I can't even begin to tell you how many times I've ended up in [...] different countries because maps search is such shit.

Could you give us an example or two? I'm fascinated to know how such a thing would happen. Perhaps it was in Europe - the countries are terribly close together...