The fiasco of the Apple maps application has been sounded. Users have shown their discontent in thousands of different ways and different channels. The apple company finally acknowledged the mistake before the public, but it never stopped being strange that a company as careful as the one from Cupertino, which has always provided devices and software with an excellent finish and user experience, would allow something like this. Now several developers who were affected by the change in the map service, by the deletion of Google Maps, have stated that they warned Apple that Maps wasn't working long before its release.
CNET collects several testimonials from a few developers who have chosen to remain anonymous as their relationship with Apple continues. However, they submitted data to CNET that proves what they said in the interviews. These received a beta version of Apple Maps in June, long before its launch with iOS 6, so that they were testing their insertion with those innumerable applications that used Google Maps within their application. Well, the general guideline is who reported those bugs to Apple and the tech giant ignored it.
One of the people interviewed says that with the dissatisfaction among the developers it was generalized and that it seemed absurd to make an individual complaint about something so obvious, and it is that they were not specific failures but that you could find completely wrong parts.
In the developer forums you will find an authentic commented list of errors that they found in the map service and many of them were kept in the version that consumers finally saw. Those mistakes have to do with wrong locations, images with clouds when taken with the satellite and maps with little degree of detail compared to Google's.
Another developer says that they conscientiously followed the procedure to convey their complaints or impressions to Apple, but that they never received notification that the bugs would have been fixed or guidelines to bridge those glitches by the iPad producers.
This interviewee expresses the general feeling of the developers whose applications need a map service and that is that they only want to give a good service to their clients, that they do not have any preference regarding where the map images come from, but that this experience has been frustrating.
We imagine that it is just as frustrating for users as according to some experts have stopped using Apple's mapping service right away.
Source: CNET