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Nokia Maps vs. Apple Maps
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Last week, the scrappy Nokia unconcealed its latest effort to hoist itself into american client relevancy, and now the company selected one in every of the most volatile areas of private technology: the smartphone maps app.
You may have detected regarding Apple’s issues with its new Maps on iOS 6 — the inclined graphics, the inaccurate location information, the fully missing chunks of geography — and its result on iPhone owners who are currently longing for another service. With Google still onerous at work on its own, thirstily anticipated iOS app, Nokia’s app (called “HERE”) simply beat it into the App Store and may even be a legitimate selection for those that notice themselves lost on Apple’s mapping effort.
Is there any reason to change over to the new mapping service from Nokia? Or, to place it another way: What will Nokia HERE provide that Apple Maps will not?
Below, we’ve listed many of the functions you will find on HERE and not on Apple Maps, followed by what revealed missing out on with the Nokia product. scan on to examine the distinction.
WHAT NOKIA HERE HAS
Spoken Turn-By-Turn Walking Directions
If you reside during a massive walking city, you’ll enter your headphones and use Nokia HERE to guide you round the town streets as you amble regarding. With Apple Maps, you’ll need to envision your iPhone show as you go; with Nokia HERE, that info is piped right into your ears.
Indoor Maps
Nokia HERE options indoor mapping info for a restricted variety of sports stadiums, airports and searching malls; Apple remains functioning on it.
Categorized Recommendations
HERE provides specific class recommendations (“Cheap chuck,” “Hip bars”) for locations around you, kind of like lists on Foursquare or Yelp or Bing Scout on Windows Phone. If you register for a Nokia account, you’ll conjointly look for locations on-line and notice them once more on your Nokia HERE app on your iPhone. Another neat feature: once you look for a location, you’ll type your results by store class (“shopping,” dining,” etc.).
Public Transportation
When Apple ditched Google’s mapping information for its house brew, it lost the flexibility to disbursed public transit directions for big cities, forcing San Franciscans and New Yorkers to decide on their own third-party apps to induce their route info. Nokia HERE, like Google, will give directions on transportation system and users haven’t got to exit the app.
WHAT NOKIA HERE LACKS
Remember, of course, that there are bound functions that iOS 6 Maps offers and Nokia HERE doesn’t. For now, iOS 6 Maps has spoken turn-by-turn directions for driving, whereas HERE doesn’t. iOS 6 Maps conjointly integrates with the wealth of knowledge on Yelp, whereas Nokia HERE depends on its own location and review information. We’ve conjointly seen various complaints regarding the standard of Nokia’s mapping information in comments sections of tech sites round the net, thus your mileage could vary.
And, the large killer: Apple doesn’t enable you to line a third-party maps app as your primary map, which implies that whenever you click on an address from an internet site or from an email, you’ll mechanically be routed to iOS Maps, instead of Nokia HERE, no matter your preference. which will be an annoyance if you are making an attempt to load directions quickly.
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The Nokia HERE app is presently on the market at no cost within the iTunes App App Store (for iPad or iPhone). Before downloading it, you’ll familiarise yourself with the HERE interface and take a look at out the practicality on-line at Here.net. that ought to provide you with a decent plan of whether or not the planning is true for you. you’ll conjointly take a look at out what reasonably native results you get in your space, and whether or not you discover the maps correct or useful. And if you don’t: Apple Maps is recouping.
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What direction is iOS heading?(MY OPINION)
Apple's current software which is running on the latest iPhones, iPads and iPod touches, is called iOS 6. There are many people who were really anticipating this to be a 'game changer' for Apple as they face Google's Android. This 'game changer" software turned out to be a flop.With not many key new features added to this software, many people were dumbfounded. Passbook was a feature that I found it to be not useful. Further more, Apple decided to remove the native youtube app from the iOS system. This sparked off debates as to whether Apple is really taking Google as a big competitor. When google maps was removed and apple brought in their new maps, many people found it interesting. This interest did not last for long, when Apple started to ship iOS 6.Many customers found the 'NEW' maps being inaccurate.Despite having features like Facetime over cellular, good siri enhancements and facebook integration, there isn't any new innovation in this iOS update. Customers have ever wanted widgets and more. In my opinion, iOS needs a major makeover inorder to keep up pace with Android.
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Apple - Fire Scott Forstall
Update 29 Oct - 2 weeks after writing this (Oct 15 2012), Apple do the two things I recommend in this post - Fire Forstall & put Jony Ive in charge of all 'Human Interface' design: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20132843
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I use an iPhone 5 & MacBook Air - both devices which I am very happy with.
However, Apple has a large and growing problem. Incompetence and lack of vision in iOS - means it is being overtaken by Android and Windows Phone.
Scott Forstall, Apple's head of iOS software, should be fired, not because of his questionable taste in shirts, but because this is his fault.
Problems with iOS
Total lack of innovation
When iPhone launched, it felt new, it lead the pack in innovation & execution. But it feels like it's virtually stood still while the competition overtakes it. Case in point - last month iOS 6 launched with a lot of new minor features (panorama, call back reminders etc) - but nothing big or innovative.
Windows phone, in contrast, with its active tiles, is looking more modern & more interesting. It looks active, iOS looks like a dull grid of icons. Why can't I see the weather without having to load the app in iOS, for example?
Skeumorphism
"An object or feature which imitates the design of a similar artefact in another material."
Apparently there is a rift at Apple between Forestall & Jony Ive, the industrial designer who in league with Jobs transformed Apple from a company on the verge of bankruptcy to the most valuable company in the world.
Forestall loves Skeumorphism, Ive hates it - and for good reason.
Many iOS apps, such as notes, diary, podcasting & find my friends, use system resources to do things such as, show a reel to reel tape player playing a podcast, or have a stitched leather effect.
Form should follow function. At best this is a ridiculous gimmick, at worst it makes apps more confusing, bloated, cluttered & slow.
Very un-apple.
Podcasting App
Android has had 'download directly to device' podcasting for years. It took apple until 2011 to copy this functionality. Even then, their Podcasts app was unusably slow & crashy on my iPhone 4 at the time (only 1 generation old).
In contrast, many 3rd party apps have been doing this better for years, eg Downcast. I wasn't aware of these apps & thought you had to sync with iTunes for many years (I'm unlikely to be the only one).
Even with an iPhone 5, Downcast is comfortably better.
Basic iOS Usability Failings
iOS has had many minor but irritating usability flaws since launch. For example...
At least once a day, I want to turn my cell off - but leave WiFi on (eg before I go to sleep). To do this I have to first put the phone in flight mode, then go into WiFi and switch it back on.
When playing music or podcast while locked the forward/back buttons are so close to play/pause you often press the wrong one.
The keyboard is awful. Every time I write anything, I have to re-read then re-write it. On Symbian almost 10 years ago I was tracing letters with my finger (P800/P900) in a much more reliable, accurate way. Android has many input options, several of which seem more reliable.
iOS Notes syncing
I lost several important pieces of information that I noted on my iPhone - after setting iCloud up to sync notes between MacOS & iOS. This is BASIC stuff, and inexcusable in 2012 when you have Apple's resources. I have heard other people talk about the same issues.
(this appears to have been fixed with iSO 6).
iOS 6 Maps
Much has been written about the problems with iOS 6 maps. I must say the application itself is well executed.
However, many people, me included, have had problems finding places. Addresses are marked in the wrong place in the street, businesses can't be found, transit information is missing (I used Google Maps to find London busses daily).
Ultimately this is the right move for Apple, but they should have ensured Google Maps was available to users in parallel, or started their own maps project sooner.
Unlike antenna-gate, this is a real problem, and many people may actually decide not to buy an iPhone until this is fixed.
Lack of iOS 'Spotify' style streaming music app
It's unclear how central Forestall might be in the lack of this, but it seems bizarre Apple is standing still with iTunes & downloading music manually to devices - instead of streaming, caching & subscription.
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Responsibility for most, if not ALL these problems lies with Scott Forstall.
Many of them have been festering for years. For Apple to stay innovative they need a visionary who doesn't make continuous mistakes. Forestall isn't a visionary - and keeps making mistakes.
For this he must be fired & Jony Ive should oversee all design, software and hardware. iOS could benefit hugely from his minimalist, functional design ethos.
(Full Disclosure, I own shares in Apple)
Recently Apple's new maps service, released as in-house rival to the Google Maps service, drew a lot of flak due to some significant flaws. However, as announced Apple has begun correcting the many inaccuracies and visual anomalies found in its new Maps app.
October 2nd, 2012
You thought Apple's iOS 6 maps were bad? Try out our new USA Today Basketball Maps! Los Angeles is just down the street from Oklahoma City.