What's all the fuss? I mean I have had two weeks of great map activity on our vacation and it worked marvelously. First, just before we left I went to Evansville for a doctor's treatment. In past months when we would leave the doctors office we would search out a new Restaurant to eat before we headed home. This past month I had just updated to iOS6 so now Apple was taking us to the same place we ate a month earlier when Google maps did the work.
The Apple route was much faster than the way Google took us, they both got us there but Apple choose a much better route. Now, on the vacation I was so impressed. We would be driving along and wanted to know where a "Cracker Barrel" was for instance. For some reason when I use Siri by hitting the mic. button the results were nothing like they would be when I would move the phone to the ear and once I heard the beep ask the same question. When I would hold the iPhone out and use the Mic icon the question for a Cracker B would be answered with a Web search where I would have to manually do the work of finding the thing, maybe its something I am missing. However when I would move the phone to the ear and after the beep ask it for the nearest Cracker B, I would get a response that she had found three, or six, or whatever and she would say I have one close to you would like to "call" or "get directions" or "move to the next". I would say get directions and the phone would immediately go into the map mode and begin a turn by turn route taking us right to the front door. We used this several times without a hitch. So what's all the beef? This works great, maybe the maps are not yet as "pretty" or detailed but it sure wasn't a problem for what we needed it for. Apple has so many armchair critics that they can't much of anything correct without a huge fuss. I am sure they will improve but for now they served us excellently. On another note, I use AT&T on my iPhone and iPad, my wife has Verizon on her iPhone and iPad. On this entire trip the Verizon coverage was quite a bit better than what I had on the AT&T, noticeably so BUT we stopped at a rest stop somewhere in W. Virginia (in the mountains) to rest and make room reservations for that evening. Verizon was dead in the water, , notta, zip, but the AT&T worked great......so you never know and that's the reason I will say with the two coverages as there are times you REALLY need the outside world......haven't a clue what I did before Apple gave us all these gadgets but now it's a must. John _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
