Great report John, as with most stuff people get all up in arms about with Apple it is a lot of smoke.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Robinson Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 8:59 PM To: Topics Macintosh computers related to Apple and Subject: [MacGroup] Apple Maps 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 If you are not the intended addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to internet email for messages of this kind. _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
