Why Maps Didn’t Get Major Improvements With iOS 8

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Posted June 9, 2014 at 2:58pm by iClarified

Apple's iOS 8 was supposed to bring big changes and improvements to the Maps app —including public transit data, more reliable data, better POI data and more. Many were surprised at WWDC when little to no changes were announced for the Maps application aside from vectro-based maps in China. A source familiar with the situation claims that the lack of improvements was due to the departure of many developers, poor management, and ‘internal politics' that ultimately caused project to suffer.

Many developers left the company, no map improvements planned for iOS 8 release were finished in time. Mostly it was failure of project managers and engineering project managers, tasks were very badly planned, developers had to switch multiple times from project to project.

Another source corroborated much of what was said by the first tipster.

I would say that planning, project management and internal politics issues were a much more significant contributor to the failure to complete projects than developers leaving the group.

There is still a chance that Apple could introduce the enhanced mapping features in iOS 8.1, or perhaps even in a later iOS 8.0 Beta. The company's many hires in the mapping area shows its serious about improving its product, but only time will tell when that will be.

Apple introduced its Maps application with the release of iOS 6. It was met with a lot of criticism over lack of mapping data and POI locations and even caused Apple CEO Tim Cook to issue an open letter regarding the application.

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TheGlen - June 10, 2014 at 1:35am

Apple maps recently put me 8 miles in countryside far from my designation. An elementary school! A map app has to at least find public schools that have been around for 20 yrs.

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gamerscul9870 - June 10, 2014 at 1:38am

Mine puts me exactly where I was headed to, I even compared to how it was before zi started by both pictures Intook with my iPhone and they stayed the same.

TheGlen - June 10, 2014 at 2:39am

Wish I was so lucky. I am using an iPhone 5s and have updated the maps. In the incident above it took Google maps to help me find my way out of the mess Apple maps got me into.

gamerscul9870 - June 10, 2014 at 2:41am

Jailbroken or not and I have been using maps since iOS 6, not one problem or even a crash.

Fukran John - June 9, 2014 at 7:50pm

Let's give enough time for Crapple to copy properly. I know they can, all what they need is time. So I hereby request all iSheeps to be calm and patient. Just give them time, copying google map app wasn't as easy Crapple imagined. So allow them to do properly. Crapple would have bought google map and make it their own ( as they usually do for other companies and competition ) but since google is bigger company than Crapple, they are not selling it. Sad for Crapple but nothing to worry as I expect iSheeps would give them time and not to cry over it. .....

Raul - June 9, 2014 at 4:36pm

Bring back google as default maps. The only thing that really bad about apple is their maps.

Fukran John - June 9, 2014 at 3:26pm

It's just that they didn't have much time to copy / collect data from google map. Moreover it was much complicated to get maps copied than they ever expected. It would be improved in IOS 9 as they get enough time. Let's hope for the best.

gamerscul9870 - June 9, 2014 at 3:28pm

It's just that they didn't have much time to improve what was new to the world/start making their own data compared to googay copying, more exact it was more hard to get maps improved in time before googay maps ever had a chance which they still don't. It will still come to iOS 8 so let's hope for the best.

Fukran John - June 9, 2014 at 7:47pm

gamerscul9870 - June 9, 2014 at 3:18pm

I wouldn't give my hopes up like that, I'd wait for the rest of iOS 8 features, because like they said "we don't have enough time for more to talk about" so that's why this article THINKS they failed but as usual there are fixes anyway.