The Maps application from iOS 6 has big problems and no one can say that Apple didn't know about their existence before launching the application because this is impossible. Although few have discussed this, several developers I now support that warned Apple about the problems of the Maps application in iOS 6, but the American company failed to solve them in a timely manner. Although many developers warned Apple about the Maps application, these warnings came only after the release of the first beta version of iOS 6, when Apple could not give up the release of the Maps application, so no matter what problems there were, the application had to be included in iOS 6.
I posted at least one doomsayer rant after each (developer) beta, and I wasn't alone. The mood among the developers seemed to be that the maps were so shockingly bad that reporting individual problems was futile. What was needed wasn't so much an interface for reporting a single point as incorrect, but for selecting an entire region and saying 'all of this — it's wrong. During the beta period I filed bug reports with Apple's Radar system (notorious for being ignored), posted on the forums several times, and e-mailed multiple people within Apple's MapKit team to voice our concerns.
The developers used the Apple forums to voice their negative opinions about the application, Apple and its engineers saw everything, but they couldn't do much. The opinion of some developers is that the Maps application has so many problems that it should not be launched together with the map system, but Apple had no choice since it announced it and said that it will be officially available in iOS 6. The company he took a big risk by launching this application, he knew the consequences, and now he is trying to fix the situation by repairing the Maps application, but also the image that was probably affected after this scandal.
This has been a frustrating experience for us and we don't care where the imagery comes from, we just would like our customers to be able to have the same experience within our app when they update from iOS 5 to iOS 6. Instead, the OS upgrade broke some of the features we built within our application despite being told that only the imagery would be swapped out.
The iOS 6 Maps application did not only spoil the user experience but also reduced the functionality of some applications, but the developers probably expected such things considering that during the entire testing period of the operating system they tried to convince those from Apple to solve problems. In the end Apple did as it wanted, this time it was wrong and I hope it learned something from the whole problem.
