The system Apple Maps of the company from Cupertino makes blunder after blunder and from the recent problems with drivers directed to an airport runway we now move on to o the political problem much more serious. It seems that in Asia, Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), does not recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state, but as a province of China, a country to which Apple is giving more and more importance, from all points of view. So the Maps application for iOS 7, as well as the Maps application for OS X Mavericks they displayed information about Taiwan in the same way, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already sent a complaint to the American company.
The move came after local internet users found that maps on the operating systems iOS 7 and version OS X Mavericks automatically displayed "China Taiwan province" in simplified Chinese characters whenever they searched for "Taiwan". "It does not fit with the reality," Kelly Hsieh, the head of the foreign ministry's Department of North American Affairs, told reporters. "We've made representations to Apple. Matters like this must not be compromised. "
Unfortunately, incidents of this kind can give rise to very big diplomatic problems, because China is still not fully reconciled with the idea that Taiwan is no longer its province. Of course, Apple will solve the problem as quickly as possible before spirits flare unnecessarily, but the emergence of problems is new proof of the fact that Apple Maps is not a system in which users should put their trust.
