Just as Steve never allowed a Japan launch with a botched autocomplete feature, he never let the phone ship without standard emoticons support, he never let a phone application that crashes when taking calls go through, just as he never would have replaced a locally working voice control system with a half botched network based voice assistant.
Apple's 1.0 products were all just so polished until now.
This is the first time perhaps that the new feature has to match solid expectations, but it's still a 1.0 feature.
Sorry for the tone, but why all the drama on something that isn't either a surprise nor a unfixable problem...
I don't know what it is about Apple that invokes such delusion. Apple has had plenty of unpolished 1.0 releases including a pretty big one - OSX.
I am wondering if it's because of Steve Jobs death that is causing people to almost look for something/anything that show signs of Apple's impending implosion.
A lot of people have been wondering when Steve's absence will really show. I think Apple's been coasting just fine this last year, but iOS 6 is the first clear signal that they risk losing their way - or already have lost their way.
Personally, as a Linux/Android person, I thought Apple would be fine and had diminished Steve's influence in my head. I may have been wrong.
I think this is different because it was pretty difficult to reproduce that antennae problem if you never put your hand in that spot. This Maps app is the only Maps app now and it's missing a lot of features.
Steve wouldn't have let this happen because it's a poor product and it's obvious (everyone uses Maps).
ok then -MobileMe and that was a paid service. The only person who knows what Steve Jobs would or would not have done was Steve Jobs. Stop pretending like you (or anyone else) does.
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume you didn't personally know SJ. If that's correct, then you can't say anything about what he would or wouldn't have done.
Apple made mistakes and missteps with SJ at the helm; they'll make mistakes and missteps with someone else at the helm. It really is as simple as that.
Do you think Steve would have tested the new map application in all countries iPhones are sold? I am sure Steve would have taken same decision as he have already took 'thermonuclear` stance against Android hence indirectly Google.
Steve would have never let this application go through.