{"id":38133,"date":"2023-01-12T16:13:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T21:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=38133"},"modified":"2023-01-13T15:22:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T20:22:56","slug":"favoring-apple-maps-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/12\/favoring-apple-maps-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Favoring Apple Maps Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/01\/11\/apple-business-connect\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/apple\/comments\/1096ti9\/apple_introduces_business_connect_a_free_tool\/\">Reddit<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/01\/11\/apple-business-connect\/\">\n<p>A free Business Connect tool <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2023\/01\/introducing-apple-business-connect\/\">announced<\/a> by Apple today allows businesses to customize their location card in the Maps app with a brand logo, images, and other key information, such as special promotions or seasonal menu items at a restaurant. Businesses can also highlight various actions, such as ordering groceries via Instacart, making a dinner reservation via OpenTable, booking a hotel at Booking.com, and more.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2023\/01\/11\/technology-apple-is-ruining-maps-app-in-favor-of-their-maps-services\/\">Adam Chandler<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2023\/01\/11\/technology-apple-is-ruining-maps-app-in-favor-of-their-maps-services\/\">\n<p>This is a timely announcement because just yesterday, I recorded a video of what I consider a very crappy experience that&rsquo;s new to this version of iOS available today. The experience of researching a place you&rsquo;d like to go and then going back to do a different search takes multiple clicks. It&rsquo;s also not human friendly how you clear the floating tile, nor is it clear what all of these guides are doing and why there are hundreds of them.<\/p>\n<p>Some of my gripes with Maps on iOS 16:<\/p>\n<p>Pushing the App Store on me both the jump to install Yelp or apps of the POI like CVS\/WalMart\/Shell\/Subway, etc when I&rsquo;m just trying to find a place to get fuel for my car<\/p>\n<p>If I&rsquo;m seeing the arrival time to a place (you have to route there to see this), I have to tap 6 times to get back to the search window.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The very slow animations of zooming and panning around the map.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Big City Things, algorithmically deciding what to show me. [&#8230;] Google Maps shows you everything if you zoom in to maximum zoom but Apple doesn&rsquo;t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a pet peeve of mine, too. He links to several TomTom apps that &ldquo;have zero advertisements or any tomfoolery that makes getting from point A to B difficult.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/12\/apple-is-building-a-demand-side-platform\/\">Apple Is Building a Demand-side Platform<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/12\/the-apple-services-experience-is-not-good-enough\/\">The Apple Services Experience Is Not Good Enough<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/18\/google-decides-to-monetize-maps\/\">Google Decides to Monetize Maps<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"favoring-apple-maps-services-update-2023-01-13\">Update (2023-01-13): <a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/apple-maps-guides\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/apple-maps-guides\/\">\n<p>It took me a while to find any Guides for Calgary &mdash; where I live &mdash; because there is no way I can see to search for them. In addition to the random assortment suggested on the search card, there is a massive list sorted by creator, and select cities can be found on an Explore card &mdash; but Calgary is not one of those cities. However you might see Guides listed on the results card if you search for a city. That is, if I want to find suggestions for great pasta spots in Calgary, I need to search for the city I live in and then scroll down the card to find relevant guides. I find that unintuitive, to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, Guides in Maps feels like an unrealized marketing idea instead of a user-facing feature which means it is, as Chandler writes, more intrusive than helpful.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rossignol (Reddit): A free Business Connect tool announced by Apple today allows businesses to customize their location card in the Maps app with a brand logo, images, and other key information, such as special promotions or seasonal menu items at a restaurant. 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