Apple Maps

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8 statements about Apple Maps, every show

Kantrowitz: Apple Intelligence failure costs Apple more public credibility than Maps
“What they said was taken as gospel. They rarely fair, rarely failed in public. When they did, it was non-consequential, like Apple Maps. I mean, Apple Maps is nothing compared to Apple Intelligence. Now they're failing in public, and they're losing credibility…”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 6:07 Gruber Slams Apple's Siri Failure, Tech Stocks In Freefall, Vibecoding & OpenAI's Agents
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gross: Google will always beat Apple in services, but lose in hardware
“And I think this will always be the case. They will try to always fix this, but it will always be the case that Google will be amazing at services because ads requires a service business model, and Apple will be amazing at kind of user experience and hardware.…”
Daniel Gross Apr 16, 2019 ▶ 26:36 #56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Rampell: Apple built Apple Maps in six months and fired the lead
“I mean, if you think about what happened at Apple, Apple built Apple Maps in six months. The person behind it got fired because it didn't work very well, but that was an almost impossible job.”
Alex Rampell Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:15 a16z Podcast | Principles and Algorithms for Work and Life
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Wei Lowe: Modern digital maps are built exclusively for human consumption
“But if you actually dive deeper, maps today, including the digital maps, are actually built for human consumption only.”
Wei Lowe Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:51 a16z Podcast | Exploding the Map
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Apple Maps has 3.5x more iOS users than Google Maps
“That Apple Maps has three and a half times more users than Google Maps on iOS.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:36 a16z Podcast | Apple Gets Its Music Streaming and Gives News Another Try
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Glueck: Foursquare Powers Location Data for Uber, Apple Maps, and Snapchat
“Mapping understanding of a 160 plus countries has, you know, winds up in being used in a lot of your favorite apps, Like Uber, and Apple Maps, and Snapchat, and Twitter, and Pinterest, and Samsung phones”
Jeff Glueck Sep 11, 2017 ▶ 4:38 779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company
MAD Assertion Supported
Foursquare location technology powers Apple Maps, Uber, Bing, and 100,000 others
“We power a lot of the location inside Bing. We power a lot of Apple Maps around the world. If you search in Uber or Tencent, Pinterest, and Snapchat, Samsung, Twitter, Garmin, these are among the 100,000 companies that now are using this technology set.”
Jeff Glueck Mar 24, 2017 ▶ 2:33 Location Intelligence // Jeff Glueck, Foursquare (FirstMark's Data Driven)
MAD Assertion Supported
Apple used Foursquare data to improve international maps after botched rollout
“Apple had a few problems with their map rollout, as you may have heard. And so you know, they came to us to try to improve the map data set around the world outside the U.S.”
Jeff Glueck Mar 24, 2017 ▶ 5:03 Location Intelligence // Jeff Glueck, Foursquare (FirstMark's Data Driven)

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