Given the avalanche of criticism of the iOS Maps application 6, the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, has complained in an open letter to the frustration of many users. In this sense, although the company is working to improve it, Cook recommends other mapping applications available on the App Store, as well as the websites of Google Maps or Nokia Maps.
The Maps application for Apple, but a new option mapping has become an ordeal for users. When the company announced that the application would be available with the new mobile operating system iOS 6, also specified that not all functions would be available for all models of iPhone.
So there were no surprises when it launched. However, when users downloaded iOS 6 on September 19, proved not only that they could not use some of the features of maps but was rather vague in their locations, placing cities many miles of their actual location or being unable to find directions.
100 million users downloaded the iOS 6
The team was aware of Apple, asked for patience and announced that steps were being taken to improve maps. But such was the discontent that even the Tim Cook has apologized. In a letter published on the website of Apple, the company's CEO regrets the maps has caused frustration for users and ensures the company's team is working to make the app better.
Cook continues his letter assuring that Apple have introduced the best features for maps from the first version of iOS 6 and held that 100 million users have chosen to download the new version of iOS on your Apple devices.
But while Apple improved maps, Cook encourages users to try "alternative" from the App Store. Thus, the application recommends Bing Get Me There by Microsoft, MapQuest or Waze, even "use Google Maps or accessed from their websites and create a shortcut on the screen."
"Everything we do is aimed at Apple to make our products the best in the world. We know that you expect the same from us and we will continue working nonstop until maps will match, "concluded Cook.
