The New York Times is not known as a publication that looks for the silver lining in news, but they make a point that may be the only good one for Apple when it comes to their disastrous iOS 6 maps launch.
They certainly couldn't get any worse.
In the ongoing cold war between Apple and Google, users were hit as the first casualty. The brand new maps, brought about as a replacement to help remove a relationship between the two tech giants that has existed since the first iPhone, are so bad they've become comical. It's not funny in the way that Google handled their 8-bit maps for April Fools' Day this year. It's comical in a way that makes us bring back a word that we haven't used in years...
Fail.
Epic proportions.
Techcrunch summed it up by reporting on a single Tweet:
As @winjer pointed out, Apple renaming the English town Doncaster “Duncaster” was “quite special”.
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In the end, we are the casualties of friendly fire when mistakes like this happen.
