By: Michael Tsai - Blog - Apple’s iOS 6 Maps App
[...] Jean-Louis Gassée also has questions about how Apple let this happen, and get so out of hand: In this case, it’s hard to believe the Maps team didn’t know about some of the most annoying warts....
View ArticleBy: Horace the Grump
I think the root cause of this problem is the disconnect between the marketing (hyping) of Maps as the marque feature of iOS6 and the ‘swiss cheese’ reality – the Maps app is pretty good but there are...
View ArticleBy: KBR
I think the more likely reason for the drop is the over exuberant projections by analysts that Apple would sell approximately 8 million phones over the weekend, when in fact they sold 5 million. From a...
View ArticleBy: GadgetFunkie
Jean, This is as poorly written as Apple’s new Maps. $AAPL didn’t drop 4.5% just because of mapgate issue. The following reasons had more to do with the drop than what you claim. 1. iPhone’s release...
View ArticleBy: Fafnir
The principles on which its based are sound. Apple now is proposing what it consider good challengers (to Google in particular). Again Apple is doing the correct way, even when it misstep.
View ArticleBy: Why I returned my iPhone 5 « A random Weblog
[...] This article from The Monday Note reports that the maps fiasco has so far sliced $30 billion off the value of Apple. I say so far, because there is NO WAY that Apple can recover from this mess...
View ArticleBy: iphoned
the stock drop had little to do with maps. more likely the result of “below expectations” first-weekend iPhone5 sales.
View ArticleBy: Jean-Louis Gassée
@ GadgetFunkie and others: You’re right, the weakness in my post hoc proper hoc $30B argument is plain to see. There are many competing post facto explanations for the $30B drop. For comps, I check...
View ArticleBy: John
I find it interesting when people can read the minds of investors and divine why stocks go up or down over the period of a few days. AAPL is traded millions of times a day by people around the world...
View ArticleBy: Fred
Always love your post, but this time, THUMB DOWN. Please turn the Maps drama light off. There is more important/interesting issues in the [IT] world right now. Are Apple users drama queens because they...
View ArticleBy: Juan
“We’ll never know how Apple shares would have behaved, but they certainly wouldn’t have gone lower than they stand now — and Apple’s reputation as a forthright, thoughtful company would have been...
View ArticleBy: Edwin
Mr. Gassée presents a pretty sober view of the maps debacle and attempts to quantify the damage, an obviously difficult thing to do. However, there is a meme in the industry that this is good for...
View ArticleBy: Tim Cook’s apology was a strategic anomaly and opens up an attack vector...
[...] the Maps thing is still happening. In this week’s Monday note, Jean-Louis Gassée makes the case that most of the $30 billion or 4.5-percent of Apple’s [...]
View ArticleBy: Tim Cook’s apology was a strategic anomaly and opens up an attack vector...
[...] the Maps thing is still happening. In this week’s Monday note, Jean-Louis Gassée makes the case that most of the $30 billion or 4.5-percent of Apple’s [...]
View ArticleBy: Steve Sabol
Maps? Really? Clearly the market was reacting to the imminent death of Ping.
View ArticleBy: Tim Cook’s apology was a strategic anomaly and opens up an attack vector...
[...] the Maps thing is still happening. In this week’s Monday note, Jean-Louis Gassée makes the case that most of the $30 billion or 4.5-percent of Apple’s [...]
View ArticleBy: Monsieur Paul
I don’t know much about GIS, but I was under the impression that the “relatively” lower quality of Apple Maps compared to Google was due to poor data. However, It would seem that it is more a problem...
View ArticleBy: AniOSDeveloper
Either the Apple testing & development team and the executives are too lazy these days OR they are too demotivated to do their job. It’s also possible that the team, kind of, given up to Android’s...
View ArticleBy: scott lewis
But is it really all about the maps? Has Apple this time actually brought the right innovations at the right time? I would suggest probably not. - It can help to think about Apple versus the rest in...
View ArticleBy: James Lewin
People love to second guess Apple, but it’s clear that mapping is strategic to them, that the ‘mapocolypse’ is overblown and that this was a painful step that they had to make NOW. Apple is a mobile...
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