For example, often when I am taking a road trip, I will 'drive' the route near the final destination inside of street view in order to visually memorize the landmarks I need to recognize.Īlso, Google Earth is a separate product, and much more enterprise driven, it has substantially larger datasets than the consumer maps with lots more data overlay layers (KML support), even support for the Moon, Mars, and Sky Maps. The 3D view is nice for showing off, but it really doesn't have the utility of street level photos. This 1:1 comparison is pretty rock-solid evidence for how intellectually dishonest critisism against Apple tends to be, as well as the different standard they're held at, even by people who claim to despise the company. Meanwhile, Apple's version looks perfect, with an insane level of detail. Even now, almost a year after Apple maps was released and this imagery was mocked, Google STILL hasn't fixed theirs, and again- noone gives a shit or cares, especially Google cheerleaders. Noone ever noticed, and the ones who did didn't give a shit.

Meanwhile, Google has had the SAME image with pretty much the EXACT SAME distortions- on a product they've been working on for 7 years. Major news sites such as CNN also used it, feigning shock and contempt. Every single fandroid and apple hater reposted it with glee, over and over again, and used it to troll about how bad the product was. The image was supposed to show just show shitty Apple maps was. The distorted image was used to headline pretty much every single negative Maps article, I must have seen it posted thousands of times, accompanied with mockery and denigration. The 3D Hoover dam image is the perfect litmus test to portray the insane discrepency between the coverage of Apple and Google products.

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