Apple Maps' Six Most Epic Fails

Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone 5 includes two huge flaws that Steve Jobs would never have sanctioned. As I posted September 24, one of them is a new connector that forced one iPhone owner to spend $1,300 toreplace all the iPhone accessories that became useless when he decided to buy the iPhone 5.

But the most dangerous flaw is clearly the broken mapping App, Apple Map, that replaced the excellentGoogle (GOOG) App available on earlier iPhones. As the New York Times reported, Apple decided that it no longer wanted to give Google all that valuable information about how iPhone customers were usingGoogle Maps.


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So it decided to buy mapping data from about 24 suppliers and display it using Apple’s home grown software. For example, Apple bought map data fromTomTom, restaurant and store listings from Yelp (YELP), and traffic data from Waze. And Apple is having trouble finding and fixing the 1% of all that data that’s wrong.

In my opinion, here are thesix most egregious errors in Apple Maps:

1. 747 Rendezvous. As CNNMoneyTech reported, Apple Maps provides an incorrect address for Washington, DC’s Dulles Airport and directions to it that “couldget a driver arrested and possibly run over by a 747.”

2. Brooklyn Bridge Plunge. WeKnowMemes provides a comparative image of the Brooklyn Bridge from Nokia Maps and Apple Maps. The Nokia image looksright, but the Apple one depicts a sharp plunge in the road — if drivers used that image, they’d prepare themselves for sudden death and be pleasantly surprised when it did not happen.

3. SydneyAnzac Bridge Plunge. TheAge provides a similar Apple Map fail from Sydney, Australia. That’s where its Anzac bridge is portrayed as taking a plunge — though not as steep as the Brooklyn Bridge’s. No...