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Rumours are circulating to that effect.

It takes about 500 million dollar to own just 0.1% of AAPL

But that's if you buy today on the open market. As a high-level executive of Apple since 1998, Cook has had plenty of opportunity to get stock in company through compensation and purchases. In fact he was awarded 1M shares when he became CEO of Apple in 2012. I doubt the NCPPR has more shares than him.

One issue is that they are using the existing network of bus stops, but they don't contribute anything to the city.

Yes, yes they do. Google has paid for the use of those stops. A little basic fact-checking wouldn't hurt. Hope you normally do better — I've been taking your posts on faith, but that's over now.

"Will they take ownership of the issue, or continue to ask customers to pay for an entire new logic board when just the GPU fails?"

Seriously?

Apple has a history of acknowledging and providing free fixes for issues of this magnitude, if they're really affecting a significant percentage of the population. I've been the beneficiary of such a fix in the past myself.

Hell, that's even mentioned in the linked article:

Mid–2011 iMacs with AMD Radeon HD 6970 graphics cards experienced similar failures and in August of 2013, Apple initiated a Graphics Card Replacement Program for the computers, replacing the graphics cards of affected iMacs at no cost.

So with the MacRumors article having only come out yesterday, it seems pretty aggressively snide to be suggesting that Apple's going to ignore the issue.

Dan Aris

The In-App Purchase confirmation always tells you you're spending real money.

You need money in your iTunes account to download a free app.

Bullshit. You do not need any money (CC#, gift card, or otherwise) attached to your Apple ID to download free apps.

He got very upset and pleaded with me that he had only downloaded free app and he had not gone crazy downloading high priced junk.

I was able to generate a detailed listing of his iTunes purchases. All the gift card money has been spent on in-game purchases. He had no idea that he was purchasing anything. He showed me. The game would ask if the player wanted something (more time, more bullets, more lives, etc.) and ask for the AppleID password. It was entirely unclear that he was spending real money.

Bullshit. From the start, in-app purchases popped up a notification confirming the purchase, with the dollar amount right there in the confirmation.

No sales receipt was ever generated.

Bullshit. Apple sends purchase receipts (for apps, in-app purchases, everything) to the primary email address you registered with the Apple ID.

This here is a perfect example of how stupid and inattentive a parent had to be to allow a kid to rack up crazy charges. You put money on your kids account, and gave him full access to spend it all - and, despite notifications that he was spending actual money (which he and, apparently, YOU both clicked through without even reading), he went ahead and spent it all. And now you're whining about it.

You can always get a thunderbolt expansion chassis like Sonnet Echo Express III.

I process a lot of data and this doesn't impact me since the JBOD box is external anyway. If I did upgrade to the new Mac Pro, I may be able to use something similar to Promise announced 20 Gbps thunderbolt 2 RAID enclosure

Yes. Apple is working with the Blender team to optimize the popular free 3D design package for Mac Pro.

10% of the market?

I concur. Last quarter MS said Surface sales doubled, but they haven't given any solid numbers and last quarter they had a $0.9 billion write-off in order to dump their old inventory. One estimate suggests that sales can't be more than 1 million at best, more likely something like 850k. Now, compare that to Apple's 14.1 million units over the same quarter and that Apple is something like 30% of the tablet market, you realize that any projections of MS Surface capturing any substantial part of the market are just silly.

On the bright side, I did just see my first Surface being used in the wild recently. Granted, we didn't actually use it for anything, but I finally did meet someone who bought one. Maybe MS can do what they did with Xbox and just continue dumping money into it until they out-subidize their competitors (a.k.a. stereotypical monopolist behavior).

you may find this link interesting to explain the lengths they went through to exploit this bug. WSJ made a good infographic. It's paywalled, so this link has an accessible version.

Still think this isn't a hack?

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/11/18/google-to-pay-17-million-settlement-to-states-in-safari-privacy-circumvention-case/

Google is lying. Please look at this info graphic from Wall Street journal that shows how far they went to invade people's privacy:

Do we know this for sure? The wiki page about that references an Ars Technica article which doesn't manage to actually show that there is more than one chip (the pin-switching one) there. The main argument trying to prove cable-DRM is Apple's MFi program to whitelist manufacturers for the cable.

The closest to circuitry analyses below neither mention a "security chip", much less discuss the internals of one.
http://brockerhoff.net/blog/2012/09/23/boom-pins/ and
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/25/apples-lightning-connector-uses-adaptive-technology-to-dynamically-assign-pin-functions/

Maybe because sales aren't falling: http://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2013/01/applelinechart.jpg

According to Gartner's numbers, the U.S. market held up significantly better than the global market, actually registering a 3.5% increase in shipments led by fourth-place Lenovo's 24.6% gain. For its part, Apple was the only one of the top five vendors to see a year-over-year decline in shipments, falling by 2.3% to take 13.4% of the market. Apple was, however, able to show some relative strength over the previous quarter, using its popularity in education to increase its U.S. share from 11.6% in the second quarter to 13.4% in the back-to-school third quarter.

IDC's numbers painted an even worse picture for Apple, with the company's 11.2% year-over-year decline in U.S. Mac shipments trailing the overall U.S. market, which declined just 0.2%. As in the Gartner survey, third-place Apple, which garnered 11.6% of the U.S. market according to IDC, was the only one of the top five PC manufacturers to see a decline in shipments.

Surely Apple's decline is a result of neglecting their PC line, which is understandable since the iPhone is an unstoppable money-printing machine. So I agree they will probably rebound somewhat by finally refreshing their MacBooks with Haswell processors. (The new pro, I think will be a dud. But the Pro hasn't been a big seller for ages.)

I think you are correct that the current leadership has not yet proven that they can innovate in the way that Mr. Jobs did. That said, the iPhone 5s is really a nice step forward, real-world tests are showing that the A7 really is a lot faster, and the fingerprint thingy is winning a lot of accolades. And, they've sold a hell of a lot of them. Nonetheless, the stock price is actually a bit lower than before the 5c/5s announcement.

The truth is that the stock price for a lot of companies, and Apple in particular, does not reflect the financial success of that company or the company's products. Just compare Amazon's numbers to Apple's and you'll get what I mean. Stock prices today are more driven by bets on where that price will be in 15 minutes (or 15 milliseconds), not how well the company will be doing in a few years. As such, stock prices for high-tech companies are not a valid way to measure the company's success in the marketplace.

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/08/19/20-of-apple-iphone-customers-switched-from-android-7-of-samsung-buyers-switched-from-ios/
A real reporter would ask for a break down of those 1.5 million activations. Are they upgrades, new customers, replace phones or people who switched from iOS. It's sad how bad reporting is today. Seems like reporters are only interested in generating page views and flame wars. What happened to objective reporting?

On a volume basis, now #2 worldwide, and that's against much cheaper (and even free) phones sold. On a profit basis, by far #1.
As was Blackberry.

Apple releases once per year. Given the fast pace of phone technology, in that time it is likely one of their many competitors will release something better in various ways. Apple just release again, eclipsing them. The leapfrog game will continue.
Releasing a product every year is not the same as innovating, let alone keeping pace with more nimble players

Apple just keeps making money faster than they can spend it.
That's how companies develop cash hordes. And without success in new markets that's how they lose it too.

Develops overly conservative derivative products to protect its existing business and margins?
And so has every other once-successful company who lead their respective industry. At the pinnacle of their success they looked like geniuses for protecting their market and margins. Later not so much.

Was once seen as hip and cool but now ridiculed as "my father's" device?. Yeah, right.
Every day I see elderly people fumbling with their iPhones, squinting try to understand what they see. That comes with success and the late adoption cycle, but with that comes the loss of cool, which in the smartphone industry is a tough tradeoff since older people don't upgrade nearly as often as the young'ins.

You seem to have taken a wrong online turn at Macrumors and landed here. Here's a link to get you back on track: http://www.macrumors.com/

The Macbook Pro is the current example, it has not changed in specs or price point in close to three years.

This is incorrect. The last non-Retina MacBook Pro came out in June 2012, and the average time between releases is 267 days.

Same thing happened with GMail in Germany, and with the iPhone in Brazil. With each country having their own system for registering trademarks, it becomes problematic to come up with a name that doesn't infringe on anybody else's trademark. There really should be a single, global registry for all trademarks, because, with the internet, every business is a global business.

Every time a competitor produces an Air apparent in a similar form factor the price comes in about the same.

For the base model. Just don't select any upgrades.

Especially don't select RAM upgrades. Apple charges $100 to upgrade from 4GB to 8GB of RAM... so effectively $100 for 4GB. You can get 8GB of brand name (Corsair, G.Skill, Crucial...) laptop ram at RETAIL for less than $70.

So... you can buy twice the amount of ram at -retail- for 30% less than Apple will charge you just to upgrade.

THAT is the 'mac premium'.

The other big piece of the mac premium is the comparative slowness with which apple refreshes specs combined with the complete lack of price updates. So today, at launch, the MacBook Air is a decent value. Six months from now it will be the same specs and the same price, while everything from everyone else has either gotten cheaper or better or both.

A year from now, its even worse. This is a decent site for tracking things.
http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/

Where you can see on average many products go for over a year without an update, while the price doesn't change a penny. People buying a mac pro in May 2012 were buying the same specs for the same money as they were paying for a mac pro in July 2010. At launch the Mac Pro was reasonable value. By the time it got a refresh the Mac Pro was laughably expensive for a laughably out of date product. It wouldn't be so bad if the price drifted down, or if the specs got regular bumps... but they don't.

When a major new chipset is released everyone releases their new products based on it, and blows out stock on any old stuff. Not apple. Haswell is out, great. But the macbook pro doesn't have it yet, you still get last years chipset, and at last years prices.

Moral seems to be buy a mac product shortly after launch and its good value for the money; but pay attention to the upgrades. Hard drive capacity bumps, RAM bumps, and any adapters tend to be just stupid expensive from apple.

1. Mac's -- Apple doesn't seem go give a fck about them

...except that they accounted for about 12% of revenue last quarter, and got a lot of the WWDC keynote time.

What if the patent is entirely worthwhile and then sold to a troll?...All patents = bad is not driving the conversation forward.

Wow. Did you even read? My argument was, in bold mind you, "...right now it is too easy to file for and obtain frivolous, undeserving, non-novel or obvious patents...Cut down on the number of patents issued and you cut down on the abuse that follows." Show me where it says all patents are bad.

And as for those tech companies "abusing their patents" do you have a cite for abuse versus assert?

Sure. You only had to ask.

Motorola is guilty of patent abuse.

So is Apple.

So is Google.

Even Microsoft and Nokia are joining the bandwagon.

As an aside, I find it hilarious that someone posting as an AC is accusing others of being a troll. Man up and post under your own account.

Well, you may not like Apple much longer either: http://www.macrumors.com/2013/06/25/new-apis-in-ios-7-allow-developers-to-detect-blinking-and-smiling-in-photos/

Just wanted to add: I told you so.

Start giving back some of that money, Apple.

I know it didn't get reported on Slashdot, but still, you're kidding, right? I mean, it was big news and only happened a few weeks ago.

Apple is currently engaging in the largest single share repurchase program in history , which will put $60B USD into their investors' pockets by the end of 2015. And that's on top of the $11B/year they're paying out in dividends already.

All told, they're giving back $100B by the end of 2015, which is over 2/3 of what they have in the bank right now. So, either you were unaware of that, or you think that their doing so is not a big enough step, in which case I have to ask: what would be sufficient?

As for the gravy train being over, by what metric? Their sales certainly aren't growing at the rate that Android's are, but by any measure, they are still massively successful. Their rate of sale has continued to grow incredibly fast, and their profits in PCs and mobile devices represent either a plurality or majority in each of those markets.

Start giving back some of that money, Apple.

I know it didn't get reported on Slashdot, but still, you're kidding, right? I mean, it was big news and only happened a few weeks ago.

Apple is currently engaging in the largest single share repurchase program in history , which will put $60B USD into their investors' pockets by the end of 2015. And that's on top of the $11B/year they're paying out in dividends already.

All told, they're giving back $100B by the end of 2015, which is over 2/3 of what they have in the bank right now. So, either you were unaware of that, or you think that their doing so is not a big enough step, in which case I have to ask: what would be sufficient?

As for the gravy train being over, by what metric? Their sales certainly aren't growing at the rate that Android's are, but by any measure, they are still massively successful. Their rate of sale has continued to grow incredibly fast, and their profits in PCs and mobile devices represent either a plurality or majority in each of those markets.

What's Apple famous for again? Yup, they are famous for being famous.
Well that and popularizing the graphic user interface everyone uses in the first place.

Introduced 29 years ago, by Steve Jobs.

And for having a pretty decent Unix-based operating system while Ballmer drives Microsoft off a cliff.

Introduced 13 years ago, by Steve Jobs.

And for designing the first mp3 player that the mass-market embraced.

Introduced 12 years ago, by Steve Jobs.

And for ushering in the change from feature-phones to smartphones.

Introduced 5 years ago, by Steve Jobs.

And for creating an earthquake in the tablet market such that in the future it is predicted more tablets will sell than PCs.

Introduced over 2 years ago, by Steve Jobs.

See where I'm going with this? We all know Apple's history. The point is: what insanely great innovations have they unveiled since the death of Steve Jobs?
Answer: NONE.

What's Apple famous for again? Yup, they are famous for being famous.

Well that and popularizing the graphic user interface everyone uses in the first place.

And for having a pretty decent Unix-based operating system while Ballmer drives Microsoft off a cliff.

And for designing the first mp3 player that the mass-market embraced.

And for ushering in the change from feature-phones to smartphones.

And for creating an earthquake in the tablet market such that in the future it is predicted more tablets will sell than PCs.

But yeah...they are just famous for being famous...

...Until they release a TV with a kinect-like interface running iOS. And then Sony's PS4 and the Wii U crashes and burns, (which is sort of already happening...sales on the Wii U are very poor and Sony's electronics wing isn't doing well either), while everyone is playing Angry Birds on their new Apple TV platform and we get umpteen-million articles about the "New Console Wars," which are now between Microsoft and Apple.

Of course then a couple years will go by and people will forget all of history and again claim that Apple is just famous for being famous. Such is the cycle of Slashdot.

This Apple I is signed by Woz and includes a signed letter from Steve Jobs. The previous owner also got the machine running again.

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/05/25/working-apple-1-computer-sells-for-record-auction-price-of-671400/

That's a good point. I looked and looked but can't find evidence that Gartner considered an xbox as something running "Windows". I did find this article that says that Apple TV was outselling the Xbox on a per quarter basis as late as last year. Lifetime sales of Xbox are still higher, but Xbox has been around a long while. While I don't doubt that a new Xbox release would reverse this, what I don't get is what Microsoft would possibly do with a new console that would make it worth buying. A little hardware refresh won't make any magic happen. On the other hand, there is this funny quote from the founder of Valve saying that an Apple iTunes-style walled garden gaming platform would eat Sony's, Nintendo's and Microsoft's lunch, so go figure. I can't imagine that Apple looks at the gaming space and thinks there's an opening there though, it's pretty saturated. On the other hand, there's a lot of clever little games out there for the iTunes store made by indie developers, maybe they really could create an opening for themselves.

This article has a nice graphic: http://www.macrumors.com/2013/03/21/apple-blames-high-australian-markups-for-digital-content-on-media-rights-holders/

"Earlier today, MacStories noted that markups in Australia average as much as 61.4% for music, 33.5% for movies and 25.9% for TV shows when a subset of content offerings is compared to prices in the United States once Australia's Goods and Services Tax (GST) has been accounted for. Markups for Apple's hardware products are more reasonable, with Mac, iPad and iPod prices in Australia generally falling within 10% of U.S. prices. The iPhone line, however, can go as high as a 16% markup for the iPhone 5 and 4S, while the iPhone 4 is actually slightly cheaper in Australia than it is in the United States."

Even more detail at http://www.macstories.net/stories/quantifying-the-australian-apple-tax/

Thank you for the info. Bad day or not, rest assured that I understand perfectly how frustrating the situation with the drivers must be.

I am not stupid and know how to disable it for web browsing, but many apps use older java versions.

First, I'm not sure why Slashdot chose to run this article as opposed to any of dozens of others that actually explain the situation better, not that it matters because nobody reads them. Apple is not blocking Java applications. They are blocking only the plug-in. Further, from what I've read, they were not blocking Java 6, only insecure (well, more insecure) versions of Java 7 applets. Additionally, you can get around this with just about any Web browser besides Safari. Finally, at the moment, at least, the latest version of the plug-in is once again perfectly capable of running.

For competent reporting on this subject, see, among others, the MacRumors article about the most recent block.

I don't know of many laptops supporting 30 inchers at either 2560x1600 or 4k resolution...

All Apple laptops support high resolution external monitors.

The Macbook Air (generally least graphically powerful Apple laptop) was supporting 2560x1600 on an external display way back in 2010....

Any of the modern Apple laptop line with thunderbolt should be able to manage a few displays at that resolution, or one big display if you wish.

Interestingly prior to his death Steve Jobs fought to have Mark Hurd reinstated after his ouster, arguing that a strong HP was fundamental to Silicon Valley and that without Hurd, HP would face a death spiral.

Alas, the board didn't agree (despite Jobs) and Jobs got to see his prediction come true.

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/12/20/ios-6-adoption-uptick-due-to-iphone-5-release-in-china-not-google-maps/ Ad network and analytics firm Chitika claims it has seen no significant increase in iOS 6 adoption in the U.S. and Canada. A company analyst believes the MoPub data (which was international, rather than domestic) we wrote about earlier today was affected by the recent launch of the iPhone 5 in China, rather than the release of Google Maps. This past weekend, Apple issued a press release bragging that it had sold more than two million iPhone 5 units in China over the first three days of availability.

1) She wanted to purchase multiple iPhones. There is a limit of two iPhones per person.

Actually, Apple lifted the restriction last week (Tue, 4th).http://www.macrumors.com/2012/12/04/apple-lifts-two-per-customer-order-limit-on-iphone-5/

This is just a preliminary invalidation, not the end of the road for this patent. Many patents that are in this state survive (partially or wholly). This simply is the start of a process within the USPTO.

(Relevant Post taken from Mac Rumors discussion on this, this is not my post, but relevant for this discussion): http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=16445804&postcount=39

Folks -- a preliminary invalidation is a non-event. Every patent you apply for is almost always initially rejected. It is the way the patent examiner pushes the burden back on the inventor. They reject, you appeal, they reject, you appeal, patent issues.

Typically the findings for an initial patent application are really weak and easy to overcome.

The re-examination process is the same way. The patent examiner places himself in the position of the person trying to shoot the patent down. That is because the other party to communicate with is the original inventor and obviously they are going to push for maintaining the application. So in order to do proper due diligence, the examiner needs to find reasons to refute the patent, and then there is an appeal, and then possibly another invalidation, and another appeal and then the patent likely holds in some form.

In short... nothing to see here... move along.

I don't know the actual percentage, but I'd bet 99.9% of all patents for which a reexamination was requested receive a preliminary invalidation. And I don't think the patent office can refuse to do a reexamination on a patent.

Full Discussion here: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1503872&page=1

This is just a preliminary invalidation, not the end of the road for this patent. Many patents that are in this state survive (partially or wholly). This simply is the start of a process within the USPTO.

(Relevant Post taken from Mac Rumors discussion on this, this is not my post, but relevant for this discussion): http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=16445804&postcount=39

Folks -- a preliminary invalidation is a non-event. Every patent you apply for is almost always initially rejected. It is the way the patent examiner pushes the burden back on the inventor. They reject, you appeal, they reject, you appeal, patent issues.

Typically the findings for an initial patent application are really weak and easy to overcome.

The re-examination process is the same way. The patent examiner places himself in the position of the person trying to shoot the patent down. That is because the other party to communicate with is the original inventor and obviously they are going to push for maintaining the application. So in order to do proper due diligence, the examiner needs to find reasons to refute the patent, and then there is an appeal, and then possibly another invalidation, and another appeal and then the patent likely holds in some form.

In short... nothing to see here... move along.

I don't know the actual percentage, but I'd bet 99.9% of all patents for which a reexamination was requested receive a preliminary invalidation. And I don't think the patent office can refuse to do a reexamination on a patent.

Full Discussion here: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1503872&page=1

Yeah, even the Apple rumor sites are reporting shorter lines. Which is to be expected, since the iPhone is much more popular than the iPad in terms of sales and there wasn't as much pent-up demand as what you'd see when you've waited a year to release a new product, but even so, I'm guessing it's less than what Apple was anticipating. It remains to be seen, however, just how this will reflect on total sales through the holiday season. It may very well be a little foreshadowing in the story.

MacRumors wrote about an internal clash with Scott Forstall back in September, and now he quits in October... very interesting. Oddly enough that article also mentions iCal which is what AC was talking about.

According to the report, Apple's iOS chief Scott Forstall has long been a proponent of incorporating skeuomorphic features in the company's software, with Steve Jobs having supported and even originated that design direction for Apple's products. But others such as hardware guru Jonathan Ive find the inclusion of such features distasteful, and Apple's designers have reportedly been divided into camps over which direction to take Apple's products.

NFC technology and PassBooks' technology are orthogonal to each other.

In other words, NFC can work with, or without, Apple's PassBook, and Apple's PassBook can work with, or without, NFC. And no, you don't even need to take my word for it, you can just take Apples' words instead.

Apple has recently won patents for using NFC on an iPhone to control home appliances, using NFC to control iWallet transactions with parental controls, and using NFC for checking-in with an airline (at the time, it called it iTravel, but that same airline ticketing information can be found within PassBook).

You might not like Apple's products (and neither do I), but that doesn't mean that we're not in the post-PC era. Just look at the numbers. Apple's iPhone/iPad revenue dwarfs their Mac revenue. In fact, the iPhone brings in more revenue to Apple than the entirety of what Microsoft sells.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/08/19/apples-iphone-is-now-worth-more-than-all-of-microsoft/

Yes, part of that is due to high profit margins. But it's also due to the fact that a significant amount of computing is now done on iDevices and their clones, including Android devices. This is exactly what Jobs was predicting with his idea of the post-PC era, and he was right.

The concept of a post-PC era is a useful one, and Apple demonstrated its usefulness by making tens of billions of dollars from the idea. But so what if there is always going to be a non-zero number of traditional PCs? It's a pointless argument and doesn't have any useful implications.

Nope. Simultaneous voice (CDMA) and data (LTE) on Verizon/Sprint requires separate antennas. And Apple, in their idiotic fetish to make things as thin as possible, at the expense of useful features, declined to include that extra antenna. The Android phones that support simultaneous voice and data on Verizon & Sprint all have the necessary extra antenna to do it.

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/13/verizon-iphone-5-will-not-offer-simultaneous-voice-and-data/

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/08/13/apple-has-licensed-ios-design-patents-to-microsoft-agreement-bans-cloning/ And highly doubt they are under duress from Microsoft.

OK, us retina MacBook Pro buyers have been struggling for a couple of months now with the fact that Apple used two suppliers, LG and Samsung, to provide the screens for the rMBP. Unfortunately, the LG screens develop image retention or ghosting fairly quickly after purchase, and Apple has been all over the map in either replacing or refusing to replace these defective screens.

Us being niche in comparison, I suspect we won't see anything like that letter ourselves.

Apple discussions thread (you will need an Apple ID to access this, I think):
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4034848

MacRumors
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1424416

Apple Insider (post launch day)
http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/06/25/retina_display_image_retention_reported_by_new_macbook_pro_owners.html

So, how is Apple taking feedback? You can't just go to the map, click on a POI, and say "edit."

Actually, that is EXACTLY how you do it (and that method is in addition to the "report a problem" button on the options screen that others have already mentioned).

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/20/swiss-federal-railways-says-apple-copied-its-iconic-railway-clock/

No, there is plenty to see here.

Maps and navigation are a big deal on smartphones. Phone calls are their most important function, but Internet browsing and maps/navigation vie for the second most important feature.

And no, Google Maps doesn't even begin to approach this failure. Not even close. Aside from the horrific rendering, missing roads, and an inability to find what should be obvious searches, it doesn't even attempt to duplicate useful functionaly present in Google Maps. Public transportation? Use 3rd-party apps. Walking directions? Lol who walks these days?

Apple fans agree.

It's their first foray into the mapping world. Google has a huge head start, setting the bar pretty high. For my area it's been spot on for accuracy. And it was nice to know they acknowledged the problem and made a statement that they were working to fix inaccuracies people are reporting.

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/20/apple-issues-statement-over-day-1-maps-glitches-maps-team-under-lockdown-to-fix-issues/