Australian Police Warn That Apple Maps Could Get Someone Killed

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday December 9, 2012 @09:55PM from the path-less-traveled dept.

First time accepted submitter jsherring writes "Police in Victoria, Australia warn that Apple's glitch-filled Maps app could get someone killed, after motorists looking for the Victorian city of Mildura were instead guided to a wilderness area. Relying on Apple Maps to navigate through rural Australia seems rather foolish but it has become common practice to rely on GPS navigation. Besides reverting to google maps, perhaps Apple should provide strong warnings to use other navigation sources if navigating to remote locations."

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Re:The end of Apple? by the+grace+of+R'hllor · 2012-12-10 02:13 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Apple is dying. They've got three phones on offer now (the ideas used to be that you'd go buy "The iPhone") and four tablets, of which one is in a format that just doesn't fill an apple niche and two of them were released without much fanfare VERY shortly after "The New iPad".

I think they're flooding the market with products in order to do as big a cash grab as possible and then bunker down in the coming lean years until they can find a new Steve Jobs.