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Profile of Apple's Eddy Cue, Who Oversees Company's Internet Software and Services (theinformation.com)
The Information (paywalled) reports: In 2012, Mr. Cue took on even more responsibility when Mr. Cook fired Scott Forstall, then a senior vice president of the iOS software powering iPhones. Mr. Forstall had overseen the launch of Apple Maps, which was panned due to misplaced landmarks, distorted satellite images and other problems. With Mr. Forstall gone, Mr. Cue took over Apple Maps and Siri, the intelligent assistant that launched as a major feature of the iPhone 4S the prior year. From the moment he gained responsibility for Siri, Mr. Cue seemed to lack much interest in it, according to people who worked on the project. When Siri team members presented Mr. Cue with technical data around the performance of the assistant -- an area of frequent criticism of the technology -- Mr. Cue appeared bored and seemed to fall asleep in at least two meetings, said a former Apple employee who was present.
[...] One obstacle for Mr. Cue, in his meetings with television executives, was that he didn't encounter the kind of desperation that made it possible for Apple to sign all the major record labels, then being ravaged by piracy, to iTunes. Cord-cutting -- people dumping their cable and satellite subscriptions -- had not yet emerged as a problem. "Apple kept wanting to use the same playbook, and it's not going to work in the video world," said a former Apple executive who worked on video. Around four years ago, Mr. Cue oversaw development of a version of Apple TV that could integrate with cable services, with the goal of replacing set-top boxes distributed by the likes of Comcast and Time Warner Cable, said a former Apple employee. The Apple TV box -- with a coaxial cable port for plugging into cable networks and software to handle the combination of live and on-demand video -- never launched due to disagreements with the potential cable partners. Apple engineers involved in the product were dispirited, said a former employee. A non-paywalled source.
[...] One obstacle for Mr. Cue, in his meetings with television executives, was that he didn't encounter the kind of desperation that made it possible for Apple to sign all the major record labels, then being ravaged by piracy, to iTunes. Cord-cutting -- people dumping their cable and satellite subscriptions -- had not yet emerged as a problem. "Apple kept wanting to use the same playbook, and it's not going to work in the video world," said a former Apple executive who worked on video. Around four years ago, Mr. Cue oversaw development of a version of Apple TV that could integrate with cable services, with the goal of replacing set-top boxes distributed by the likes of Comcast and Time Warner Cable, said a former Apple employee. The Apple TV box -- with a coaxial cable port for plugging into cable networks and software to handle the combination of live and on-demand video -- never launched due to disagreements with the potential cable partners. Apple engineers involved in the product were dispirited, said a former employee. A non-paywalled source.
And you think "I don't care about cities with less than a million people crammed in it" is a healthy way to think?
And I'm also talking about other countries, where there's maybe only a fww big cities and the majority of the population does not live inside these crammed megapolis.
Hell, Apple Maps doesn't work in major cities in the US outside of California. I once tried to use Siri and Apple Maps to get directions to a mall that contained an Apple Store, and it couldn't find the mall. I figured maybe Apple would have special-cased their own stores and tried directions to the Apple Store directly: nope. Never heard of it. Eventually I had to settle on a random store located within the mall that Siri would understand. That got me directions to a hotel across town while displaying my destination as if it were the mall's address. This was in a suburb of a major US city - just one on the east coast, not in California. (East coast US still has the remnants of old city design, so areas with no grid, streets with bends in them, and other things that Apple Maps just can't handle.)
This also wasn't the only time I've asked for directions and had them lead somewhere other than the destination, despite the address for the destination being displayed correctly on the map. This is just a "thing" Apple Maps does. Still, by the way. At launch and in 2018.
Apple's main problem these days is that they don't care to listen about problems and ignore all feedback. I've reported multiple issues with Apple Maps. Not a one has even been resolved.
I have no idea why you had to add your anti-Trump point of view into your comment, most of the world does not really care about your orange-tinted asshat-in-chief.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is more powerful than the RDF ever was. It's really quite amazing to watch. It's kind of amazing how the Democrats have managed to make Trump seem like the reasonable person in the room. If you're not in the US, it really is that bad: Trump really is more reasonable than the left in the US.