Q: Does Apple have noth­ing but con­tempt for its users?

A: Yes, Apple’s evil. When Apple barred Flash from iOS, Flash was the best and only way to play .swf files. Apple’s video alter­na­tive, H.264, wasn’t nearly as widely used. Thus Apple’s solu­tion was “infe­rior” and appeared to be against its own users’ inter­ests. Sheer cor­po­rate greed! Tril­lion words have been writ­ten about just how mis­guided Apple was in deny­ing its users the glory of Flash on iOS. Well, Flash is now dead on mobile. And yet the Earth’s obliq­uity of the eclip­tic is still about 23.4°. We seemed to have sur­vived that one.

There’s no ques­tion Maps in iOS6 is worse at dis­play­ing rel­e­vant data on a global scale than Maps did in iOS5 and pre­vi­ous. And peo­ple are right­fully upset since Apple talked up Maps as a major new fea­ture in iOS6.

But to think that Apple isn’t work­ing hard to improve and make it bet­ter than Google Maps, which has been around for 8 years, is naïve.

For now you can use maps​.google​.com on your iPhone if you need a more detailed map, which isn’t as good but should hold you over for the next few months until Apple gets it’s act together.