The Register® — Biting the hand that feeds IT

Feeds

iOS 6 maps can't find Sydney Apple Store

Google gets location for Sydney mothership right, Bing doesn't know it exists

Regcast training : Hyper-V 3.0, VM high availability and disaster recovery

Apple's new maps app for iOS 6 can't find one of its own stores in Sydney, Australia.

Reg reader @Rob2081 tweeted the image below that shows Apple thinks it Sydney flagship store is on the eastern side of George Street, one of the city's main shopping precincts.

A map from iOS 6 showing the Sydney Apple store on the wrong side of the street

Apple's results indicate its store resides in a building occupied by, among other tenants, Australia's dominant telecommunications company Telstra and its own flagship retail store.

Telstra does resell the iPhone, but can in no way be considered in any way the equal of an official Apple outpost.

Apple's own store, for what it is worth, is actually on the western side of George St, as your correspondent can attest from having visited on several occasions and as is verified by the image below or this search.

Google maps shows the correct location for Sydney's Apple store

For what it is worth, searches on Bing Maps for terms including "Apple Store Sydney" and "Apple Store George Street Sydney" produced no useful results. Apple operates two other stores within a seven kilometre radius (by road). Bing found only the most distant, at Bondi Junction, and did not return a result for the Broadway store The Reg visited last Friday to observe shoppers queueing for the iPhone 5. ®

Regcast training : Hyper-V 3.0, VM high availability and disaster recovery

Anonymous Coward

You're using it wrong

It's not showing where things are, it's showing the best place to view them from.

Apple have always focused more on appearance than what's inside, so why shouldn't their maps show the best place to admire their stores from?

58
1

But it's prettier

See that cute page curl in the bottom right corner? You got your reason iSheep feel superior to Googles maps right there.

Apple are just reinforcing their style over substance mantra. Christ, if the fanbois didn't mind not being able to make calls during antennagate and were happy to take the blame, this is a walk in the park. If you can find it....

38
6
Anonymous Coward

Given it's focus on bars and coffee shops it seems no wonder it can't find its way home.

22
1

More from The Register

1,000 O2 staff chose redundancy over Capita
Betrayal, or just decent terms?
Google launches broadband balloons, radio astronomy frets
A careless Loon could blind the square kilometre array
 breaking news
Pttow! Ofcom kicks hams out of MoD bands
Geet off my land, you, you ... 'secondary user'
 breaking news
Now you can use your phone instead of your wallet at the ATM, too
Blimey, these little paper towels out of the vending machine are really expensive
 breaking news
UK.gov's £530m bumpkin broadband rollout: 'Train crash waiting to happen'
Whitehall whispers of damning watchdog report next month
 breaking news
MySpace zaps millions of teens' tearful rants, causes wave of angst
'Your crappy redesign SUCKS, I wanna read my blogs' screech users
 breaking news
Microsoft Office 365 on iPhone NOW: No, we're not making this up
Word, Excel, Powerpoint for your pocket-stroker
 breaking news
EU signs off on eCall emergency-phone-in-every-car plan
GPS and a mobe in every car - do you suppose the NSA would fancy that?