On one hand, this is a beta product, so perhaps understandable that they're not supporting all platforms out of the gate.
On the other hand, if you're serious about getting your application tested, people running open source browsers and operating systems are going to provide the most thorough testing and detailed problem reports.
Why would I want to be bombarded with problem reports on items that I could find myself once I add it to my testing matrix? Beta testing is to suss out bugs that my internal testers haven’t caught.
People are so use to Google’s bastardizing the term “beta” that they forgot what beta testing traditionally is
Even for a beta this is clunky and practically unusable compared to Google Maps. It's pretty obvious that Apple still has a very long way to go to offer a competitive maps product. Google is just so far ahead of whatever this beta is.
For example, I centered the map on my location in Los Angeles, CA and then clicked search for "Gas Stations", and it promptly reposition the map and gave me all the gas stations in San Jose, CA, a city hundreds of miles away. WTF? This is probably one of the most common use cases and they can't get it right.
I managed to drop a pin somehow, not sure, and now I can't remove it and the map is stuck focusing on this random pin point. I don't see any UI for removing the dropped pin. I can't move the pin, or do anything to change where the pin is. Ugh.
> For example, I centered the map on my location in Los Angeles, CA and then clicked search for "Gas Stations", and it promptly reposition the map and gave me all the gas stations in San Jose, CA, a city hundreds of miles away. WTF?
I'm not seeing that behavior at all. When I type gas stations in search, it adds a 'nearby'. It will slightly reposition the window if there are matches on the edges, and the search goes into the history with the closest local area (e.g. the suburb I'm centered over).
It is an active beta though, so I suppose it could differ browser by browser, day by day.
>For example, I centered the map on my location in Los Angeles, CA and then clicked search for "Gas Stations", and it promptly reposition the map and gave me all the gas stations in San Jose, CA, a city hundreds of miles away. WTF? This is probably one of the most common use cases and they can't get it right.
This happens all the time in the official iOS app. If you search for a local restaurant that's not in their database, they send you to the closest sounding one even if its on the other side of the planet.
On the other hand, if you're serious about getting your application tested, people running open source browsers and operating systems are going to provide the most thorough testing and detailed problem reports.