Japanese media reaction to Apple’s WWDC21 Keynote was a big ‘meh’. Not surprising as many iOS 15 features won’t be available for Japanese iPhone users who are well acquainted with […]
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Look Around expands to Ishikawa and Sendai, Indoor Airport Maps for Haneda and Fukuoka
Apple Maps Japan was all over the place this week with Look Around expansions, and airport Indoor Map additions. Did Apple do all this for WWDC21 keynote bragging points? It […]
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WWDC21 Apple Maps Japan Wish List
Apple Maps has settled into a comfortable glacial groove. Improvements are announced at WWDC but actual service rollouts are literally all over the map. Smaller markets like the UK get […]
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iOS 14.5 Apple Maps Japan in-house place ratings
In advance of a rumored iOS 14.5 rollout of Apple Maps in-house point of interest (POI) ratings for the USA, the feature went live today in Japan for iOS 14.5 […]
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Look Around for Hiroshima disappears and reappears
Now you see it, now you don’t. The Apple Maps Japan story has been consistent…consistently flawed and second rate. Look Around was rolled out for the (now postponed) Tokyo Olympics […]
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Apple Maps Japan Look Around Expands to Hiroshima, Fukuoka, Takamatsu, Nara
Apple Maps vans and walkers were busy in Japan from May to October 2020 and the first cites to receive Look Around from the data sets are: Hiroshima, Fukuoka and […]