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Do you actually use Siri or Maps? Because I find your complaints about them absurd, I use both of these services every day and they work marvelously.

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Do you? apple maps just led us 18 minutes out of the way just this weekend. It's apparently incapable of leading people to restaurants just off 80 in Auburn, CA. When we gave up and used decent software -- ie google maps -- it got us straight there.

I had that issue with google maps. The problem is that this is all anecdata. We need someone perverse enough to trial both. What a chore.

And other times, Google Maps leads me astray or takes me down inappropriate roads while Bing Maps/Nokia Maps works just fine. It's almost like they're all getting their mapping data independently and as such have their own unique strengths and weaknesses.

The name of the local university is wrong in Apple Maps. It's using the 30 year old name. I've sent them corrections (via the maps app) a couple of times, over 1.5 years ago. No change.

Try again. I fid the same, with no luck. However my recent flags have been actioned.

To be fair, I have sent corrections to Google Maps and it took them two years and talking to a friend in Maps before they corrected it. Also, this was for Google telling me to take a left where no left existed when driving from the South Bay into San Francisco.

It doesn't even get my home address right, and I live in the middle of Sweden's fourth largest city.

for what it's worth, i stopped actually using them because they both suck terribly even before you compare them to their Google alternatives.

maps has notoriously bad data.

Better start giving it a look again with the trend Google's services are heading in.

There is mapping data, and then there is place data (where a business is located).

Google and Apple must use the same mapping data, because I see the same errors in both apps. Of course with Google, after I report the error it gets fixed. I can’t say the same for Apple. And Navteq* has more detailed and accurate data than either of them.

What Google has is superb place data. Apple has… Yelp.

*Assuming you have recent Navteq data. Not the nav system in your car that hasn’t been updated in 2 years.

Something's happened with Apple place data in the UK in the last month or two - it's suddenly become... OK. It was a laughable joke before.

You never run into the "I'm really sorry but I can't handle your request right now" message for Siri? That is just a total killer to that service, because it takes 15-20 seconds just to error out. And sometimes when you try again, it happens again. And then you ask yourself, "why am I using Siri anyways?"

Yes, I'd say about 20-30% of the time I use Siri it times out or hangs either when it parses what I say or trying to resolve it. A few weeks ago Maps lead me to a parking lot when getting directions to a restaurant. In Mountain View.

They work in the US ( and perhaps some other "first world" countries ) but in places like India, data for even big cities is practically non existent while Google Maps has everything ( and up to date ).

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