kjackson2012

Frankly, Tim Cook should shut down the entire Apple Maps division. Who in their right mind is going to use Apple Maps at this point?

Try searching "Pier 39 San Francisco". The query can't be any more specific, and it's the most iconic location for tourists, and Apple Maps will bring you to a pretty shady area of town, only a mile or two away from Hunter's Point, one of the more violent areas of SF.

Finally, I'm happy that this app is released. I refused to use Apple Maps any further.

The one major drawback from the Original Google Maps app is that the original one did an excellent job showing every single street name on even a deep zoom level. The new Google Maps one does a poor job on this and you have to hunt back and forth to figure out what zoom level you need to get to in order to read the street name. Once they get this right, things will be back to normal.

Can they request chargebacks through their respective credit card companies? That seems like it's the easiest way to get their money back, although it's a bit old at this point.

Good luck, hopefully you find the experience that you're looking for!

San Francisco has only been considered a hub for startups in the past few years. Before that, very few companies made their home in the city, and it was generally down in the South Bay or the Peninsula. Before Twitter, et. al started moving to SOMA, it was mainly banks, and retail companies like the Gap, Red Envelope, etc that were up here.

Ever since startups have decided to move to SOMA, the rents have skyrocketed, from 2000/month for a 1 br to over $3000, all in the span of maybe 18 months.

I never said it was astounding those are your words not mine. Now tell me how many of your parents middle class friends have been able to save $1500/month consistently for 25 years and have 1.5m in the bank. Unless you are in the upper class, I'll bet none of them.

The point is the above poster gave ludicrous manipulative figures saying they "lost" 400k. It's a great example of how people can sit back and be great armchair quarterbacks and pooh-pooh things using flawed mathematical assumptions but when you look at things in the real world, it all falls apart. He says based on his numbers they "lost" 400k meanwhile they have 1.5m in the bank. You say all it takes is to save 1500/month over 25 years every year and ill be willing to bet no one you know has been able to save 1/3 of their pretax income consistently every month for 25 years.

Housing is generally a great passive way for people to save for retirement. Nothing is guaranteed of course. Many people lost their savings because of the Housing bust. But that is a 5 year period of people relative to decades of people who actually prospered from it.

You can use whatever math to rationalize your theoretical position on the subject. However, my parents who were a single income middle class family earning no more than 60,000 at their peak now has 1.5m in the bank.

The idea they "lost" 410,000 when they have $ 1.5m cold hard cash is mind boggling in your own self delusion.

My parents bought their house 25 years ago 250k and sold it for 1.5m. Now they are renting a 2 br apt for 1500/month. Their housing cost will be roughly 25k/yr and they are millionaires. The idea that the article talks about how you can't be long the housing market is just dumb. His analogy doesn't work and to say that you can't benefit from house prices going up is dumb.