Are We There Yet?

I love technology, especially when they make things better. Mapping software and devices, for example. Used to be, we used a map (yes, a... gasp! paper map), or asked Gert for directions at the corner drugstore in order to get properly and completely lost.

"Bob, don't they take a left at the second light?"

"No, Gert, that was before they put in the new overpass."

"Oh, yes, that's right. So, you go to the first light, then take a short jog next to where the filling station used to be..."

Now, we can get lost the high-tech way. The future is so much better now.

"Recalculating... "

"That does not compute, Will Robinson... "

In keeping with that, Apple just released their own map app named, in an astounding leap of creativity.... Maps, which could stand for More Aggravating Personal Software.

Containing several new features, including 3-D (wonder if you have to wear the glasses?), and more bugs than an ant colony, Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, apologized online, and essentially told folks to use other mapping programs, "... like Bing, MapQuest, and Waze" while they figure out who to blame.

I don't know. Sounds pretty good to me. On their next release, they'll have a more personable voice system, sounding something like this... "No, sweetie, you take a left down where the barber shop used to be."