I miss Steve Jobs.

I never thought I'd ever say that, but then the iOS6 happened, and with it its horrific Maps feature from a 90's GPS company.

A lifelong New Yorker, I still double check the map on my phone whenever I take the subway. Now, when I ask my phone for subway directions, it suggests I buy an app. It used to give me directions. It used to give me great directions. Now, that's over. Now, I have to wait until I get home and then buy an app.

Had Steve Jobs been alive, I suspect that this would have been an awkward conversation between he and his programmer:

Programmer: And then when they click transit, we give them suggestions for apps they should buy. We no longer give them transit directions that they got on the old phone.

Steve Jobs: Are you fucking kidding me?! I get pissed off about fonts, and you're taking away a key feature from one of our most used apps?! Fucking finish this app or I'll throw you off a Chinese factory roof.

Meanwhile, Tim Cook's conversation went a little differently:

Programmer: And then when they click transit, we give them suggestions for apps they should buy. We no longer give them transit directions that they got on the old phone.

Tim Cook: Great! We'll make more money that way.

In Steve Jobs' Apple, our wallets were pilfered, but at least we got rocked to sleep. Tim Cook is taking a more old school, schoolyard bully approach to taking our money, and I'm just not into it.