{"id":21617,"date":"2024-01-24T17:15:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T14:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/21617\/a-single-ios-app-glitch\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T17:15:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T14:15:22","slug":"a-single-ios-app-glitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=21617","title":{"rendered":"A single iOS app glitch may have cost an Android user almost $8000"},"content":{"rendered":"

A single iOS app glitch may have cost an Android user almost $8000\u060c<\/p>\n

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Here's a man who will never lay a finger on an iPhone or anything that runs iOS.<\/p>\n

Meet Chris Pyatt. No, not the former world middleweight champion boxer from England. <\/p>\n

The hero of this story is a man<\/a> named Chris Pyatt, operator of Pum's Kitchen Thai restaurant in Queensland, Australia. The anti-hero, as you might have guessed, is called iOS.<\/p>\n

The story revolves around Pyatt's small business in Australia that was mistakenly labeled as “permanently closed” by Apple Maps, as well as a mislocation (via AppleInsider<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Out of the blue, a regular customer recently asked Chris Pyatt why the restaurant closed its doors. Imagine his face hearing this question, while his restaurant was still operational, with no intention of closing. The regular customer said that according to Apple Maps, the restaurant was “permanently closed.”<\/p>\n

That's when Chris realized why the restaurant had seen a “significant decline” in turnover of around AU$12,000 ($7,877) over the past few months. \u201cIt\u2019s our livelihood,\u201d said the restaurant owner, who has worked with his wife Pum on the project for nearly a decade.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have no idea when this change occurred,\u201d Pyatt said, but upon closer inspection we saw a \u201csudden and drastic change in customer behavior\u201d starting late November and throughout the month of December.<\/p>\n

The couple \u2013 Pyatt and his wife \u2013 use Android smartphones and Windows PCs, so they could not and did not see the Apple Maps problem. Pyatt contacted Apple customer service, but was reportedly told he could not receive support or help because he was not an Apple customer. <\/p>\n

Not closing wasn't the restaurant's only problem, as they also found the location to be incorrect. \u201cWe lost a customer because he called us to check the location, then said he was using Apple Maps and didn't show up,\u201d Pyatt explained.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A single iOS app glitch may have cost an Android user almost $8000\u060c Here's a man who will never lay a finger on an iPhone or anything that runs iOS. Meet Chris Pyatt. No, not the former world middleweight champion boxer from England. The hero of this story is a man named Chris Pyatt, operator […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[396,277,1855,7244,346,280,844],"class_list":["post-21617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-app","tag-cost","tag-glitch","tag-ios","tag-single","tag-user"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21619,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21617\/revisions\/21619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}