Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: MobilityGoogle’s official Maps app for the iPhone, which works on the iPod Touch and on the iPad as an iPhone app, has surpassed a whopping 10 million downloads in under the first 48 hours of its release.
Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: MobilityAlthough I certainly do remember Google Maps Navigation (and other GPS units) sending people up the garden path (and near un-driveable dirt tracks) at times after it first launched, I certainly don’t remember the police issuing a warning against its use, as has happened in the Australian state of Victoria with Apple’s iOS 6 maps.
Sure, most have the world has been utilizing Google’s free turn-by-turn navigation via Google Maps for years, but until now users south of the border have been left out of the action.
Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy LogicApple’s intelligent assistant, Siri, remains a beta in iOS 6, but there’s a new undeclared beta in Apple’s stable: Apple Maps, thus far clearly stunningly not on par with the Google Maps app it has replaced.
Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy LogicApple’s VP of mapping, Richard Williamson, has reported been given the flick by an Apple senior veep, Eddy Cue, just months after his former boss, Scott Forstall, was installed into Apple’s former executive rubber “waiting” room.
Apple and Google’s Maps rift on iOS 6 was apparently caused by an inability by the two companies to see eye-to-eye on one key feature: turn-by-turn navigation.
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: MobilityGoogle has added turn-by-turn cycling directions to Google Maps for Android.
Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: MobilityIn a rare move, Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, has issued a letter “on maps” where he states “We are extremely sorry for the frustration this has caused our customers” and promises the company is “doing everything we can to make Maps better”.
Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy LogicNokia’s “Here Maps” for iOS has arrived, but with lower res graphics for maps and satellite imagery than was expected, and a lack of detail like house numbers, some think Nokia’s Here Map is crap, while others think it’s better than Apple’s Maps app.
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