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As will Apple Maps in a few years. Good to have some decent alternatives out there. I know, people will argue with me that Apple is the evil one here...

• Karunamon 14y ago
  Hmm, mature, tested, and working platform now, or broken and weak platform which may be better "in a few years". Difficult decision.
  • erichocean 14y ago
    I see you're talking about Android circa 2009. We're talking about Apple's new Maps app.
    • Karunamon 14y ago
      Very funny. Unfortunately I was talking about the Maps application, of which Android's offer is currently better in every conceivable way.
      • arrrg 14y ago
        It's not better in every conceivable way. Traffic info in Germany kind of sucks from Google, it's the best you can get (TomTom's traffic info) in Apple's app. Extremely detailed, extremely current.
        • Karunamon 14y ago
          What use is the traffic data if the underlying map/POI data can't plot a decent route to overlay traffic info on?
          • arrrg 14y ago
            Funny you should say that. Turn-by-turn (and especially the walking directions) kind of suck on Google Maps in Germany. It sends you on very weird routes. Turn-by-turn in Apple's maps app is kinda great. No weird routes and such. TomTom is pretty great in Germany. I can't speak for any other countries. The POIs do suck and some labels are seriously out of place. Also, search sometimes tends to send you to weird places. Those are serious inexcusable issues, but the whole turn-by-turn part is pretty great and the actual maps are pretty comprehensive (at least in Germany).
  • shawnc 14y ago
    It's odd to me that Google was allowed to go through growing pains, but another company attempting to do the same be criticized for it. Seriously - would you expect Google to make a different decision if the roles were reversed? Re: your reply below. Well, that I believe. It had better be since it's had those years to perfect itself. And I can understand why people would be unhappy with the switch away from Google Maps on iOS - if it were as good as that on Android. Which is wasn't, and sounds like would have been an ordeal to make it so. Google didn't make the app, Apple did. Why put the effort into perfecting the Google Maps app, when they could put that same (more obviously) effort into perfecting their own?
    • problemdomain 14y ago
      Google Maps was not rolled out to a hundred million preexisting devices in an abysmal state to replace a working solution, and for its entire existence has competed in a landscape where it has had major advantages over competitors, either on the basis of quality, or on the basis of price. If I crafted a questionable replica of Windows 3.11 and went out and installed it on a hundred million computers that had been running Windows 7, would you defend me because Microsoft had to go through growing pains, too? "Apple Maps" is late to the party, and forgot its clothes. Why be surprised at the response?
  • rimantas 14y ago
    You know, maps are er… location dependent. What may be mature working and tested in SF can happen not to be that polished elsewhere. Many (most?) of those declaring Apple's doom and gloom because of the new maps usually forget that there are iOS users outside the SF area and outside of US, and Apple maps there can be on par if not better.
    • ZeroGravitas 14y ago
      The only countries I've heard that have better Maps in iOS6 are North Korea and those that made up the Former Yugoslavia. The UK in particular seems a mess and the US seems to be the best supported by far in terms of location data. What one's have you heard are better? China? The one that some blogger thought Google wasn't using the better data source that Apple used, except it turned out they were and it was basically placebo?