Hi! You may already talked about that, but is there a way to set this App by default instead of the Apple app?
the best feature of the app is that people might quit their whining on the forums about the maps app for at least a few days.
This Google Maps app ALONE is worth the price of admission of the iPhone 5.
Apple should really be kicking back some of the profits they make off iOS now back to Google.
If Google acted like Apple, they would have kept Google Maps exclusive to Android. Instead, they allowed iOS users have it for FREE.
Google supports customer choice whereas Apple believes in creating a monopoly.
Google believes in offering the best user experience despite jeopardizing potential revenues whereas Apple believes in protecting potential revenues despite jeopardizing the user experience.
Bravo Google! Thanks for making our iPhones complete again.
If only Google had provided these features a little bit sooner those poor people in Australia may have never been in such danger...
That's fine. But since then, the Jobs' wonder boy, mr Forstall, has sat on iOS and let the competition catch up. It's too bad.
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Google wanted things in return
https://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/2...ps-driven-by-turn-by-turn-navigation-dispute/
Australian police issued the same warning for Google Maps users, but link-bait stories tend to favor Apple, so I'm sure you haven't heard of this
Police warn of safety concerns from Google Maps
"Google admits iOS app is superior than Android app" (design).
WTF is Google smoking? I'm a total Android fanboy (own a Nexus 4 and Note 2) and just cannot understand why Google is handing over their amazing app to iOS.
Yes, ad revenue, blablabla, but all these elated iPhone fans are the same people who probably were disgruntled with maps for iOS6 and probably weighed a switch to Android.
Now, Google has locked them into iOS...they are all like "wow, google! thanks for giving us the best map and navigation app ever!"
Translation - never getting an Android phone - lost conversion opportunity.
Again, I get market share and all that jazz, but google is just giving away the farm. Strange, really. (again, I understand search revenue, etc).
But at the end of the day, my Note 2 (primary) and Nexus 4 (spare, weekend and stuff) smokes my iPhone. No contest.
No troll.
...I can deal with typing in the first few letters of where I want to get to and having it pop up instantly.
Well at least now older iPhones can get a quality turn-by-turn.
"Google admits iOS app is superior than Android app" (design).
WTF is Google smoking? I'm a total Android fanboy (own a Nexus 4 and Note 2) and just cannot understand why Google is handing over their amazing app to iOS.
Yes, ad revenue, blablabla, but all these elated iPhone fans are the same people who probably were disgruntled with maps for iOS6 and probably weighed a switch to Android.
Now, Google has locked them into iOS...they are all like "wow, google! thanks for giving us the best map and navigation app ever!"
Translation - never getting an Android phone - lost conversion opportunity.
Again, I get market share and all that jazz, but google is just giving away the farm. Strange, really. (again, I understand search revenue, etc).
What an awkward turn of events for Samsung. So do they now have to remove that anti-iPhone ad talking down about iOS Maps in Australia now?
The scrolling is so damn jagged. I hope this fix this, because it is terrible to use.
I beg to differ. IOS is the clear big winner here. IOS users did not have access to the Google turn by turn navigation before Apple kicked them out of IOS 6. Now IOS user has access to the feature. The price is 3 months of confusion and not having access to Google map. But at the end, they get a better product.
Apple is also a winner here too. Google map in IOS is at least as good as in Android now. And the price is a hit on corporate image and bruised ego for the Apple software development team. They will have a very hard time to live down the map problem and all the trash talking until Apple fix the map problem. In a year, customers won't remember much about this problem and Apple does not have to give in to Google demand of either branding in the map or Google latitude.
You should be happy with Google because Google is open! It's no Evil!
If it refuses to release maps for iOS, doesn't it look more like Apple, the company that you hate?
"Google admits iOS app is superior than Android app" (design).
WTF is Google smoking? I'm a total Android fanboy (own a Nexus 4 and Note 2) and just cannot understand why Google is handing over their amazing app to iOS.
Yes, ad revenue, blablabla, but all these elated iPhone fans are the same people who probably were disgruntled with maps for iOS6 and probably weighed a switch to Android.
Now, Google has locked them into iOS...they are all like "wow, google! thanks for giving us the best map and navigation app ever!"
Translation - never getting an Android phone - lost conversion opportunity.
Again, I get market share and all that jazz, but google is just giving away the farm. Strange, really. (again, I understand search revenue, etc).
But at the end of the day, my Note 2 (primary) and Nexus 4 (spare, weekend and stuff) smokes my iPhone. No contest.
No troll.
"Google admits iOS app is superior than Android app" (design).
WTF is Google smoking? I'm a total Android fanboy (own a Nexus 4 and Note 2) and just cannot understand why Google is handing over their amazing app to iOS.
Yes, ad revenue, blablabla, but all these elated iPhone fans are the same people who probably were disgruntled with maps for iOS6 and probably weighed a switch to Android.
Now, Google has locked them into iOS...they are all like "wow, google! thanks for giving us the best map and navigation app ever!"
Translation - never getting an Android phone - lost conversion opportunity.
Again, I get market share and all that jazz, but google is just giving away the farm. Strange, really. (again, I understand search revenue, etc).
But at the end of the day, my Note 2 (primary) and Nexus 4 (spare, weekend and stuff) smokes my iPhone. No contest.
No troll.
It's remarkably rare that an app makes it to my home page.