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Are you serious? An iPhone 4 is one generation behind, the colors are far less appealing, the routes are longer and worse, google maps are also vector based, also have turn by turn navigation, 3d maps, but with smarter routes AND public transport. You have no argument, get a life. Google Maps on Android has everything Apple Maps and more, but is also considerably more refined. If Apple had just upgraded Google Maps instead of deciding to create its own then everyone would have benefitted.
You key point, "Google Maps on Android", I have an iPhone (and most others here), not an Android. Apple Maps on iPhone are superior then Google Maps on iPhone for a number of reasons.
Vector Based
Turn by Turn
Siri control
Yelp POI integration
Incident/Construction Reporting
The fact is that we have no way of knowing for sure why Apple couldn't have upgraded the Google Maps app with Google assistance to provide the same experience that Android users have. But most information points to the fact that Google didn't WANT to work with Apple to upgrade and/or were going to charge Apple an iArm and iLeg just to include basic features.
I'm sorry if you are unhappy that Google will not allow one of its main competitive advantages over Apple be installed on iPhones but that Googles issue, not Apple.
That being said, if you want Google Maps as they appear on Android, why not just get and Android phone and stop trolling and iPhone forums?
Complaining here will actually do nothing.
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I understand that new features are withheld from older devices, but the Maps experience on my phone is now worse than it was on 5.1.1, and that's just wrong.
Then you shouldn't have upgraded to iOS 6 BETA....
Also, if it was better on 5.1.1, simply downgrade. Problem solved!
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The problem with Apple's Maps app in iOS 5 and previous was the app itself, the front-end, not the backend and its data.
The fix proposed by Apple in iOS 6 is to swap out the back-end.
Google doesn't "obviously keep a better version" for their own OS, Google never made one for iOS to begin with. The front-end Application was under Apple's responsibility. All the features it lacked was Apple's own fault for not implementing them from Google's data.
Basically, they replace the only part of the app that was good : the actual Map data. That is the issue people have with it.
That makes no sense. Think about it, why would Apple create a while new Maps app if all they need to do is fix the front end stuff? That makes no sense from a business or fiscal sense. Upgrading the existing Maps app would be fairly cheap, completely developing a new Maps app from the ground up and buying companies to help make no fiscal sense if there is a cheaper option.
More then likely what keeps being reported, that Google didn't permit Apple to use the data in certain ways is what was holding back the current Maps app and drove Apple to replace it.
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The front end has always been the problem with Maps, which was originally designed and never updated by Apple, not Google.
KnightWRX, it pains me to see your technically sound and logically correct posts in so many threads cast aside by blind ignorance.
Incorrect, use Google and find the many articles that say that Google did not permit Apple to use certain features in the Current Maps App.
Also, it did get an update, iOS 1.0 didn't have Street View, Public transit Directions, or Walking Directions. Google gave or sold access to that data to Apple so Apple could include it in the Maps app. I believe that was iOS 3.0
