+9999999999999999999999....Google is wiping the floor with apple on the maps point blank....I use google maps on my iphone 6 Plus
Goodness gracious. Google adds new features to maps 10 times faster than Apple. Apple's maps product really is pathetic.
Apple maps isn't even on the level of google maps from 5 years ago
The best thing that has happened to Google Maps is being kicked out as the default map app in iOS. Google refused to do anything with Maps until they got the boot. Sure Apple's map app is nowhere close at this point, but it is because of Apple's map app that we have a really good google app on iOS. If apple ever lets me switch the default map then I may switch back to Google. Bottom line, thank you Apple for getting Google to give us such a good app!
Google absolutely demolishes Apple on the Maps front. It's not even close.
I mean, one would have to give completely incorrect directions 50% of the time, while the other gave 100% accurate direction all the time for one to be even considered "twice as good", right?
Ugh. Night Mode please.
If you like Maps, and GMail, and YouTube, and of course Googles powerful search, you might also enjoy the Google operating system. You get a wide variety of devices to choose from, tighter integration of these popular Google apps, and usually for a fraction of the price of an iPhone. Check it out!
Out of all the operating systems out there, chrome is probably the last one I'd use.
How do you get the weather? Am I missing something?
I'm not seeing it either
I appreciate the point but that makes all destinations equal. The other night, we trusted Apple Maps to get us to an away game gym where our kid was playing. It took us to the wrong place. Opened Google Maps and it knew where the gym was. By the time we got there, we had missed a chunk of the game. Our kid had apparently made some fantastic plays that we'll never see. Apple Maps can be right the next 20 or 50 times but that 1 miss weighs more (to me anyway).
I was recently traveling out of state. Punched in an airport to get to. Apple Maps didn't map the right airport. Fortunately I happened to know Apple Maps was wrong. Had I just trusted it though, I would have gone about an hour almost opposite where I needed to go. Another hour to correct the mistake and I would have missed the flight. Minimally, that's going to deliver the aggravation of being delayed. Sometimes that's an overnight delay. Does that weigh equal to- say- it correctly finding a Starbucks the next 20 or 50 times?
Imagine the meeting where the big deal is to be closed or lost. If you get the wrong directions and blow the big deal is that equal to it finding the right lunch place the next 20 or 50 times?
I'm also in Florida. Try "Reagan Airport" (one of the big three in DC). I'm flying there soon. When I punch that into Maps, it locates "Marlin Airport" near Waco Texas. Proof: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qefrdxglf5zvwbn/reaganyieldsmarlin.jpg?dl=0 Now again, I know the airport I expect to see is not in Texas so I have the knowledge to know better. But try the same in Google Maps and it will guess it right. Apparently, both can see I want to locate an airport (and do) but one then uses the other word to identify the right airport while the other seems to just pick an airport out of the air (or maybe one with the same number of letters?). Welcome to Florida! If you like to fish, fishing for "Reagan" is popular here.
All that said, Apple Maps is pretty good. But Google Maps is generally better IMO. I've learned that when getting to a point is crucial and I don't happen to know better, it's best to at least check Google to verify Apples pin. For me anyway, there are still too many Marlins instead of Reagans in regular use.
And it's not that the app itself is bad (I agree that Apple's seems a bit more intuitive to use), it's mostly the data underpinning the app and some of the searching algorithms. Google appears to have better data and is probably fundamentally better at processing search entries. I wish there was another Maps App that would plot both, highlighting when the Google & Apple pins differ by more than a modest distance, then letting me choose which one I'd like to use in those cases. If someone is a good app coder and will make this app, it's one I would buy.
How do you get the weather? Am I missing something?
Welcome to Florida! If you like to fish, fishing for "Reagan" is popular here.
I wish there was another Maps App that would plot both, highlighting when the Google & Apple pins differ by more than a modest distance, then letting me choose which one I'd like to use in those cases. If someone is a good app coder and will make this app, it's one I would buy.
How exactly do you import transit directions to calendar?
Apple maps isn't even on the level of google maps from 5 years ago
Competition is good. Apple needs to work hard on its maps solution
Ugh. Night Mode please.
Competition is good. Apple needs to work hard on its maps solution
It's a minimal implementation. In the menu to left, click "explore nearby" and it will tell you the temperature. Kind of ... useless
The spin stops......^here.The best thing that has happened to Google Maps is being kicked out as the default map app in iOS. Google refused to do anything with Maps until they got the boot. Sure Apple's map app is nowhere close at this point, but it is because of Apple's map app that we have a really good google app on iOS. If apple ever lets me switch the default map then I may switch back to Google.
Bottom line, thank you Apple for getting Google to give us such a good app!
Navigon does have live weather, but only in European countries. They offered weather in their navigation apps starting in mid-2010.I've never understood why navigation apps on phones (Apple Maps, Google Maps, Navigon, etc) do not incorporate weather data on long trips. When I drive from Ohio to Missouri, I think it would be really helpful to see that I am going to be encountering rain or snow and at what point. Would allow me to gas up and check windshield washer fluid levels before I need them. Just seems like a no-brainer to put that feature in the navigation app rather than having to switch between two apps.
I'm not challenging you or arguing, but here is my take on it.Althought Google search and maps are excellent Google products, I question their ethics. A business model based on tracking and other shady shenanigans.
That's why ill use duckduckgo occasionally, because I just don't trust google.
There is always at least one of you in any Google related thread. Get over it already.Althought Google search and maps are excellent Google products, I question their ethics. A business model based on tracking and other shady shenanigans.
That's why ill use duckduckgo occasionally, because I just don't trust google.
Google chose not to do ONE thing Apple wanted them to do, instead reserving that ONE thing for their own competing product vs. Apple.
There is always at least one of you in any Google related thread. Get over it already.
Wrong, Google and Apple didn't agree. Apple wanted something for the Maps app and Google wanted something for doing that.