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- Thread starter Brad L
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I hope so. I think I'm going to hold off on ordering the iphone 5 until I know for sure. I'm not going to upgrade my current iphone to ios6 either.
I appreciate the help, but that's of no use to me.
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I do prefer Google Maps. Thanks for the suggestion.
How is that of no use? It has all the same features, even mass transit info. You can even add it to your phone like an app.
I know you are trying to defend Apple and I appreciate that. However, I want a google maps app. I don't want to have to load safari first; that's a silly suggestion.
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I'll have to check that out.
I am not defending app, and it's not a silly suggestion. You didn't understand what I said.
Like V said, I prefer TomTom as well, but if you're looking for free google maps, my suggestion is perfect for you.
Check out my other post....I have solved your problem. You don't have to open safari first....this installs (puts a shortcut) to google maps on your phone.
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/15656692/
Like V said, I prefer TomTom as well, but if you're looking for free google maps, my suggestion is perfect for you.
Check out my other post....I have solved your problem. You don't have to open safari first....this installs (puts a shortcut) to google maps on your phone.
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/15656692/
You suggested I use safari to access google maps instead of using an app. What's there not to understand?
It's obvious you don't understand...yes it's through safari, but it's not like opening up safari and typing in the address, and if you look at the link I provided you might understand.
Anyway I am done trying to explain something to someone who doesn't seem interested in actually understanding something and is only here to complain.
You do understand that his suggestion is not Tap safari > Enter maps.google.com every time you want to use google maps? His suggestion is you do that one and then make a home screen bookmark link so it essentially works like an app?
Or is it the fact that you Don't want to use a webpage but a native app?
It has all the same features, and the data is coming from the exact same place. Why is this not a bad idea? The built in apps is doing the same exact thing.
I think people suggesting that the Google Maps website is a suitable alternative to the iOS 5 native app, are the kind of people that would be happy running Android rather than iOS.
Its nowhere near as good as the native app wasyou cant even pinch to zoom!
Hopefully in the near future, Google will release a Google Maps app that improves upon the old Apple app with things like offline maps like the Android app has.
Its nowhere near as good as the native app wasyou cant even pinch to zoom!
Hopefully in the near future, Google will release a Google Maps app that improves upon the old Apple app with things like offline maps like the Android app has.
I personally have the full TomTom and Garmin app, I prefer to have the maps loaded on the phone. I don't see much of a difference between the built in google maps and going to the maps website. They have the same features. Except you have a toolbar on the top of one.
I have the TomTom app as well and having all the maps fully offline is very helpful, especially when doing cross country traveling where cell reception can completely cut out. I rarely lose GPS signal.
No it doesn't, and if you're using a carrier that has mandatory image compression being in Safari makes the maps unreadable.
Didn't we learn from the Facebook debacle that html5 is always worse than native?