Google Maps

From The New York Times:

BITS BLOG: Google Working on Maps for iPhone, iPad

Google is developing a maps application for iPhone and iPad that it's seeking to finish by the end of the year, according to people involved with the effort who declined to be named.

http://nyti.ms/QkpOTW

Google says Maps not waiting in wings for iPhone

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/25/us-google-iphone-idUSBRE88O07U20120925

Meg - It's interesting that both stories have the same date. I think it really leaves us in the dark.

Me too! Any word on when they plan to fix this? I tried to find a merchent using my "New and Better" iPhone 5 and it looped me in circle twice. I finally called the merchant and I wasn't even close. I regreat this purchase.

Google maps uses white and yellow pages information and coordinates are entered by both I know that they integrate the listing details into the google map result and is seedless with a number of interfaces why apple just didn't cough up what they needed to for the contract is beyond me it's not like they're poor! Seems a bit like the argument they stood they're ground on with Adobe and flash on the iPhone. Give us what we want apple!

i have iphone 3gs, and apple maps dont have turn by turn voice navigation support for 3gs and i dont want it, then why the **** ios 6 upgrade is there for 3gs if features are not supported ... i cannot used the so called "advance" voice navigation system nor can i use google maps.. !!

I think that Steve Jobs is turning in his grave with the turnout of the new iPhone 5. It's interesting that since the death of Steve Jobs a year ago, Apple has lost it's way. From introducing products that were perfect in all matters for the consumer and releasing their product no sooner then needed and with all its Apps working perfectly. To having countless problems with the iPhone 5 and the upgrades like the New Map's App and removal of YouTube App. (( I only upgraded my iPhone 4S and not my iPad, as I need a Map App that works ))

The problem with the new Map App by Tom Tom is that it doesn't have the best product available for an Apple consumers. As a once proud Apple user living abroad "Spain, Europe" it is a sad day to try to be proud about Apple. Google Maps gave us suggestions to miss-spelled road, places, location & cities no matter the language you typed it in. TomTom just says "No Result Found". If I cant' find where I need to go then how can I assist TomTom better their system. If Apple would like for me to better their products then I believe that Apple and TomTom need to pay me/us for doing their work. Google never asked me to help them with their Map Apps. I have never paid a penny to Google for an app or program.

For Google, I am also a proud Google user. I am willing to pay to have a Google Maps App again on my iPhone & iPad. But I feel that these companies are just interested in their egos and not on the consumers that made them what they are today... Mega-Corporations!

A word to Apple, in short it is the Consumer that decides a companies worth. We the consumer can be fickle. If the post Steve Jobs Apple decided to do us the injustice of treating us any less then what Steve Jobs intended then we can stop buying apple products. This past week Apple stock started losing ground, maybe this is an inclination that consumers and investors see the change in the horizon.

I use Google Maps and street view __every day__ on my iPad when reading the newspaper.

I cannot and will not "upgrade" to iOS 6 until I have Google Maps and all of its functionality available.

This part of the "upgrade" was truly pitiful!

And what's with getting rid of the convenient, useful and harmless YouTube app? I used it all the time and liked it better than the web interface.

Cutting off your nose to spite your face isn't just dumb -- in these cases it's harming customers and usability.

I have never used google maps but I use mapquest which has voice navigation and update for the new IOS and to me is a good one. Again though never tried google maps so maybe it is a better one than this one. I know the one my wife uses on the samsung galaxy 2 ***** sent me in wrong directions all day today. The mapquest helped me find my way might want to give it a look. They are so similar to me it isnt funny.

And received a major pan by the app reviewer in our local paper.

And it __doesnt have street view__, which is _essential_ for my use of a local map utility.

google maps please! google maps please! google maps please! google maps please! google maps please! google maps please! google maps please! google maps please! google maps please! google maps please! google maps please! google maps please! google maps please! google maps please! google maps please!

I really like the 3d ****... but i prefer arrive on time.

dmanasco wrote:

And it __doesnt have street view__, which is _essential_ for my use of a local map utility.

Just out of curiosity, why is it essential? It's a relatively recent innovation. What did you do before Google Maps introduced it? I'm honestly curious. To me, Street View has always been an entertaining novelty. Satellite view isn't much more useful.

No chance of a proper map app for a while yet unless google delivers unfortunately.

It's going to take years to get anywhere near the quality that we enjoyed before apple pulled the rug out from under our feet with apples own fail maps.

You are not alone in your pain however - there is a much more entertaining read on this thread regarding this whole debacle

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4311003?tstart=0

As a hospice nurse traveling to unfamiliar neighborhoods, with Street View I can preview the street and actual home I'll be visiting. Yes, it's a fairly new feature, but I have come to depend on it to carry out my job duties in a safe, prepared and efficient manner. I used to have fans instead of central AC, got up to change TV channels instead of using the remote, had a single land line tethered to the wall instead of a mobile phone. Yeah, I suppose I could back to the old way of doing things, but once one has become accustomed to having the latest technological tools, it's frustrating to have Apple basically tell me I must now be satisfied with an inferior way of doing my job. Since Cook's apology, I haven't heard a peep out of Apple, so I'm guessing they don't give a rip if customers are satisfied or not. Not the brightest business model, but their profits speak for themselves... For now.

Essential and convenient are two very different things. Remote controls for televisions are convenient, not essential. AC is very nice, but, again, not essential. Or perhaps we have different deffinitions of esstential. To me it means a thing that is required and without which the task is impossible or so difficult that it becomes not worth doing. None of your analogies fall into that category for me. Thank you for your reply.

I will be interested to hear what dmanasco has to say should they decide to reply.

Best of luck.