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Title: How Apple Maps hopes to catch Google Maps and Waze Post by: HCK on June 12, 2015, 09:00:12 pm How Apple Maps hopes to catch Google Maps and Waze
<article> <section class="page"> <p> The WWDC keynote on Monday included a very significant update to Apple’s Maps (http://www.macworld.com/article/2932714/ios-9-makes-siri-more-intelligent-adds-transit-maps-and-a-new-news-app.html) app in iOS 9: mass transit directions.</p><p> Starting this fall, we’ll be able to use Maps to figure out a route to our destination that includes buses, subways, trains, even ferries. And it’s been a long time coming. Since 2012—when Google Maps was kicked to the curb in iOS 6—Apple Maps has had a tab suggesting third-party apps (like Google Maps...) to get public transportation routes. The transit update in iOS 9 marks an important step for Apple and its Maps service not having to rely on third parties to provide such a core smartphone functionality. It took them three years.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2933179/how-apple-maps-hopes-to-catch-google-maps-and-waze.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: How Apple Maps hopes to catch Google Maps and Waze (http://www.macworld.com/article/2933179/how-apple-maps-hopes-to-catch-google-maps-and-waze.html#tk.rss_all) |