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Title: Apple Released Its Own Maps App a Year Before Google Maps Contract Expired Post by: HCK on September 26, 2012, 07:01:15 pm Apple Released Its Own Maps App a Year Before Google Maps Contract Expired
With the launch of iOS 6, Apple has stepped up its rivalry with Google by replacing the Google powered Maps application with its in-house developed Maps app and removing the YouTube app. While Apple’s iOS 6 Maps app offers new features such as 3D Flyover and the much needed turn-by-turn voice navigation, it has been heavily crticized for the lack of public transit information, inaccuracies in Apple’s mapping data, errors in locating points of interest and sometimes weird 3D mapping imagery. Continue reading → http://feeds.iphonehacks.com/~r/iphonehacks/~3/b67JuYQwzEA/apple-google-maps-contract.html |