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Dont upgrade to iOS6 if you use Google Maps.

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Apple has released its new OS for its phones and iPad. The problem is that parts are still in alpha stage... namely the new Apple Maps.

Bianca Bosker: Apple's IOS 6 Maps Debacle: You're Drivin Me Crazy And I Distill Can't Type

I'm wiring this story on y iPhone this morning because after my upgrade to "the worlds most advanced operating system," iOS 6, I got Los in New Jersey on my way to work.
Ok so that's not entirely tue. i am on my iphone (couldn't you tell?), but I got to work just fine. I know my office is in manhattan. Yet concerninly, Apple'a new maps app does not. And even after I gave apple my location (Chelsea) and specifically asked it to locate aol's office building in "new York, ny," it tried to send me to Bayonne, New Jersey. Fortunately, Apple maps doesn't offer transit directions, so it couldn't tell me how to get there. I'd have to search a different service altogether for that information,, which hopefully, had i not known my destination, would have set me straight.
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Apple Maps vs Google Maps: A Side by Side iPhone Comparison

Then there's the case of international locations. Apple Maps does not handle them well at all. Simply type in Heathrow, and you get some random location in the US. Google Maps knows you mean the airport. Ask for the legendary-but-now-defunct Spanish restaurant El Bulli and its the same result for Apple Maps. Google Maps, on the other hand, gives you the location and a quick note that its permanently closed.
Google Maps can't arrive on iOS soon enough.
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The last link is from an Applefanboy site called Gizmodo... and the last sentence tells it all.
There are plenty of other pro Apple sites complaining over the new mapping service... it is absolutely horrible. It makes the SIRI fiasco look like a cake walk. Apple have managed to loose their own stores, move whole towns onto non existent islands and worse. The system is absolutely a massive downgrade compared to Google Maps which is part of iOS 5.

So do you have an iPhone 4s or lower... do not upgrade your OS if you need a mapping/GPS service that actually works and is free... aka Google Maps. If you are buying an iPhone 5... then you are screwed until they fix their crap or Google comes out with a Google Maps app.

I can not for the life of me understand why Apple is trying to make its own mapping service. Nokia and Google have had a decade of information, testing and innovation and Apple in their arrogance thinks it can do it better? Apple should have licensed either Google or Nokia mapping service instead of trying to slap something together with TomTom and the other company they have joined forces with.
 
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