Apple Maps

After the release of Apple's Maps, it started to grab customers' attention more widely. And now it's been reported that Maps has snatched million of Google Maps users.

Apple's own Maps app for iOS devices hasn't exactly been a success. Whereas it lacks many features, one of the critical deficiencies is the lack of any alternatives to the popular 'Street View' feature in Google Maps. An iOS developer has now devised a clever way of accessing the Street View features directly from within the iOS 6 Maps app.

iOS users have been clamoring to get a Google Maps iOS app ever since Apple ditched Google's mapping solution for its own. Google had finally released the app only last week and within 48 hours, the app had been downloaded more than 10 million times!

In a huge and rather overwhelmingly pleasant surprise to the iOS users, Google Maps for iOS has finally landed in the App Store. In other words, iOS users will once again be able to access the best mapping solutions on their mobile devices. The app has already topped the iPhone App Store's free apps section.

Apple's Maps app has been lambasted enough in the past. The main problem with it is the incorrect positioning of different locations, rendering it nearly unusable. Australian police has now warned the users not to use the app since it can give them wrong directions.

Apple has long cited its plans to bring together its desktop and mobile operating systems. And in a bid to do so, the company has been steadily introducing iOS features into its recent OS X builds. Rumors have it now that Apple will be releasing the upcoming OS X 10.9 with both Siri and Maps integration.

When Apple released iOS 6 with its own Maps and essentially eradicated Google Maps from the new iteration, it was a major disaster. The new Maps were no good as they lacked some of the most basic features. Consequently, Apple had to issue apologies and direct iPhone users to use viable alternatives. Nonetheless, Apple may still refuse to accept a…

With its boatload of apps for iOS devices, Google has clearly made encroachments into Apple's ecosystem. The question is, how will this battle between the two play out?

If you thought Apple Maps were horrible, think again, a survey taken in September proves that Apple's new mapping application isn't all too bad. I've used Apple Maps to travel an exceptional five-hundred miles and not once was I brought off track due to a misplaced street or blurry graphic. ChangeWave, a market researching firm, released data…

Apple Maps in iOS 6 allows users to cache a much larger area for offline viewing than Google Maps. Apple Maps allows users to view any location around a 740 mile radius (1200 km) from cache when a data connection is lost. Google Maps provided viewing of areas in just a 10 mile radius. While traveling, many users commonly experience some-sort of…