While the new iPhone 5 has been an a major success so far, there has been one widely criticized aspect of the phone and its new OS, iOS 6, the Maps app.
Apple moved away from the gold standard of the Maps and Nav world, Google Maps, to start their own version. However, unlike most Apple features, the Maps app does not "just work."
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Originally posted by xtago: While Apple's maps app is utter crap...
I would say Google app is the utter gold standard either.
Google Maps is actually pretty remarkable overall. The only complaints I have are:
1.) No premium, "download in advance" version like what you find on most GPS devices.
2.) No specialized routing, such as tractor-trailer big rig routing (this is a huge market that google essentially ignores).
That said, their car routes are STILL better than the specialized tractor-trailer GPS units that cost $400+...the only downside being that the route must be double-checked against a table of low bridges and restricted routes. Really, it is pretty sad...a $80 GPS adds that table into the calculations and disables U-turns, and it becomes as $400 GPS...yet google can't be bothered to do the same.
