Released today.
http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/google-maps-is-now-available-for-iphone.html
Bet a lot of folk will be pleased after the problems with Apple's own mapping software.
disclaimer: probably will not lead you to your death in a national park.
rumors I read yesterday included future inclusion of Foursquare, and a buyout of GPS company Tom-Tom and leveraging their tech to better the maps (read stop leading people into desert deaths)
Some people are complaining that the new iOS Google Maps is better than the one for Android.
And Proof that this is a path apple should either fix or turn-back on.
Just a few hours after its return to the App Store, Google Maps is the most popular free app in the bunch.
Is that of all time? That's hilarious either way.
I wish apple would buy TomTom. Google maps is cool and all but it's turn by turn directions aren't nearly as good as my TomTom standalone GPS. I like the new app but I wouldn't personally rely on it to take me somewhere I was unfamiliar with.
Google should buy TomTom.
Tom-tom should buy Nokia...ok now I'm just being silly
One thing I think its important to note is that iOS has GPS applications from the three major GPS makers. Magellan, TomTom, and Garmin all have iOS apps that work very well on iphone and ipad. Android doesn't have any of these.(at least I cant find them on my nexus 7)
When I was in sixth grade I wrote a small (fiction) story about how Nintendo had made a hand-held computer, and had continued on to dominate the tech field and purchase a great number of companies (and the New York Giants)
The story was supposed to be non-fiction retelling of our weekend.
Either way, I might've been pretty close, just transpose Apple or Google with Nintendo, since Nintendo hasn't been doing anything close to what I described.