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Finally, Google Maps for iPhone again

David Pescovitz at 9:22 am Thu, Dec 13, 2012

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TO13 3 1Google Maps is now available again for iPhone. I'll be home soon. (via Google's Official Blog)

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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  • vonbobo

    There is only one thing left to do: Apple must sue Google Maps into the ground.

  • nixiebunny

    So I can now upgrade my phone to the latest iOS?

  • http://twitter.com/TimmoWarner Timmo Warner

    But… but… iPad.

    It’s just not the same blowing up an iPhone app.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KHCUTUOZ2YXERCXQQN324LZSZY Mike

    I don’t get why people want apps for this stuff.  Why not just use the regular website?

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=714073824 Kenneth Spencer Brown

      The regular website doesn’t have turn-by-turn navigation, for one. (Or am I missing your inside joke?)

    • http://lectiblog.blogspot.com/ lecti

      Speed and convenience – 1) Vector graphics provide more efficient data transfer than tiles 2) native applications tend to be more responsive and flexible than web apps.

      Unless…you are kidding, of course.

  • voiceinthedistance

    I downloaded the app last night, and did a quick test with the turn by turn directions (without leaving my living room) to compare Google’s version with the Apple one.  I think, much as I dislike and fear The Google, that it is indeed better in the way it handles directions.

    The odd thing, though, is that an hour after I fell asleep, a woman’s voice on my phone told me to turn right in 1000 feet.  I swear, it wasn’t a dream.  That’s one pushy app.

  • http://lectiblog.blogspot.com/ lecti

    Apple hardware with Google service: this is the way it should have been instead of all this android nonsense.

    By the way, Google Maps application by Google was never available before on iOS – the original Maps app was an Apple application which used Google Maps *data*.  I can’t believe how many news reports make this error.

  • Halloween_Jack

    The weird thing is how many people are spinning this as some big victory for Google, despite Apple getting what it wanted all along: turn-by-turn directions. 

  • benher

    Thank fucking Jebus. I can finally get iOS6 and panorama photos now.