Finally, Google Maps for iPhone again

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

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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.