Apple has issued a statement in response to the major criticism its new Maps app has received since it launched with iOS 6 on Wednesday. Users have been reporting missing train stations, relocated landmarks, buildings in rivers and many more inaccuracies in Apple’s new map service.
“Customers around the world are upgrading to iOS 6 with over 200 new features including Apple Maps, our first map service,” Apple spokeswoman Trudy Miller told AllThingsD. “We are excited to offer this service with innovative new features like Flyover, turn-by-turn navigation, and Siri integration. We launched this new map service knowing it is a major initiative and that we are just getting started with it.”
See also: How to get Google Maps back on an iOS 6 iPhone
“Maps is a cloud-based solution and the more people use it, the better it will get,” Miller continued. “We appreciate all of the customer feedback and are working hard to make the customer experience even better.”
Many users are desperate to get Google’s Maps app back, and the Guardian reports that Google “is enjoying the bad press Apple is suffering.”
The Guardian’s sources have said that Google is working on a Maps app for iOS 6, but there is no guarantee that Apple will approve it in the App Store.
In the meantime, if you, like many others, really don’t like Apple’s Maps app, here’s how to get Google Maps back on an iOS 6 iPhone.
See also: Mapgate: iPhone Maps hyperbole and a potted history of gates
Our Macworld poll of more than 520 people has revealed that more than half of our readers want Google Maps back, while almost 20 per cent have decided not to update to iOS 6 after hearing about the mistakes and inaccuracies in the Maps app.
You can also see the best of Apple's Map blunders on the The Amazing iOS 6 Maps blog.
See also:
iOS 6 Maps Twitter accound skewers Apple, gets suspended, resurrects itself
Hands on with iOS 6: Installation
Hands on with iOS 6: Maps
Hands on with iOS 6: Stores
Hands on with iOS 6: Siri
Hands on with iOS 6: Music
Hands on with updated Find My Friends and Find My iPhone
Three surprising ways iOS 6 can boost your productivity
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Baskaran said on Fri, 21 Sep 2012
If you look a street map you would find easily this address - 501 Ang Mo Kio Industrial Park 1 - but Google map has no mention of this pace... unless you have the street view.
mrmac007 said on Fri, 21 Sep 2012
At least iOS 6 didn't come to the iPad 1, still got my google maps lol.
Dragonfly said on Sat, 22 Sep 2012
Apple were 5 years ahead back in 2007, how the heck can they now have a map app that's 5 years behind ?
To save face.... Apple need to quadruple their efforts on this over the next 12 months. For me it currently makes iOS6 the big mustn't have for 2012. Maps plain and simple isn't ready for release and, as much as it would probably have pained Steve if he were here, I'm sure he'd have extended the Google license, or struck up a deal with Bing Maps if he saw where the back-end of the Apple App was. He'd certainly be screaming and firing people in the corridors by now.
Hilbo66 said on Sun, 23 Sep 2012
Face it, you ain't getting Apple supplied Google Maps back!
Sure Apple made a big mistake with this, I don't believe for one minute that it would have happened with Steve around, but happen it has, and I have faith that Apple will sort it.
In the meantime, stop bitching, use the suggestion here and get Google Maps back on your iOS6 devices as an interim measure!
Hilbo66 said on Sun, 23 Sep 2012
By the way, Google is by no means perfect, despite it's massive advantage of seniority, I have witnessed driving directions from middle England to the East coast of Scotland advising a route across the North Sea, (no ferries involved!) It's a pity Google didn't try to Street Map this!
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