New York: Like a lot of people, I was happy and relieved to see Google Maps return to the iPhone. I'd been frustrated with the Apple mapping software that had replaced it three months ago. For one thing, it didn't have public transit directions, a feature important for New Yorkers like me. Apple's mapping app also wasn't as good as the old Google app in finding destinations. I often had...
03:55 PM, Dec 15, 2012
San Francisco: Google Maps have found their way back to the iPhone. The world's most popular online mapping system returned on late Wednesday with the release of the Google Maps' iPhone app. The release comes nearly three months after Apple replaced Google Maps as the device's built-in navigation system and inserted its own maps into the latest version of its mobile operating system. Apple's maps proved to be far inferior...
01:35 PM, Dec 13, 2012
New York: The head of Apple's iPhone software development was asked to resign after he refused to sign a letter apologising for the flaws of Apple's mapping application, according to a published report. The Wall Street Journal says Scott Forstall's refusal was the latest clash between him and other executives, and led to the company's announcement Monday that he is stepping down and leaving the company next year. Forstall's unit...
10:00 AM, Oct 31, 2012
Fremont: Apple's new maps app came out the day I started a 2,243-mile road trip through four states. As complaints about it trickled in and Apple's CEO apologised, I was left wondering whether people were using the same app I was. Although it's not flawless or as good as Google's maps app on Android phones, Apple's new offering on the iPhone got me where I needed to go - for...
01:51 PM, Oct 06, 2012
San Francisco: Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook apologised Friday to customers frustrated with glaring errors in its new Maps service and, in an unusual move for the consumer giant, directed them to rival services such as Google Inc's Maps instead. The rare apology follows Apple's launch of its own mapping service earlier this month, when it began selling the iPhone 5 and rolled out iOS 6, the highly anticipated...
01:57 PM, Sep 29, 2012
New York: Apple CEO Tim Cook apologised for the company's error-ridden new mobile mapping service that was launched in iOS 6, the latest version of its mobile operating system. Cook pledged to improve the application and, in an unusual mea culpa, invited frustrated consumers to turn to the competition. In a letter posted online on Friday, Cook said Apple "fell short" of its own expectations. Full text of Apple CEO...
12:52 PM, Sep 29, 2012
New York: Apple CEO Tim Cook apologised on Friday for the company's error-ridden new mobile mapping service, pledging to improve the application installed on tens of millions of smartphones and, in an unusual mea culpa, inviting frustrated consumers to turn to the competition. In a letter posted online Friday, Cook said Apple "fell short" of its own expectations. "Everything we do at Apple is aimed at making our products the...
01:42 AM, Sep 29, 2012
New Delhi: Reports suggest that Apple had no other option left but to come up with its own home-grown Maps in iOS 6. According to AllThingsD, Apple "felt it had no choice but to replace Google Maps with its own, because of a disagreement over a key feature: Voice-guided turn-by-turn driving directions." Google has been offering spoken turn-by-turn navigation in its Android Maps for a long time, but the service...
03:17 PM, Sep 27, 2012
New Delhi: While Apple is trying hard to fix the issues with Apple Maps in iOS 6 to point out correctly the places on the earth's surface, Google is taking users the depths of the oceans with its first underwater panoramic images in Google Maps. "With these vibrant and stunning photos you dont have to be a scuba diver"or even know how to swim"to explore and experience six of the...
02:42 PM, Sep 26, 2012
New Delhi: Samsung has been poking fun at the Apple iPhone 5 with its ads and now Google-owned Motorola Mobility is also not letting the opportunity of a gibe slip away. Motorola Mobility in its posts on leading social networking services takes a swipe at the Apple Maps snafu. Apple Maps is facing criticism from users globally for a number of geographical errors, missing information and because it lacks features...
06:24 AM, Sep 24, 2012
San Francisco: Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs when it comes to leading Apple Inc. As the debut of the new iPhone 5 just proved, that may not be a bad thing. The taller, thinner and lighter phone prompted a rush on Wall Street to raise price targets for Apple stock, but the optimism was not because of a big technological advance or design breakthrough; the "wow" factor that was...
11:09 AM, Sep 23, 2012
San Francisco: An entire city is in the ocean, a farm has been labelled as an airport, highways end in the middle of nowhere and a hospital now covers the entire centre of British city Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare's home. Welcome to the new world of Apple Maps that greeted iPhone and iPad users when they downloaded the highly anticipated update to the consumer giant's mobile software platform, iOS 6. Apple Inc's...
06:38 AM, Sep 21, 2012
