Google on Thursday released a new Google Maps app
for iPhone users to replace a glitch-ridden Apple program panned for
omitting key landmarks and cities and failing correctly to identify
locations.
The company has promised an "entirely new"
experience with its Google Maps app, which includes local search
functions, voice-guided directions and "Street View" images of places
and even the inside of some 100,000 businesses.
Apple was forced to make a highly
embarrassing apology in September for its own maps application in the
new iOS 6 operating system used by the iPhone 5, and urged customers to
use rival programs while improvements are made.
Apple had booted off Google Maps -- which had
been the default program for Apple devices -- when it developed its own
mapping application.
But the new Apple program immediately drew scorn, leading some users to refuse to upgrade their operating systems.
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