Who cares about the timing? The maps experience, even with turn-by-turn, feels worse than what I had in iOS 5. I hate it when companies deliberately make things worse.
really ? I'm liking the turn by turn directions in ios6 a lot and to me the update was worth it just for that. I still have the mobile google maps on there if I need to search anything.
Apple Maps feel very snappy and I like the Yelp tie-in.
But I have never used the transit options so I can't say I'm missing it. If I had to use it I figure I could just jump over to web based google maps.
Curious to know what don't you like about the new apple maps that can't be solved by the web based google maps ?
To be fair I've only used it for about a week-and-a-half now. If you give it a specific address it works pretty well for the most part. One thing I love compared to my Galaxy Nexus is that under the lock screen the next direction will turn the screen on.
Another thing that works better is integration with Siri. I felt that on Android there were a few more hoops to go through to do things like "drive to home" or "drive to Bob's Chicken Shack".
The things I don't like are the lack of detail on the maps currently. I don't use the satellite layer so it looks really sparse and I feel like I'm driving to big abstract blobs.
To be honest this is pretty good for a first try. Getting native turn-by-turn that works 95% of the time is pretty impressive.
Apple Maps feel very snappy and I like the Yelp tie-in.
But I have never used the transit options so I can't say I'm missing it. If I had to use it I figure I could just jump over to web based google maps.
Curious to know what don't you like about the new apple maps that can't be solved by the web based google maps ?