Google on Thursday released a new Google Maps app
for iPhone users to replace a glitch-ridden Apple programme 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 programmes 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 programme immediately drew
scorn, leading some users to refuse to upgrade their operating systems.
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