My quick read of the news is that the Google Maps app has received a very large number of downloads. Don’t have an Iphone so I don’t know.

Perspective is something. Remember how bad Google Maps was and for how long it was bad. In this blog, one of my last recollections of a fairly big “mistake” was a reference to an article how G Maps was giving bad directions on a major highway still under construction in Maryland. It was sort of major considering that a pretty large population of drivers could have been misdirected.

Google fixed it reasonably quickly at that time and faster than they used to fix things. And I know that was over a year ago…possibly 18 months ago.

Perspective suggests it takes a Looooooooooong time to get Maps to work reasonably well.

Seems like a smart move by Apple to get something up that works while they slog through a darned big project to get their own version up to snuff…..and who knows how long that might take.

Also, why do both the places and new app of a listing not include the introduction / about us that we see on desktops?

@Chad
A debacle for sure but much of it a pile on PR disaster more than anything else. There were times in the not too distant past where Google was sending folks off mountain cliffs, down closed roads and losing towns. Apple has opened up SIRI but it is not clear whether the level of integration that Apple gets from SIRI & Maps will be there… Lets hope that Google keeps updating this and tries to add whatever it can to make it more hands free.