The drama has finally come to an end. After a couple of months of absence felt by the majority of Apple mobile device users, the prodigal son of navigation has returned. Google Maps is now available for iOS. In this way, iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch users will be able to use the most reliable location and navigation service that we can find after being forced to use an erratic and unreliable service signed by the apple company.
Surprisingly and without almost any noise, the application has arrived on iTunes in the middle of the Christmas season. The characteristics of this are expected and those that we can already find mostly on Android.
The first thing to say is that it is really intuitive, in fact, there are those who are already stating that the app is even better than on Android. Since the bar menus are lighter and always leave a good view of the map, that is, the menus and the map share the screen better and that saves us from having to correct it. Google itself has recognized this. This may not be the only case where a Mountain View app works best in the competing devices.
The application has the desired Street View, as the fans claimed and how could it be otherwise. We also have turn-by-turn guidance navigation, ideal for use in the car and can be a replacement for more expensive navigation applications such as TomTom.
Visually it is not as refined as Apple Maps, but it does what is important and does not put anyone's life at risk as the apple did in Australia. Has many possibilities for improvementBut it does what is vital, precisely what users wanted.
The bad thing is does not have iPad support. So you will see an application poorly adapted to the screen. Too lacks the option of being able to save maps to revisit them offline, something that we can do on Android. Either way, Google has stated that this will come soon.
I don't know if I'll be the only one to think about it, but maybe with this Google helps Apple's Christmas campaign.
Source: iTunes