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Turn-by-Turn Navigation Shootout: iPhone 5’s Apple Maps app vs. Android Google Maps vs. GMC navigation system

Monday, October 8, 2012 4:34 pm41 Comments

A lot has been said about the new Maps application on the iPhone 5…

Give Apple maps a chance

Sunday, October 7, 2012 6:43 pm47 Comments

A recent torrent of complaints has prompted Apple CEO Tim Cook to issue…

AP reviews Apple’s Maps: An improvement over the old iOS Google Maps app

Friday, October 5, 2012 3:00 pmFriday, October 5, 201235 Comments

Apple’s new maps app came out the day I started a 2,243-mile road trip…

Apple reportedly tapping some of 40,000 retail store staff for iOS 6 Maps app error reports, advice

Thursday, October 4, 2012 9:23 am24 Comments

Apple is piloting a program to tap into its vast number of retail store employees…

Few seem to heed Tim Cook’s mapping app suggestions

Thursday, October 4, 2012 8:42 am32 Comments

But less than a week after Tim Cook suggested that iPhone owners unhappy with the new Apple Maps…

Google to bring Street View to Web version of Google Maps

Wednesday, October 3, 2012 7:53 pmWednesday, October 3, 201220 Comments

Apple has been taking lots of justified heat for its decision to replace Google Maps…

Apple deliberated moving Macs away from Intel chips, say sources

Wednesday, October 3, 2012 12:02 pmWednesday, October 3, 201251 Comments

Like all companies, mighty Apple is not immune to bungling a new product…

Apple’s Maps app: The next turn

Tuesday, October 2, 2012 2:29 pmTuesday, October 2, 201227 Comments

Kontra writes that “Apple hasn’t been a mapmaker and knows it”…

Apple Maps up to five times more data efficient than Google Maps

Tuesday, October 2, 2012 9:29 amMonday, October 1, 201266 Comments

Apple Maps was up to five times more data efficient than Google Maps…

Nokia licenses mapping services to Oracle

Monday, October 1, 2012 6:33 pmMonday, October 1, 201231 Comments

The Finnish company, which bought the world’s largest digital mapping firm, Navteq, in 2008…

Apple’s $30 billion maps mistake: Tim Cook’s delayed apology over the maps fiasco tells us a lot about the company’s attitude and management

Monday, October 1, 2012 4:02 pmMonday, October 1, 201248 Comments

Jean-Louis Gassée writes that Tim Cook’s delayed Maps apology…

Tim Cook’s unapologetic Maps apology is oddly familiar

Monday, October 1, 2012 3:03 pmMonday, October 1, 201243 Comments

Nine times out of 10, when a company makes an error, the polite and politically correct thing to do…

Analyst: Apple’s Map debacle won’t slow iPhone sales

Monday, October 1, 2012 9:31 amMonday, October 1, 201225 Comments

It’s great that Apple apologized for releasing a new Maps app that disappointe…

The media turned down Overreaction Road on Apple Maps

Saturday, September 29, 2012 11:51 am43 Comments

Have we learned nothing from the “Antenna Gate” circus? Despite all the grobbling, Apple Maps just isn’t that big of a deal…

Apple CEO Tim Cook hits ‘grand slam’ with Maps apology

Friday, September 28, 2012 5:01 pmFriday, September 28, 201279 Comments

There is no company on Earth that knows how to spin a negative story…

Google’s Motorola Mobility’s ad used nonexistent address to get iOS 6 Maps ‘lost’

Friday, September 28, 2012 9:50 am31 Comments

Google’s Motorola Mobility subsidiary went looking for an address…

Tim Cook open letter: We fell short with new Maps app; we are extremely sorry

Friday, September 28, 2012 8:59 amWednesday, November 28, 2012214 Comments

At Apple, we strive to make world-class products that deliver the best experience possible to our customers…

Gruber: On the timing of Apple’s Map switch

Thursday, September 27, 2012 11:28 amThursday, September 27, 201236 Comments

Let’s assume the timeframes being reported about Apple and Google’s maps license…

Apple on Maps app inaccuracies: ‘This is no one’s issue but ours’

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 8:09 pm90 Comments

Apple is seemingly taking more ownership over criticism…

Apple weighs joining in scramble for content

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 5:35 pmWednesday, September 26, 20127 Comments

Whether or not to get sucked into the content scramble is now…

Apple-Google Maps talks ended over turn-by-turn navigation

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 4:31 pmThursday, September 27, 201244 Comments

Multiple sources familiar with Apple’s thinking say the company…

Apple had more than a year left on Google Maps contract, sent Google scrambling to build iOS app

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 8:28 amTuesday, September 25, 201258 Comments

Apple’s decision to ship its own mapping system in the iPhone 5 and iOS 6 was made over a year before…

Woz ‘disappointed’ over initial Apple Maps version, but issues ‘not severe’ enough to warrant media firestorm

Tuesday, September 25, 2012 9:32 amTuesday, September 25, 201224 Comments

Reviews of Apple’s Maps have been mixed at best, but problems with the application…

Google’s Schmidt says Google Maps not on offer for iPhone 5

Tuesday, September 25, 2012 8:29 amTuesday, September 25, 201275 Comments

Google Inc has made no move to provide Google Maps for the iPhone 5…

Google’s Motorola Mobility derides Apple’s iOS 6 Maps app as ‘iLost’ in new ad

Monday, September 24, 2012 10:43 pm55 Comments

In an attempt to benefit from Apple’s much-criticized iOS 6 Maps app, Google…

Apple’s smart Maps maneuver

Monday, September 24, 2012 6:24 pm69 Comments

Replacing Google Maps with Apple Maps was shrewd, inevitable move…

Hacker ports Google Maps to Apple’s iOS 6

Monday, September 24, 2012 10:55 am17 Comments

Google Maps seems to have found its way onto iOS 6 with help from a hacker…

Why Apple pulled the plug on Google Maps

Sunday, September 23, 2012 10:48 am130 Comments

Apple’s real mistake may have been not doing it years ago…

iOS 6 Maps app mess was no big surprise to Apple: Tim Cook took a calculated risk

Saturday, September 22, 2012 1:16 pmSaturday, September 22, 2012156 Comments

No doubt the images popping up on the Internet of misnamed cities…

Skyhook Wireless files third lawsuit against Google over location-identification tech including Google Maps

Friday, September 21, 2012 7:46 pm8 Comments

Google Inc., the world’s largest Internet search engine…

Maps app grumbles, minor protest in France fail to dampen worldwide Apple iPhone 5 fever

Friday, September 21, 2012 12:30 pmFriday, September 21, 201227 Comments

Apple fans queued around city blocks worldwide on Friday to get their hands on the new iPhone 5..

New Apple Maps app under fire from iPhone, iPad users

Thursday, September 20, 2012 10:41 amThursday, September 20, 2012125 Comments

Inaccuracies and misplaced towns and cities in Apple’s new map software…

Yelp integration in Apple’s Maps app is something to love

Wednesday, September 19, 2012 7:20 pm17 Comments

Apple Maps, with the help of Yelp, gets the places experience just right…

Apple’s iOS 6 3D Flyovers: More helpful, less creepy than Google Street View

Thursday, August 30, 2012 2:32 pmThursday, August 30, 201211 Comments

Apple is incorporating advanced 3D imaging to bring a variety of new features…

Apple looks to wipe Google off the ‘map’ with iOS 6

Thursday, August 2, 2012 4:24 pm39 Comments

Apple’s new mapping software in iOS 6 marks an attempt by the iPhone maker to…

Apple said to pick AutoNavi to offer iPhone maps in China‎

Thursday, July 5, 2012 10:30 amThursday, July 5, 2012No Comments

AutoNavi Holdings Ltd., a Chinese maker of electronic navigation tools, was chosen by Apple…

Why did Apple have to ditch Google to add turn-by-turn nav?

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 11:01 amTuesday, June 26, 201224 Comments

iOS 6 will indeed include turn-by-turn navigation capabilities…

Waze CEO: Apple going ‘thermonuclear’ on Google Maps

Friday, June 15, 2012 1:31 pmFriday, June 15, 201237 Comments

Noam Bardin, chief executive officer of Waze Inc., talks about the company’s mapping software…

Apple’s WWDC 2012 aftermath: Winners and losers

Thursday, June 14, 2012 9:25 am8 Comments

It was the first WWDC without Steve Jobs, and Tim Cook…

Apple using Waze data in new iOS 6 Maps

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:01 pmWednesday, June 13, 201217 Comments

Details about exactly what is being used has been intentionally left vague…

Apple takes aim at Google with new in-house Maps with amazing Flyover, even smarter Siri

Tuesday, June 12, 2012 1:15 pm16 Comments

Apple Inc. took the wraps off its own mobile mapping service and improved the search…

TomTom shares surge on Apple deal

Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:44 amTuesday, June 12, 201222 Comments

Shares in Dutch navigation device maker TomTom NV have surged on news…

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