Google Preparing New Maps App for iOS Devices

Apple replaced Google's maps app with Apple Maps in iOS 6.Apple's new Maps app has been perhaps the most discussed and most griped about new feature on iOS 6 so far. In addition to the app omitting transit directions, users discovered that mapping imagery included a confusing cluster of broken roads, misplaced clouds and national monuments all out of whack.We already posted Alternatives Maps Apps for Apple Maps in iOS 6.

According to the Wall Street Journal Google is distributing a version of the application to users outside the company before it submits the app for review and acceptance to Apple’s online App Store, which quoted unnamed sources “with direct knowledge of the matter.” A Google mapping app would compete directly with Apple’s own in-house map app, which was released to widespread scorn and derision when it debuted in the fall.

"We believe Google Maps are the most comprehensive, accurate and easy-to-use maps in the world,” said one of Google spokesperson quoted in the report. “Our goal is to make Google Maps available to everyone who wants to use it, regardless of device, browser or operating system."

Google has been putting the finishing touches on the app before submitting it for approval to the Apple iTunes store, but it is not clear when that will happen.
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