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[quote=jsteele]Just about every time a new iPhone comes out, there is one issue that everyone jumps on to highlight as a flaw. In the iPhone 4, it was the antenna. In reality, that wasn't much of a problem, but you would have thought the entire phone was junk given the publicity. This time, it is the maps. The same maps are in IOS 6 which you can install on earlier iPhones. I've been using the maps since the day IOS 6 was released. I have not found a flaw in them. In a side-by-side comparison with someone using IOS 5, I was able to locate a restaurant that she couldn't. In a discussion with a friend today, he also said that in day-to-day use, he is finding the new maps to be better.

On the down side, there is no street view. So, if you used that, you will miss it. The 3d maps has not been impressive in my experience. The turn-by-turn directions are nothing to brag about, but the earlier maps program didn't have them at all. Transit directions are handed off to a 3rd party app that you have to install. So, again, if you rely on the maps program for transit directions, you may be disappointed.

So, while the maps program is not as full featured as Google Maps on Android, I think it is a vast over statement to call it "terrible". Moreover, maps get better with usage. There are well over 5 million people using the new maps already. There will be rapid improvement.
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