Apple launched its Maps with the IOS 12 but has yet to update the new features of regions. First released in 2012, Apple Maps replaced Google Maps as the default map system on Apple devices. It drew early criticism from users and reviewers for incorrect directions, sparse data about public transportation, and various other bugs and errors. Further software development has addressed many of the criticisms.
These features include 3D landmarks, improved views of parks, buildings, airports, and shopping malls, and offer the new Look Around feature. In addition, the new version provides more road coverage and improved and faster navigation.
The latest countries to get the new updates are Germany and Singapore. With the latter being the first Asian country to receive the new Maps. Users in eleven other countries are already using the new iteration. It’s believed that France and Monaco are next on the list.
Initial Release
Apple revealed that the application would replace Google Maps as the default web mapping service for iOS. Apple also announced that the application would include turn-by-turn navigation, 3D maps, Flyovers and 3D maps, and the virtual assistant Siri. The mapping service was released on September 19, 2012. Following the launch, Apple Maps was heavily criticized, which resulted in a public apology by Apple CEO Tim Cook in late September and the departure of two key employees of Apple.
Google Maps was the default mapping app in iOS from the first generation iPhone in 2007. In late 2009, tensions between Google and Apple started when the Android version of Google Maps featured turn-by-turn navigation, a feature which the iOS version lacked. At the time, Apple argued that Google collected too much user data.
When They made iOS 6 available, Google Maps could only be accessed by iOS 6 users via the web. Although Google did not immediately launch an iOS version of Maps, shortly after the announcement of Apple Maps, Google did add a Flyover feature to its virtual globe application Google Earth. Three months later, in December 2012, Google Maps was released in the App Store. This version of Google Maps, unlike the previous version, featured turn-by-turn navigation. Shortly after it was launched, it was the most popular free application in the App Store.
Speculation around Apple creating a mapping service of its own arose in 2009 after computer magazine Computerworld reported that Apple had acquired Jaron Waldman’s company Placebase, an online mapping service, in July of that year. The CEO of Placebase became a part of Apple’s “Geo Team”. In the following two years, They acquired two more mapping related companies that specialized in 3D maps. Poly9 in 2010 and C3 Technologies in 2011. C3 Technologies’ imagery was later used for the Flyovers feature in Apple Maps. Earlier in 2011, Apple indicated its plan for a mapping service when it stated on its website that it was collecting location data to create “an improved traffic service in the next couple of years” for iPhone users. In September 2012, when Apple Maps was released, a “source” connected to both Google and Apple Maps claimed to technology website TechCrunch that Apple was recruiting Google employees that worked on Google Maps.
This is the fourteenth time that Apple has expanded its new map data since its public launch in September 2018.
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