So there is a lot of controversy and ire on the web over Apple’s removal of Google Maps and adding their own map with less functionality. And for the most part I agree.
As for Googles Maps application, I liked having street view, and more accuracy, but Google maps on iPhone was dreadfully slow. And no turn by turn directions on iPhone, but yes on Android also sucked. Of course I only have an iPhone 4, so no turn by turn directions for me (though they work for Tom Tom, so why not here). And while I could get them on my iPad, that would require me to have the internet turned on all the time, and I don’t have that, as most places I go have WIFI anyway (though I do have the 4G Verizon model).
The apple Maps app is fast though, and I like the 3D view (though again can’t use it on my iPhone where it might be useful), though it doesn’t over much area, but downtown LA looks cool. My biggest problem so far has been inaccuracies in traffic, and it might have to do with crowd sourcing the traffic from other iOS phones, and maybe not many are out at 6 Am when I leave, but I had an extra 30 minutes added to my yesterday travel home time because the traffic report in the app was so wrong. That is unacceptable! And it mostly just shows RED and accidents, no Orange, and the roads are already yellow, so you can’t see when it is yellow. I want more date for traffic, faster and more accurate, as being in LA, it is all about traffic!
And if maps in inaccurate, it is pretty useless. How can they have bought 2 companies and be using Tom Tom data and have it wrong?
UPDATE: Tried using the traffic function again this morning, and in Los Angeles at 6AM, it was totally incorrect. Showing no red on the Freeway where I was, where it should have been solid red, and showing clear where it should have been orange later in my drive. I would rather not have a traffic function than have on that is this bad and this off!