Google Maps for iOS review: finally back on track

When Google’s new map app for iPhone was released, I could not have been more pleased. You see I’d just recovered from a recent cursing and murdering spell brought on by Apple’s terrible joke for a mapping app on my iPhone. Approximately two minutes after downloading Google Maps, I was sold. Let me tell you why.

Two weeks ago while on the way to a wedding, I was directed by Apple’s attempt at mapping my country to a parking lot in a small town, instead of a pleasant guest house B&B in a farming community 15km outside of this little hamlet. Fire and brimstone swearing ensued, and I was an hour late. So when I opened Google Maps after a speedy download, the “guy-who-cant-read-a-map” sneering from wedding guests popped into my mind, and I decided the same address search would be a fair and equivalent test. After all, if Cupertino’s favourite yuppie son could not find a very popular wine farm in one of the most respected drinking areas in South Africa, what chance would Google have? Well first up the correct result.

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