This is huge!

So huge that it's impossible to stand back far enough to photograph the entire screen.

I'll be glad to have it for the occasional Street View check, and for transit (Google's site already does all this on iPhone, but an app would be nicer).

But I don't expect to use it much... people seem to be figuring out that iOS 6 Maps is actually pretty good in daily use. (Even if they have forgotten all the errors they still run into with Google Maps. Google seems to get a free pass on errors that cause a furor when it's Apple! Funny how people loved TomTom and Waze, but now that data's suddenly not good enough with Apple in the picture...)

I can see Bigfoot in these hinty photos. Why not post complete screenshots instead of these teasers? Unless it's not real.

I don't need Google Maps anymore thank you.

And this will be as useful to most users as Chrome is on iOS.

It'll be good to have as an option but I'll probably use Apple maps unless it can't find something.

Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton 
Why not post complete screenshots instead of these teasers? Unless it's not real.

Same reason the original iPad leaked pictures were only partial and in the dark like this, probably. Those were real, while the "Office on iOS" images of this type so far haven't been.

Am I the only person who likes the new Maps app? It fixes a few of my pet peeves including the fact that the old app's route highlighter blocked the traffic. I've found it to be accurate every time I've tried to use it and it's much faster on my 3G iPhone 4.

Apple maps is great, but leaving out public transit was a huge mistake, that's got to be the main reason I even used Maps.

For everyone NOT living in the USA this is pretty cool. Currently Apple maps puts my place of work about 120km in the wrong direction in Australia, and my second home in Germany is only rendered in black and white. I mean black and white serious WTF?

I know I am only in the 3% of IOS user bothered by the shitty apple maps, but to me personally it matters enough to wait patiently to upgrade to IOS6 and am holding of on buying a IPhone5.

In the meantime I'm starting to look around for alternatives to replace my apple gear, cause without maps I don't need an Iphone. Without an IPhone I need a different media player, so I don't need I-Tunes and without I-Tunes I don't need my Apple TV. And subsequently can also move my dev platform from OS-X back to Linux, and if I do that I don't need to pay premium for a mac book pro.

All because of a simple stupid maps app. Crazy.

I expect this is going to happen sooner or later. Google can't afford to give up this prime customer base and be left with just the Android low-enders.

I think Apple should, and will, allow them to go about it the same way that anyone else with an App would. I am looking forward to seeing the outcome of this horse race -- unless Google can offer their most cutting edge product, it won't fly.