Apple reportedly tasks retail employees with highlighting iOS 6 Maps errors
Store managers at Apple's retail locations are said to have begun asking employees to report errors in the mapping database in iOS 6.
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AppleInsider Staff
Apple new Maps app hints company could extend service to Mac, PC browsers
Sharing a link from Apple's new Maps application in iOS 6 automatically forwards Mac and PC users to Google Maps, but the origin URL of "maps.apple.com" hints that Apple Maps could come to non-iOS devices in the future and compete with Google Maps on a wider scale.
Revised Apple website no longer calls iOS 6 Maps most 'powerful'
In the wake of criticism over its Maps application for iOS 6, Apple has revised its website to no longer refer to the software as the most "powerful mapping service ever."
NYT: iOS Maps another internet services blunder for Apple
A New York Times report on Friday says Apple's new iOS Maps app and corresponding service is another casualty of the company's lack of focus in offering reliable internet-based services, and reveals the original iPhone wasn't planned to have mapping software until mere weeks before its debut.
Mikey Campbell
Consumer Reports compares iOS 6 Maps directions to Google's Android Maps
Consumer Reports pitted Apple's new Maps against Google's Android Maps in a "showdown" to see which provides better navigation features.
Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple highlights third-party mapping applications in iOS App Store
A new featured link on the iOS App Store invites users to "Find maps for your iPhone," and lists a number of paid and free alternatives to Apple's own Maps application in iOS 6.
Neil Hughes
Google Maps adds new 45-degree satellite imagery to take on Apple's Flyover
As Apple apologized on Friday for subpar performance of its new iOS 6 Maps application, Google introduced a new feature that competes with Apple's Flyover: 45-degree satellite images.
Apple CEO Tim Cook apologizes to customers for Maps in iOS 6
Apple on Friday published an open letter to customers on behalf of CEO Tim Cook, who formally apologized for Apple's new Maps in iOS 6 and "the frustration this has caused our customers."
Google's "iLost" Motorola ad faked an address to "lose" iOS 6 Maps
Google's Motorola Mobility subsidiary went looking for an address that didn't actually exist in an effort to artificially portray Apple's new iOS 6 Maps as deficient.
Katie Marsal
