Google Maps Has Arrived at its Destination: the iPhone ? Firmology ...

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Businesses that rely on smartphone mapping technology have another option for powering their mobile workforce.

After getting kicked off the Apple platform once iOS?6 arrived and?a failed attempt by Apple to launch its own mapping app, which caused Apple CEO Tim Cook to issue a public apology?for its shortcomings,?Google has finally re-launched Google Maps on the iPhone. That?s sweet news for business owners that rely on mapping technology to dispatch their employees into the field.

?People around the world have been asking for Google Maps on iPhone. Starting today, we?re pleased to announce that Google Maps is here?rolling out across the world in the Apple App Store. It?s designed from the ground up to combine the comprehensiveness and accuracy of Google Maps with an interface that makes finding what you?re looking for faster and easier.? -Daniel Graf, Director, Google Maps for Mobile

Google Maps for iPhone features include:

• Detailed information on 80 million businesses and points of interest
• See the outside of a destination with street view
• See inside places with?Business Photos
• Voice-guided, turn-by-turn navigation
• Live traffic conditions
• Public transportation information for more than one million public transit stops
• A really fun feature is the ability to send Google feedback if something is wrong simply by shaking the phone.

The new Google Maps app is available in more than 40 countries and 29 languages, including Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish. Download the Google Maps app in the App Store.

The icing on the cake is the Google Maps relaunch video, which pokes fun at Apple with an Apple-esque soundtrack ?Here We Go Now? and dozens of screenshots of Google maps flashing inside its iPhone icon while it downloads. Apple just got owned.

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Written by Philip Nowak

Philip Nowak is the founder of Firmology, a?news?and information media company focused on helping small businesses grow through small business technology and innovation.?You can find Philip on?Google+,?Twitter?and?LinkedIn.

Source: http://www.firmology.com/2012/12/13/google-maps-has-arrived-at-its-destination-the-iphone/

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