Three Thoughts: iOS 6 Maps
What an exciting month September 2012 has been for smartphones! We truly are spoiled. We got three major announcements in the span of a week, they were: Nokia announced the Lumia 920, their first Windows Mobile 8 phone, it will be a thing of beauty. Motorola announed the Razr HD, also a thing of beauty. Then Apple announced the iPhone 5. As part of the announcement for the iPhone 5, iOS 6 was introduced. iOS 6 is now the operating system for Apple gadgets (i.e., iPad, iPod, and iPhone) including some older generations. The biggest change in iOS 6 was the addition of Apple's own Maps app. Since there is only room for one native Maps app that meant, goodbye to Google Maps. After using Apple Maps for two days here are three quick thoughts. Thought 1: Overall this is a better mapping experience simply because of the addition of turn-by-turn navigation and its integration with Siri. The first thing I did to test out the new Maps app was to ask Siri, "Directions to the nearest Ta