- Our long national nightmare is over: Google Maps for iPhone is available at the App Store (link opens iTunes). It's free and works with iPhone 3GS and up, 3rd gen. iPod touch and up, and is optimized for the larger screen of the iPhone 5. The app includes turn-by-turn directions, Street View, and mass transit directions.
- David Pogue reports that Google has admitted that the iOS version of Maps is better than its Android counterpart. Kind of weird admission, that. You'd assume they'd want the best experience on their own OS. This is the kind of thing that always undermines Android for me. If it's so great, why doesn't the company that makes it also make the best apps for it? Why are its best apps on a competing platform?
- The new Google Maps comes at the right time: Australian police have begun warning against using Apple Maps, lest they become lost in the wild. (Of course, there have also been warnings about Google Maps, too.)
- A week ago, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that TV was now "an area of intense interest" for the company in an interview with NBC. Now, the Wall Street Journal reports that Apple is testing manufacturing of multiple designs for a TV. Looks like 2013 is the year we'll finally get an Apple HDTV, huh?
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