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Google maps back on iPhone

Google Maps has found its way back to the iPhone.

Published: Dec. 15, 2012 at 8:18 a.m. PST
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Google Maps has found its way back to the iPhone.

The world’s most popular online mapping system returned late Wednesday with the release of the Google Maps iPhone app. The release comes nearly three months after Apple Inc. replaced Google Maps as the device’s built-in navigation system and inserted its own map software into the latest version of its mobile operating system.

Apple’s maps application proved to be inferior to Google’s.

The Associated Press

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