{"id":66858,"date":"2012-12-13T07:58:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T05:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=66858"},"modified":"2012-12-13T08:23:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T06:23:41","slug":"google-maps-app-returns-to-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/66858-google-maps-app-returns-to-iphone.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps app returns to iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Inc&#8217;s mobile navigation application Google Maps will now be available in Apple Inc&#8217;s app store, the Internet search giant said on its official blog.<\/p>\n<p>The Google Maps app will be compatible with any iPhone or iPod Touch that runs iOS 5.1 or higher, the company said in a blog post. (http:\/\/link.reuters.com\/jek64t)<\/p>\n<p>Apple launched its own mapping service, and dropped Google&#8217;s, in early September when it launched the iPhone 5 and rolled out the highly anticipated update to its mobile software platform iOS 6.<\/p>\n<p>But users complained that Apple&#8217;s new map service, based on Dutch navigation equipment and digital map maker TomTom NV&#8217;s data, contained glaring geographical errors and lacked features that made Google Maps so popular.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Apple fixes dangerous Australian map error\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/66646-apple-fixes-dangerous-australian-map-error.html\">Apple fixes dangerous Australian map error<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Apple Maps could be deadly: Australian police\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/66516-apple-maps-could-be-deadly-australian-police.html\">Apple Maps could be deadly: Australian police<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Apple Maps exec booted over apology letter\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/63430-apple-maps-exec-booted-over-apology-letter.html\">Apple Maps exec booted over apology letter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Google Maps app is once again available for Apple&#8217;s iPhone, according to the Google blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340871,"featured_media":58655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,605,2272,691],"class_list":["post-66858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-google-maps","tag-ios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66864,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66858\/revisions\/66864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}