When my GPS broke down, I didn't start using my phone, I just bought another GPS for 99 euro.
(And funny thing is the old one has just some loose wires and could be fixed a few months later by an electrician.)
Which is that iOS users have been denied the luxury of excellent and free turn-by-turn navigation available on Android, and this maps update does nothing to address that.
Of course, they'd undercut all the paid turn-by-turn apps, but they haven't been shy about that sort of thing in the past.
The 99 euro GPS I was talking about was the cheapest in store and it even had Traffic Message Channel (TMC), something the older one didn't.
Also, the GPS would get super hot in the windshield -- I would have never used my phone instead!
Anyhow, all that out of the way, I guess you are right that turn by turn would be nice on iOS.
But since a mobile app depends on a mobile data plan I could never use it when I need the GPS the most: when I'm abroad.
Within the US I guess it would make sense to start using you phone and your data plan as a GPS, but within EU it would get really expensive really fast. That's why a dedicated GPS unit seemed to me like a better idea.
No.
Microsoft was blasted because you had no choice in the matter, even if you wanted to use a different browser than IE, there was no way to make anything but IE behave well with the rest of the OS.
Every other GPS system, including the expensive Navigon package I bought for my iPhone ask you State? City? Street? Number? Oh how I'd love for someone to be able to text me their address while I'm driving and be able to click the link and be automatically routed.
Google's upper hand is in integration. If I had a Tom Tom or a Garmin that could read my email or texts and then start navigating, I'd buy it.
But normal people doesn't.