Finally, Apple Releases Google Maps App for Apple iPhone

After eternally bashed for its defective iPhone iOS 6 mapping system, which had led numerous tourists to Australia to get lost in the land Down Under, Apple has finally released the much reliable and dependable Google Maps app for its Apple iPhone products.

Via a standalone, downloadable app, it brings Google's mapping service to the iPhone and the iPod Touch, containing features such as voice guided turn-by-turn navigation, public transport directions, live traffic and street view.

"People around the world have been asking for Google Maps on iPhone," Daniel Graf, director of Google Maps for Mobile, said. "It's designed from the ground up to combine the comprehensiveness and accuracy of Google Maps with an interface that makes finding what you're looking for faster and easier."

This is not to say however that Apple will already dismount its own Maps app.

"We're putting all of our energy into making it right. And we have already had several software updates. We've got a huge plan to make it even better," Tim Cook, Apple CEO, told Bloomberg News earlier.

Just earlier this week, police authorities in Australia advised tourists visiting the resource-rich nation not to use Apple's new iPhone mapping system after rescuing tourists who got lost after relying on the glitch-filled app.

The tourists, who were supposed to go to Mildura in the Victorian state of Australia, got lost and were found 70 kilometres away to a national park, under the scorching heat of 46 degrees.