A vehemently disagree with your opinion/assessment of Apple's Maps. It has worked fine for me whenever I've used it. Google's maps on iOS is worse in my actual, real world use of both.
I'm curious, what exactly have you used it for that you found it so flawless? My experience has been the opposite.
- Try looking for 1 Battery Park Plaza, NY NY (my company's home office in a major office building in Manhattan), it can't find it. This is not some podunk address that no one uses either. If you search by company name, it places it in a building around the corner from the actual office.
- in Google Maps, I can find my home address by inputting (numbers changed for privacy) '1234 168 Ct'. Doing the same search on Apple Maps, places my house about two miles north of it's actual location. However, if I input my street as '168
th Ct', it finds it. That's just silly.
The 3D satellite function is very pretty, I will admit that. However in real use application in ways that actually matter to me, the app is just plain bad. The heavily tinted rose colored you use to view this app just doesn't match up with mine, Tim Cook's, and pretty much the entire tech world's experience.
I'm not an Apple basher, or else I wouldn't have converted from an Android phone and tablet to an Apple phone and tablet. That being said, trying to claim that Apple Maps is wonderful and everyone else is either out to get Apple or just being exaggerating is simply ignoring reality. It's bad. Period. Except for maybe you, I guess you're the one lucky one.