Google Maps cut off from Windows phones?

[Rogifan]

maps.google.com never works for me on the iPad - whether I'm using Safari or another browser.

 

[cynics]

maps.google.com never works for me on the iPad - whether I'm using Safari or another browser.

It should. I don't have issues with mine. Before Google released an app I used there web app quite a bit on my iPhone/iPad.

 

[0dev]

I tried to use Google Maps in Safari before the app and it was buggy as ****, I could never make it work properly. In fact the new Google Maps app isn't exactly much better in all honesty. It looks better but I wouldn't rely on it because it's still very buggy.

 

[3bs]

From what I've been reading, everyone who has a current Google account will be fine using exchange to sync with Google. It's only new accounts that will miss out on EAS.

Google have already paid for us to use it so we're already licenced.

So it doesn't matter if I buy a new WP8 phone and setup my existing email account?

 

[ChazUK]

So it doesn't matter if I buy a new WP8 phone and setup my existing email account?

It does sadly. I posted another reply once looking into it a bit more afterwards. From the end of January, we won't be able to set up any new devices with Exchange Active sync from Google any more..

 

[cynics]

I tried to use Google Maps in Safari before the app and it was buggy as ****, I could never make it work properly. In fact the new Google Maps app isn't exactly much better in all honesty. It looks better but I wouldn't rely on it because it's still very buggy.

I never really had a problem with either in iOS! Maybe an issue with your device?

 

[0dev]

I never really had a problem with either in iOS! Maybe an issue with your device?

I doubt it, my iPhone works fine for everything else and it has a clean install of iOS 6 on it.

 

[Rogifan]

Ah, so I guess Google admits they were doing this as they say there will be a fix "soon". Gotta love the Google/Microsoft ecosystem wars.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/5/3840620/google-bringing-maps-back-to-windows-phone

 

[ReanimationN]

Ah, so I guess Google admits they were doing this as they say there will be a fix "soon". Gotta love the Google/Microsoft ecosystem wars.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/5/3840620/google-bringing-maps-back-to-windows-phone

Well, there you go, they were doing it deliberately. I doubt Google will be making apps for WP and W8 any time soon.