To help you outsmart traffic, today we’re excited to announce we’ve closed the acquisition of Waze. This fast-growing community of traffic-obsessed drivers is working together to find the best routes from home to work, every day.
For those who haven’t heard about Waze, Waze has proven that crowdsourced GPS navigation is viable—and it keeps getting better. At its core, Waze gives you voice-enabled GPS directions on your iOS or Android device.
Best of all, it’s free. It’s still not perfect, but if you’re willing to trade a little routing efficiency for features you can’t find on other navigation apps, like real world travel times and up-to-the-minute, user-reported traffic jams, Waze is definitely worth checking out. It’s a close second to Google Maps, our Editors’ Choice for free GPS apps, mainly thanks to that app’s superior voice prompts and overall stability.
Noting that “nothing practical will change†at the company, Waze said it evaluated many options.
Apple Maps are definitely getting better, but the challenge Apple has is that it’s hostage to its vendors – and those vendors are weak these days. TomTom is challenged, whereas Google has an unlimited war chest to better its apps.
So what do you think about this move from Google ?
