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E-mail directions and the lucky recipient will get a PDF(!) showing the route and turn-by-turn directions. Map locations are e-mailed as a map image and a vCard attachment with the address. Send directions to someone on a device running iOS 6 or later and the recipient will be sent right into the iOS maps application. Sharing directions or map locations ranges from seamless to awkward. The predictably named Maps application should be familiar to anyone who has used Apple maps in iOS 6, right down to the graphics and icons. Should Mac users have felt slighted that only iOS devices had access to Apple maps during this past year? Perhaps not, but it doesn’t matter now because Mavericks lets Mac users join the ranks of Apple maps users. Apple has been scrambling to overcome a terrible launch and restore faith in its new mapping service.

#IBOOKS MAC OS X MAVERICKS ANDROID#

Part of the reason that Apple abandoned Google Maps in iOS 6 was that it was falling behind the Web and Android incarnations of Google Maps. And as with the Mac App Store, there’s no equivalent of browser tabs or multiple windows to make browsing the store a bit more flexible.Īpple got the important part right: iBooks provides a pleasant, uncluttered way to read iBookstore purchases on a Mac.

The network-resident store-that’s-not-really-a-webpage is a bit clunky, often feeling strangely slower on the Mac than it does in iOS. The pre-release versions suffered from the expected crop of cosmetic and functional bugs. This is definitely a version 1.0 product. It can also import and organize PDFs, but reading one launches OS X’s Preview application.

IBooks can read DRM-free EPUB books in addition to books purchased from the iBookstore. The iBookstore should look familiar to anyone who frequents Apple’s other digital marketplaces.

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