I would prefer a faster bootup time and search field that doesn't lag for 3 seconds before bringing up the keyboard.
Maybe it's because I'm using an iPhone 5S but it would still be nice.
Maybe it's because I'm using an iPhone 5S but it would still be nice.
It's not.
I'm on an iPhone X and just tested and the keyboard shows up immediately when I activate the search field.
(I've been meaning to upgrade to a newer phone, maybe an LG V10 or V20, soon for several reasons; the S5 has been great but it's now 4 years old. But I guess Google Maps being slow isn't a valid reason any more.)
In a technical sense, both apps are displaying all the same kinds of things: satellite tiles, scalable road vectors, rotated outlined text for street names, 3D buildings if you like, etc. But Google Maps is dog-slow compared to Apple Maps at doing it.
Is efficient painting logic for a maps app on mobile a genuinely-hard problem that Apple Maps is being really clever at solving? Or is it an easy problem that Google Maps is being really stupid at solving?
If it's open in the background it's nearly instant to switch to it, unlike some other apps.