I find the Apple Maps navigation to be far more polished and human. Whenever they added "After the stop sign, at the next light turn right" made it my goto nav app.
The search is still not great compared to Google Maps, though.
Apple maps has the following drawbacks for me:
- no public transport routing where I live
- much worse satellite images
For all other uses, especially usability, it's superior to the extremely slow and cumbersome Google Maps. Both have odd UI bugs.
I want to use Apple maps, but I just can't stand that the review boxes shunt me to the app store to download the Yelp app.
I might be biased, because I live in one of the cities with the updated maps data, sure, but I find that it handles most of my use cases just as well as Google Maps.