On HK/Macau telcos, Maps shows Zhuhai and Shenzhen as blank expanses of beige with a few white lines--China's SEZs look like deserts.

But Yunnan-based blogger Anthony Drendel, who uses China Unicom, . "AutoNavi is a local Chinese company that provides very detailed maps of China," wrote Drendel. "Google was never going to be able to map China as well as it has other parts of the globe because the Chinese government doesn't trust the motives of foreign companies--and it especially doesn't trust Google."

Closer to home, Maps has stripped Hong Kong of its MTR exits, reduced our urbanscape to glib swathes of beige and white, and consigned most of Hong Kong's Chinese-names to the dustbin of history. If you haven't switched to iOS6 yet, stick with iOS5 until, as Cook promises, Apple improves this half-baked mobile application, which currently looks like a beta-release.

If you've already switched, well, at least Maps provides some entertainment value. The Apple Map app can't map the Apple store they just put on Hong Kong's map. Search "Apple store Kowloon Tong Hong Kong" on a Hong Kong telco and it pins it on Renfrew Street near LoK Fu Park [sic]. Type "Hong Kong Festival Walk" into the app and you get a big dialog box reading "No Results Found."

Google Maps finds the Apple Store on Tat Chee Avenue.