favicon Original 2007 Google-powered iPhone maps app reportedly built by 2 engineers in 3 weeks

  • iMore Sep 28, 2012, 9:15 pm by: Anthony330 pts
    iMore writes, I've read more than I ever wanted to about maps this week, but this story about how the original, Google-powered Maps.app was built for the original iPhone caught my attention. Here it s from Nick Wingfield and Brian X. Chen of The New York Times: Including a maps app on the first iPhone was not even part of the company’s original plan as the phone’s unveiling approached in January 2007. Just weeks before the event, Mr. Jobs ordered a mapping app to show off the capabilities of the touch-screen device. Two engineers put together a maps app for the presentation in three weeks, said a former...

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