Why Google Maps for iPhone is good for Apple

Macworld
Dec 13, 2012, 12:00 pm336 pts
Despite its aesthetic achievements, Apple’s Maps app in iOS 6 left a lot of users unhappy. Turns out that the years Google spent building out its mapping data were hugely important; Apple’s data—which powered its new Maps app—didn’t have the real world, real user testing that Google Maps benefited from. That’s…

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