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I don't have a source handy, but I'm pretty sure Maps.app for iOS was written in-house by Apple.
by martingordon 15y ago
I don't have a source handy, but I'm pretty sure Maps.app for iOS was written in-house by Apple.
- culturestate 15y agoThis is true. SJ talks about it in one of the Mossberg interviews, I think D8.
- kelnos 15y agoAnd the maps app on Android, written by Google, is superior in pretty much every way to its iOS counterpart. Even ignoring the navigation component.
- martingordon 15y agoI agree that Maps on Android is superior to Maps on iOS, just as native Gmail on Android is better than Gmail on iOS, but the parent was using iOS Maps as an example of a good Google iOS app – it isn't a good example because Google didn't write Maps for iOS. It's not about whether Apple writes better iOS apps than Google does for Android, it's about whether Google makes any good apps for iOS.
- khafra 15y agoEveryone seems to have missed my point, which was that Google has never created a good iOS app. Google Maps is the closest thing to a good iOS app that involves Google. So we have no reason to give them any slack on this; the way we forgave Apple for the iPhone 4 antenna.