> Yeah, duh. That's not as obvious and not true for most applications. A game or a note taking app will be great or crappy regardless of the area. Maps is an a

> Yeah, duh. That's not as obvious and not true for most applications. A game or a note taking app will be great or crappy regardless of the area. Maps is an application where the same version works great in on area and then completely unusable in another geographical area. That's pretty odd if you think about it. So then it leads to endless debate "It works great for me, better than Google maps" and of course there will be someone who says "NO! It's complete crap and never works". And both may be right. > And I assume even Americans and Californians want to travel to places with bad coverage. Most people don't travel that much. iPhone and Apple's ecosystem in general was never positioned as affordable to 7+ billion people everywhere. I don't know if Apple is going to bother mapping details of some remote village just become an iPhone carrying American might visit. Maybe eventually, but they'll start with US probably. > The remaining 7+ billion people, tough luck. Sure. Apple doesn't run a charity and providing details and accurate navigation and maps everywhere is not something they're in the business for.