Strange. The way I read his article was "Apple was between a rock and a hard place. They chose the hard place because that made more sense for them". He doesn't

Strange. The way I read his article was "Apple was between a rock and a hard place. They chose the hard place because that made more sense for them". He doesn't praise Maps. He describes why he thinks Apple chose to make a less than perfect Maps app, i.e., "made a compromise when ideal options weren't tenable".