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Maps are operating system features that any application can rely on being present. Their are OS APIs that require that the mapping infrastructure be present.
by ghshephard 14y ago
Maps are operating system features that any application can rely on being present. Their are OS APIs that require that the mapping infrastructure be present.
- recoiledsnake 14y agoCan't the APIs stay constant while the supplied data/backend gets changed? After all, isn't that the whole point of having a public API so that the implementation can be changed without changing the calling apps?
- mitchty 14y agoThey could, but Core Location in iOS 6 uses the backend data for things like getting your car route. If I recall correctly Google doesn't let you use their api for things like that. Basically removing the Maps app is one thing, removing new OS features that use the same frameworks is another.
- cma 14y agoWouldn't moving from Google to Apple maps be adding the new OS features rather than removing them?
- mitchty 14y agoThat is what I said. My point being removing/adding Apple Maps isn't the hard part, it was merely to point out that there is more to the mapping api's than an application. And if legally Apple cannot do turn by turn using Google apis, then they cannot provide one to one compatible api's with both. So they just dropped the Google api backended MapKit.