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They've won the current PR battle, but if they build a Google Maps for iOS, they will win the next PR battle. If Apple is reluctant to approve a Google Maps ap
by steve8918 14y ago
They've won the current PR battle, but if they build a Google Maps for iOS, they will win the next PR battle.
If Apple is reluctant to approve a Google Maps app, and Google claims that they have the app ready and waiting but Apple won't approve it, customers will be pissed. This would put even more pressure on Apple.
Google could absolutely prove anti-competitiveness of the App store, by simply releasing the app that existed on iOS5. If it's the exact same app, with no new features, Google could ask the question why it was good enough for iOS5, but not iOS6. If Apple is restricting its availability simply because Apple has their own maps app, it could definitely be shown as being anti-competitive, and if the DOJ or FTC started to investigate this, Apple would be in heaps of trouble. Apple would be stupid to risk getting a decision forced down their throats by the government, a la Microsoft.
The one thing that Google may be doing is waiting until after Thanksgiving or Christmas in order to release their new App. They might be letting the bad press over Maps could hurt sales of iPhone 5, and then releasing an app after January.
- w33ble 14y ago"Google could absolutely prove anti-competitiveness of the App store, by simply releasing the app that existed on iOS5" I was under the impression that Apple was the one that wrote that app, and they just sourced all the map data from Google.
- salman89 14y agoI guess I'm just failing to see what Google has to gain, and I feel that they have more to lose. Right now they have gained a key competitive advantage in the minds of consumers. Even iPhone fanboys will have a hard time arguing that Google does not have a better maps app. What will they have to gain by proving the App store anticompetitive? Google will not make any sort of money from the app anyways. By releasing a Maps app for iPhone, Google will basically giving away for free what Apple had been (likely) paying them for before. How does that make sense?
- eyko 14y agoNobody knows if apple is paying them and it all seems like it was free for Apple (but would have been renegotiated in 2013). Google makes money from users using google maps, not by apple paying google to use google maps. http://www.quora.com/How-much-does-Apple-pay-Google-to-use-their-maps http://www.quora.com/How-much-does-Apple-pay-Google-to-use-t...