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Google submitting a turn by turn direction enabled google maps app is some sort of win nonetheless.

• Gigablah 14y ago
  For Google, yes.
  • quux 14y ago
    And users. I suppose any win for users of iOS is a win of some kind for Apple too.
    • css771 14y ago
      At that point they're actually Google users too. So in the end, users win. Google along with them. And Apple saves face.
  • criley 14y ago
    How is going from having your app presinstalled on every device and being maintained, for free, by Apple developers to having to write and maintain your own app and put it in the app store a "win"?? There is no win here for Google! Less users (not everyone is going to install it), less data coming in, more money spent, having to hire more dedicated iOS coders inhouse at Google... People have a weird definition of "win".
    • evandena 14y ago
      I think you're missing some of the major pros for Google... With this new app, they control all of the branding, all of the upstream data gathering, and paid ads.
    • jlgreco 14y ago
      Maps on iOS were using Google's data, but the application was not Google's. The only thing Google was getting from that was a licensing fee. Now they have a mapping application, which means now they have users.