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It's interesting that Google reportedly demanded Apple allow Latitude in Maps on the iPhone as a prerequisite for providing turn-by-turn navigation. Apple refu
by jlmorton 13y ago
It's interesting that Google reportedly demanded Apple allow Latitude in Maps on the iPhone as a prerequisite for providing turn-by-turn navigation. Apple refused, built their own maps product...and then Google cancels Latitude?
http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/09/26/disagreements-over-turn-by-turn-directions-prompted-apple-to-ditch-google-maps http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/09/26/disagreements-over...
- chalst 13y agoI think the Apple Insider piece is a problematic summary of Paczowski's piece, and leads to a mistaken idea of what went wrong with the Google-Apple negotiations The original article is at http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/09/26/disagreements-over-turn-by-turn-directions-prompted-apple-to-ditch-google-maps http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/09/26/disagreements-over... Paczowski's article says that Google's request to include Latitude was one of four items that were "major points of contention between the two companies" (besides the general deterioration in the relationship between the two companies), while claiming that voice navigation was the most important. Nowhere is it suggested that inclusion of Latitude was non-negotiable or the point on which negotiations crumbled.
- hahainternet 13y agoDon't trust a single word that comes out of AI. It's literally a pro Apple conspiracy theorist site.