I 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 negotiation

I 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.