Google says Maps not waiting in wings for iPhone 5 - Times LIVE

Apple launched its own mapping service earlier this month when it began providing the highly anticipated update to its mobile software platform iOS 6 and started selling the iPhone 5.

But users have complained that Apple’s new map service, based on Dutch navigation
equipment and digital map maker TomTom
NV’s data, contains glaring geographical
errors and lacks features that made Google
Maps so popular.

“We think it would have been better if
they had kept ours. But what do I know?”
Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt
said told a small group of reporters in Tokyo.
“What were we going to do, force them not
to change their mind? It’s their call.”
Schmidt said Google and Apple were in constant communication ”at all kinds of levels.” But he said any decision on whether Google Maps would be accepted as an application in the Apple App Store would have to be made by Apple.

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