Apple has released its own map program. Google was removed from the Apple equation on iOS6 but now with all the problems happening with the new Apple maps, people are clamoring for something better, like Google Maps perhaps. Well those wishes will not be coming true. At least anytime soon. Eric Schmidt, Google?s Executive Chairman has weighed in on the subject.
“We think it would have been better if they had kept ours. But what do I know?” Schmidt 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. So it something has to be said about this. Will Apple decide to give people a choice or is it becoming that evil empire that says you use our, equipment, our OS and now our applications, without choices. This will alienate more consumers then bring them in.