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Google Has No Plans for Alternative Maps App for IPhones
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Google has decided not to step in to assist Apple iPhone users suffering the download of their maps service, and offer an iPhone variant of its own Google Maps.
Apple decided to drop support for Google Maps in its iOS6 software, but the replacement in-house developed version has been widely critisied.
Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt confirmed that the company wasn't working on a replacement mobile app that could be offered to Apple customers to download via the iTunes platform.
"We think it would have been better if they had kept ours. But what do I know?" Schmidt told the Reuters news agency. "What were we going to do, force them not to change their mind? It's their call."
However, he added that while Google hasn't developed a replacement app for iPhone users, any decision about approving such an app for download would have to lay with Apple anyway.
"I'm not doing any predictions. We want them to be our partner. We welcome that. I'm not going to speculate at all what they're going to do. They can answer that question as they see fit," he added.
At this moment in time, the only way to get Google Maps, is to switch to an Android smartphone.
On the web: Reuters
Tags: [google] [apple iphone]
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