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Re:Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy by mike_hearn on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @06:13PM (#10934857)
I suppose it depends what you mean by "usable".

Apple Maps certainly had serious quality issues at launch. Whether they considered building a mapping app to be easier than building an OS, I have no idea. I am sure that many at Apple were under no such illusions. But it was a product made for purely corporate strategy reasons.

Re:Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy by tamana on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @05:08AM (#10937040)
Google puts as much effort into their phones as Apple puts into their maps, and vice versa, with predictable results.