Hold on a minute... Apple had already started working on replacing Google Maps approximately a year before Google had launched a single Android device?
Wow. Just wow. Now we see how strategically brilliant (and utterly necessary) Android actually was.
"Sources tell The Verge that Apple began work on the iOS 6 maps system nearly five years ago"
http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/20/3363914/wrong-turn-apple-i...