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Re:The Amazing iOS 6 Maps by SoftwareMaven on Thursday September 20, 2012 @07:12PM (#4551252)
It was apple that chose not to continue this agreement.

Do you have evidence of this? I find the history of this fascinating and have my own theories (that I've posted elsewhere), but this is a pretty definitive statement that isn't the way I imagined things going down.

Re:The Amazing iOS 6 Maps by angryasian on Friday September 21, 2012 @02:40AM (#4552613)
from a business standpoint. Google would be the #1 search for browser and places/location on the top two mobile platforms globally equaling to over 90% of the smartphone searches. What possible reason would there be for google to not want to be the default places/location search on the ios platform ?