Comments on: Apple Seeking Out Ex-Google Maps Employees http://isource.com/2012/09/24/apple-seeking-out-former-and-current-google-maps-employees/ #1 Source for iPad, iPhone, iPod, Mac and AppleTV Fri, 03 Oct 2014 01:46:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.6 By: Marvin Nakajima http://isource.com/2012/09/24/apple-seeking-out-former-and-current-google-maps-employees/#comment-46370 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:24:11 +0000 http://isource.com/?p=57564#comment-46370 Normally it is the OS owner that makes the decisions about what is ‘allowed’ to be included on the device when shipped. It is more likely Apple decided on their own to drop Google Maps since they were building their own. Like the YouTube app that was originally on the iOS devices it may have been the case that the Google Maps app was originally written by Apple (Google had no say in ‘upgrading’ those 2 apps, otherwise why create ‘new’ apps for submission to the App Store) with API help from Google.

I wonder if the new YouTube app will play all the videos on YouTube now (though I doubt it since a large number are still FLV (Flash) formatted opposed to MP4).

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