Five years ago the android phones and Google android map apps did not even exist when the first iPhone came out.
Google mobile map apps date back SEVEN years, to 2005, with
Google Local for Mobile for any Java enabled handset. It had road and satellite images, GPS support, directions, local search and results dialing. Traffic was later added in 2006 when the name was changed to
Google Maps for Mobile.
As I remember, Apple was nice enough to LET Google release their map app and test it on Apple's IOS platform a few months before your Android was released. That is why Schmidt was thrown off the board.
None of that is correct.
First, see above. Google Maps came out long before the iPhone.
Also, according to the latest insider news, Jobs didn't even consider having maps on the iPhone until three weeks before its debut. Fortunately, Google Maps Mobile had been around for a while by then, and Apple was able to come up with a nice touch based version for Jobs to show off, after quickly getting a license from Google (no doubt with Schmidt's essential help).
So yeah, I guess I would use the latest and greatest five years ago(2007). Everybody is using maps tested from the first map apps on the iPhone. Thank Apple for that.
That's totally backwards. Moreover, Apple can thank all the Google Map users with GPS who came before the iPhone. Without those non-Apple smartphones automatically mapping cells, the first iPhone... cheaply designed without GPS... would not have had usable cell id location services.