Apple has sold 400+ million iOS devices. That's 116 million devices that are still on iOS 5. You are the one on drugs if you don't think 116 million is a significant number!
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Apple Fires Manager Responsible for Maps as Eddy Cue Turns to Outsiders for Help
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Apple has sold 400+ million iOS devices. That's 116 million devices that are still on iOS 5. You are the one on drugs if you don't think 116 million is a significant number!
Mark
I can't help it if you don't believe the facts. But you *used* to be talking about it making financial sense. Again. There's no logical way it makes more *financial* sense to pour money into a net drain on a company's revenue than it makes to pour money into a net revenue source for a company.
You're right that Android and Maps don't define Google. Search defines Google and Ads define Google. Search because that's the company's main source of eyeballs, and Ads because that's the company's main source of revenue (selling those eyeballs to advertisers). Anything else Google does is an attempt to find other avenues to attract and sell those eyeballs to advertisers.
I like how you claim that "Google defines Google", but somehow it's not equally true that 'Apple defines Apple'. No support for the position, or even an attempt to justify it other than claiming that it's iOS, but it *can't* possibly be Ads for Google, even though that provides a larger proportion of Google's income than iOS does for Apple.
You're pretty good at sound-bites, but you're lousy at analysis. Ever thought of running a political campaign?
I'm going to give you a minute to consider why your math and conclusions are wrong, because they absolutely are.
I'm not the one making assumptions. You are. Your theory is completely reasonable. I'm just pointing out there are other interpretations of the facts that are also reasonable. Hence my use of the words "or" and "maybe".
A month? Forstall's dismissal and the reorganization were announced in the same day. Eddie Cue firing someone a few weeks after he takes responsibility for a new area isn't evidence of a prolonged reorganization.
Hyperbole aside, no, it doesn't.
Well, to be fair, it's not just Apple's maps that did this. Just installed the Google maps app and it gave the same directions...
Thank you for your honesty. How refreshing and unbiased
I'm not a fanboy either but people seem to forget that TomTom helped to develop this with Apple, so there were many cooks in the kitchen, and many people could have stopped it before it was released. Ordinarily I would say that the buck still ends at Apples doorstep because they released it, but even that's not fair because they only had two options at the time; either release a Maps app or have no maps app included at all. Including google was not an option after what google did to Apple and their customers. So Apple rolled the dice and lost. They will rebuild the app and it will one day become the premier mapping app around. I have no doubt on that. They're already well into working on that. All we can do is wait and in the mean time find something else to use. I'm growing rather fond of Navigon myself 
It’s not bad 5 years later. We get speed limits and lane assist. Really simple but some simple tasks can be hard to do. Siri went downhill tho and there’s this new thing called amazon Elegra that’s taking over the market. Googles trying to but name brand ellena is taking most the space in the field