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josephcooney on Sept 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Apple's Obsession with Google Is Hurting Apple

Apple had the choice of shipping nothing at all, or licencing map data from someone else.

SoftwareMaven on Sept 24, 2012 [–]

The "license other" has been covered elsewhere, but do you really believe the current solution is more of a problem for Apple than no maps would have been?

josephcooney on Sept 24, 2012 | [–]

No, but they still had a choice.

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