The abandonment of the Google Maps was Steve Jobs

The late CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, was the person who made ​​the decision to stop using Google Maps navigation service in devices based on iOS. This information reported unnamed insider sources agency Bloomberg. Shortly before his death, Jobs became a staunch opponent of Google, which he accused of is that it copies the capabilities of smartphones iPhone, while holding the release of turn-based navigation for Apple. At the same time, it is a turn-based navigation positioned as an advantage Android-smartphones. And shortly before he appointed Forstolla Scott (Scott Forstall) led some secret project, which was created on the third floor of the second building at the headquarters in Cupertino Aple. Two former senior Apple employee also reported that Jobs is considering options for disposal of Google search default. Reject such solutions made ​​him just what many in the U.S. will be disappointed by the lack of search engine Google, and forced conversion to use Yahoo or Bing. This information is indirectly confirmed by the fact that in January 2010, representatives of Apple and Microsoft have been negotiating the possibility of using the search engine Bing as the default option in iOS. However, at the time the comparison share Bing and Google was not quite in favor of the former.