Google is winning the battle, but will Apple win the war?

http://thetechblock.com/google-winning-battle-apple-win-war/

by abdophoto • 14 years ago

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freyr• 14 years ago

I agree that the users have won. Despite everybody's initial whining about Apple Maps, our options are much better now than prior to the shake-up.

Totally off-topic, but that's a really obnoxious photo. Why is the author mean-mugging me as I'm trying to read his article? It's distracting, and makes me wonder why I should bother giving him my time.

ignaciogiri• 14 years ago

I totally agree with you. These companies are great because they always think about the users. The users won. For this story, I love Apple for such a great device and I love Google for such a great app. I just need my directions.

j_col• 14 years ago

I vote for none of the above. Let's try not to be pawns in all of this (difficult to achieve I know).

taylodl• 14 years ago

I'm going to be admittedly contrarian and claim Apple, along with their users, won. After all, they got turn-by-turn navigation from Google for free which supposedly Google was wanting to license to Apple for a considerable sum of money.

ryandvm• 14 years ago

Perhaps, but there is an undeniable PR cost that Apple has paid in having to stand around waiting for Google to come rescue their users from a terrible product.

That said, I don't think anyone outside the tech news echo chamber actually cares about this crap. But it definitely has shown the tech world that are chinks in Apple's armor.

Google is winning the battle, but will Apple win the war?

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