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Apple’s New Maps App Was Steve Jobs’ Idea

Steve Jobs

If you’re looking for someone to blame for Apple ditching Google Maps on the iPhone, try Steve Jobs. The former Apple CEO and co-founder was the one who initiated the effort to replace Google Maps on the iPhone with Apple’s own mapping application, according to a new report from Bloomberg BusinessWeek. “Apple insiders say Jobs himself initiated the mapping project, putting mobile software chief Forstall in charge, and he installed a secret team on the third floor of Building 2 on Apple’s campus to replace Google Maps on the iPhone,” BusinessWeek reports. “At the time of his death, Jobs had come to loathe Google.” Read the full story at Mashable.