If you hate Apple's new Maps app in iOS 6 and are holding out hope that Google will come to your rescue, you may have a lengthy wait ahead of you -- the search giant has yet to even submit their own App Store version yet.
Reuters is reporting that Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has thrown cold water on hopes that the search giant will be providing their own Maps app to the App Store anytime soon.
As controversy over Apple's new Google-free Maps app rages since the release of iOS 6 nearly a week ago, Schmidt has gone on the record to a group of reporters in Tokyo on Tuesday with his own thoughts on the matter.
"We think it would have been better if they had kept ours. But what do I know?" Schmidt commented. "What were we going to do, force them not to change their mind? It's their call."
While Schmidt acknowledges that Google is in frequent communication with Apple "at all kinds of levels," he confirmed that any decision about a Google Maps app hitting the App Store will be at the mercy of Cupertino.
"I'm not doing any predictions," Schmidt elaborated. "We want them to be our partner. We welcome that. I'm not going to speculate at all what they're going to do. They can answer that question as they see fit."
On the subject of doing its own Google Maps app, Schmidt was quick to point out "we have not done anything yet" -- so get used to Apple's new flavor of Maps, folks.
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InternetComplete
September 25, 2012 at 8:31am
Honestly, I don't see why people are so upset over this. Apple maps has worked fine for me, and while I get that people may be mad if they get a business out of place, Google maps was no better when it debuted. Hell, I still get wrong directions from Google maps once in a while. Graphical anomalies and bad information will get fixed quickly, and the more people that use it the better it will get, just as it did with Google maps.
OUfan08
September 25, 2012 at 3:18pm
Agreed, I've taken a couple of business trips and have yet to have issues with Apple Maps. However, in August I had several issues with Google maps giving me bad information.
