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Do you have a source for that? All the chatter I've heard is that Apple Maps is actually really useful in China.

EDIT: Blog post from someone living in China extolling the virtues of iOS 6 maps http://anthonydrendel.com/blog/2012/9/24/ios-maps-and-china....

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Isn't that because they have China using a local dataset, that doesn't even have the rest of the world on the map?

Apple is using AutoNavi (not TomTom) for its map data in China (which Google is using as well). Here's a blog post from someone who lives in China describing why he likes iOS 6 maps more than Google Maps.

http://anthonydrendel.com/blog/2012/9/24/ios-maps-and-china....

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