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So when Apple decides drop Google Maps as their default, they probably thought that it'll bring more value to their iOS platform. But obviously that didn't happen.

Now that Google Maps is back on iOS, I agree that it's a win for Apple as well. But someone please explain it to me how it could have been a win for Apple to drop Google Maps in the first place?

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Relations between the two companies were hardly cordial. I suspect Apple didn't want to be beholden to a rival over what was becoming an increasingly core service.

Remember Apple already give Samsung, another competitor, a shed load of each money for components. Why enrich someone you're competing with?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/12/13/ios_google_ma...

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