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It stated the reason on Google's blog:

> After we developed a Latitude application for the iPhone, Apple requested we release Latitude as a web application in order to avoid confusion with Maps on the iPhone, which uses Google to serve maps tiles.

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-latitude-now...

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It stated Google's claimed reason. Which may be "the" reason for some version of "the." However... Even Techcrunch would go on to say something like "We confirmed this account of events with several contacts within Apple and Google."

Very funny.

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