I think Samsung will pick up Here. Seems like a bargain for them.

Samsung has been slowly building up their own "shadow stack" for mobile. They have everything from the OS up, but map data is a huge missing piece.

Also, I think Samsung's homegrown Tizen OS has some ambitions on the automobile side, and that's a market where Here has been doing well.

Nokia Maps has almost always been better than Google Maps, it's just not well known. Nokia bought Navteq back in '07 I believe, and I used to use Nokia Maps on my N95, which had A-GPS for fast lock (new tech for GPS-enabled phones back then). People were floored that a phone could find POIs/food and do quality navigation. This was all pre-iPhone too.

Even now the current HERE Maps allows you to cache full countries for offline traveling and a bunch of other small features that add-up to leaving GM in the dust. Full offline caching has saved me in a number of situations. If Apple Maps wanted to compete with GM, they should buy HERE... and rename it to something better. It's been renamed about 4 times over the last 8 years.

Worst company name ever.