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		jpxxx on Sept 20, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Amazing iOS 6 Maps There is no possibility that this platform change was over Apple's inability to come up with the cash to license a competitor's dataset. Their move was political, strategic, or both.

fpgeek on Sept 21, 2012 [–]

Then they could have spent the money hiring armies like Google's to get the map data right.

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