Apple to navigate its way away from Google Maps this year

The Wall Street Journal has a lengthy and detailed report on Apple’s impending move from Google Maps as the mapping application in iOS to a new proprietary solution.  It is the latest and strongest evidence yet that Google Maps may be gone from your iPhone and iPad with the release of iOS 6.

The article, written by Jessica E. Vascellaro and Amir Efrati, outlines the relationship between Apple and Google since the inception of the iPhone in 2007.  It covers the what could best be described as a rocky relationship between the two tech giants with the release of the Android mobile OS being the tipping point for much of the rancor between the companies we see today.  Indeed as has been well documented in the past, Steve Jobs felt that Eric Schmidt and Google blindsided him with the release of Android.

If you are interested in the back story of how Apple got to the point of developing their own mapping solution, this is a fantastic read and I highly recommend spending the time to read it in detail.

If however you are looking for juicy nuggets on what the new mapping solution will be, you’ll need to look elsewhere.  The article does hint that we could see a preview of it as early as next week at WWDC but no significant details of the mapping solution are covered in the article.

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