In January of 2007, Apple presented to the whole world the iPhone terminal, a smartphone that would permanently change users' perception of such a device and would start a revolution in the field of mobile telephony. This device contained some of the functions we have today in iOS, it had a navigation application, but implementation decision it was taken just a few weeks before the presentation event. Steve Jobs wanted to show the whole world how many opportunities the touch screen of the iPhone offers, so he ordered his engineers to make such an application, he concluded an agreement with Google and thus the iPhone 2G had the Maps application that works on the basis of Google Maps.
Including a maps app on the first iPhone was not even part of the company's original plan as the phone's unveiling approached in January 2007. Just weeks before the event, Mr. Jobs ordered a mapping app to show off the capabilities of the touch-screen device . Two engineers put together a maps app for the presentation in three weeks, said a former Apple engineer who worked on iPhone software, and who declined to be named because he did not want to speak publicly about his previous employer. The company hastily cut a deal with Google to use its map data.
At that time, Eric Schmidt was the CEO of Google and a member of Apple's board of directors, the relations between the two companies were close and the collaboration was logical. Now things are completely different, Apple gave up Google Maps in favor of an application which upset many users, but I think that in the end the decision of those from Cupertino will turn out to be a good one, the problem is that we will have to wait a few years until we get to achieve this.
