Starting with iOS 6 Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), decided to withdraw the application Google Maps from iOS to stop paying large sums of money for system licensing, or because Google didn't want to implement a turn-by-turn navigation system in Apple's terms, and implemented Apple Maps for operating system users. The removal of the Google Maps application from an ecosystem of over 400 million iDevices was a heavy blow for Google, but the launch of a dedicated application in the App Store solved part of the problem. Even so, Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google's board of directors, stated that he would like Google Maps to return to iOS in the form of a native application.
Speaking in an interview at an AllThingsD conference, Eric Schmidt said that Apple could take the Google Maps app from the App Store and turn it into a native iOS app, but of course that won't happen. happen. Despite Google's efforts to convince Apple that Google Maps must be natively present in iOS, the company from Cupertino will not make this decision, especially since it invests serious amounts of money in Apple Maps. In the future, Apple Maps will fall behind Google Maps in some respects, but it is unlikely that it will be able to surpass the Google system.
