The virtual gloves are off! Once the best of friends, Google and Apple have become sworn enemies, battling in courtrooms and in the consumer marketplace. In the latest version of Apple’s iPhone software, which became available last week, Apple removed two mainstay Google apps — Maps and YouTube. Consumers are innocent bystanders of the brawl in which some would say Apple started. (Depending on who you ask lol) IPhone users now have an extra step to download the YouTube app from the App Store and, so far, Google has given no indication that it will offer a maps app. Apple’s maps, meanwhile, are littered with flaws, some laughable, like a bridge that appears to collapse crossing the Tacoma Narrows Strait of Puget Sound. This battle has only just begun and as long as Apple keeps suing Android the end is nowhere in sight.
No comments:
Post a Comment