Apple Is Heavily Promoting Alternative Map Apps In The App Store

Drew Olanoff

Drew Olanoff has over 10 years of marketing, PR, customer service and support, relationship building and management, product management, and technical support experience in multiple verticals. Online, including mobile. He prides himself on being a connector. Connecting people, stories, information. He has worked under some amazingly talented and gifted PR pros while working for startups as a “Director of Community”,... → Learn More

Friday, September 28th, 2012

Now that Apple has told the world that it didn’t come with its best offering for Maps, the company is now featuring other map applications heavily within the App Store in case you didn’t notice:

It’s also showing up for the iPad:

This is pretty bold stuff from Apple, I have to say. It’s good for users, and good for competitors. Oh, Google, where art thou?

P.S. Apple is taking a cut on those paid maps apps. Smart.


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