Julian Ivan-Alexander

Google Should Make Apple Beg for Maps Navigation

Fred LA, old-skool "analysts" never research - they just fart brainwaves. Of course he didn't know Apple had just bought its own mapping company. It also stands to reason that Apple knew Google intended to launch turn-by-turn navigation at the outset of the project's development, and made contingency plans to avoid being dependent on Google.
Acquisitions don't happen out of the blue, especially for a company like Apple, so this move, and Apple's reassuring forsight to stay ahead of the game by outflanking Google with its own purchase of a mapping solution, shows just how forward thinking Apple's management is.
Screw Google - Apple doesn't need them.