They only rushed it as google wanted user data and apple didn’t want to give them that. So yes it was rushed, but for all the right reasons.
You really think it was solely Apple making a privacy stand and not being pissed at the competition?
Heck, I’ve never even seen evidence of your claims. Not that Google doesn’t track stuff, but so does Apple. Someone was bragging to me about the data Apple collects in another post.
Guess it was that and google not letting apple use Siri with it. Edit: turn by turn direction not Siri.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/nov/05/apple-google-maps-iphone-dropped
Google Latitude, the product mentioned in the article, was purely opt-in. There was no privacy issue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Latitude
It seems the issue was Google not offering the same maps experience through the API versus native Android, having to pay Google for it, not getting the location data Google was getting, and the general issue of working with a competitor.
Still, Apple Maps launched as an inferior product, even worse than what they complained about Google offering. As such, many just added Google Maps back in as an app as soon as it was available.
