Stewart confuses the Maps app, a software application, with the mapping data that underlies it and the algorithms for driving directions that Apple put in place.
The New York Times should know better, but Glenn Fleishman sets them straight.
New York Times doesn’t understand
I’m sure the NYT does know better but they have gone from newspaper to hit whoring blog and dissing Apple’s stuff gets tons of hits so . . .
It’s clear to the NYT author that Apple is unfairly targeting Google by competing with them in the smartphone market, but also Apple is a monopoly, and Antennagate. Somehow, Xerox did not merit a mention, but only by a hair.
You forgot to mention the Apple Tax.