General manager of the cards was kicked out of Apple

At that time, Apple gradually until, literally step by step improves proprietary mapping in iOS 6, Company executives agreed that the time had come to punish the guilty in such an awkward failure. Scapegoat turned manager directly responsible for the development of Maps, named Richard Williamson. authoritative Western Bloomberg edition He reported that the initiator of this dismissal was Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president.

Key quotes from the source news:

Richard Williamson, driving a team of developers Maps, was dismissed by order of Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president. This was our publication said a reliable person, who asked not to be named because the company has not yet made official statements on this matter. Kew, who became responsible for the development of Apple branded division cartography after a series of shifts in senior management companies sought the advice of external experts in the field and asked colleagues from TomTom to assist in solving the resulting Problems.

Let me remind you, last month it was officially announced that after many years of work at Apple Scott Forstall leave the company in the next year, and its responsibilities will be distributed among the leadership of the "tip» Apple. Earlier Eddy Cue in charge of the development of the iTunes Store products, App Store, iCloud, iBookstore, iAd and Siri, and now added to the list so bad service - Maps.

It is unlikely that someone from the readers would disagree with the assumption that the company's board of directors from Cupertino is not going to rely on the help of rival companies (whether it Google or Nokia), And will spare no effort and will try to bring their own mapping to perfection. The beginning has already been made, the results we hope to see in the near future.

P.S. Now I understand why the developers iTunes 11 We decided to postpone with the release of a new version of the player, and thoroughly test all the possible bugs. And then you never know.

[via macrumors]