Google’s Eric Schmidt: Apple has learned maps are hard

Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher and Eric Schmidt in conversation at the 92nd Street Y
(Credit: Shara Tibken/CNET )
“Apple has learned that maps are hard,” Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt calmly stated, without smirking, during an interview with All Things D hosts Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at the 92nd Street Y in New York Wednesday evening. He added that Google had spent over five years investing its map app, while Apple in catch-up mode. “Apple should have kept our maps,” Schmidt said. “They’re better maps.”
He added, “We invested hundred of millions of dollars in satellite work,…

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