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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23323550\/apple-maps-10-year-anniversary-iphone-google<\/a>
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If you own an iPhone, I invite you to check out the Brooklyn Bridge in Apple Maps. In the 3D view, you can see just how it stretches across the East River, hovering over the highway on the edge of Manhattan and towering over its namesake park at the tip of Brooklyn. Flip on Apple\u2019s Flyover tour, and the camera will slowly hover around the bridge in a satellite view on a bright, sunny day, letting you peek into the surrounding pavilion, over at the trees on Liberty Island, and across the East River.<\/p>\n

Sure, the bridge might look a little blocky from a few angles, but it\u2019s distinctly the Brooklyn Bridge \u2014 a far cry from when Apple Maps first launched and the bridge appeared to be melting into the ground.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s Apple Maps\u2019 first version of the Brooklyn Bridge.<\/em><\/figcaption>Photo: The Verge<\/cite><\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s what it looks like now: an actual bridge.<\/em><\/figcaption>Screenshot by Jay Peters \/ The Verge<\/cite><\/p>\n

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The liquefied Brooklyn Bridge was just one of many irregularities \u2014 to put it lightly \u2014 from the launch of Apple Maps, a product that celebrates its 10th anniversary later this month. The app had one of the roughest starts of any Apple product in recent memory, but the company has invested enough into it to make it a great mapping app and a capable competitor to Google Maps. The changes represent one of the biggest product turnarounds of the last decade.<\/p>\n

Apple Maps emerged out of a rift between Apple and Google. It might be hard to remember now, but the two companies were pretty chummy during the iPhone\u2019s early years. When the iPhone first launched, Google\u2019s CEO at the time, Eric Schmidt, was on Apple\u2019s board of directors<\/a>, and Google Maps and YouTube were two of the few apps that were preinstalled onto every iPhone.<\/p>\n

However, as Google quickly began to create an iOS competitor of its own in Android, Apple and Google grew into bigger rivals. Maps, in particular, was a sore spot: Google appeared to be holding back critical features from the iOS version of Maps, leaving iPhone users without turn-by-turn directions<\/a>. Suddenly, Apple had good reason to remove its reliance on Google, and making its own mapping app was one of its biggest breaks.<\/p>\n

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