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Google Maps puts iPhone back on track

Even in this season of peace, love, and happiness, it warms my heart to see one giant corporation trying to clobber another. Especially if it means better smartphone apps.

So thanks, Google, for serving up a fine new navigation app for Apple Inc.’s iPhone. The giant search company created the original map app for the iPhone, but was ousted when Apple decided to go it alone. Clearly Apple didn’t want to get its map software from the same company whose Android operating system has stolen millions of smartphone sales from the ­iPhone.

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