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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
Why? Hardware devices have their data updated less frequently than any online service - Apple and Google (and other online) mapping resources not only use the same base data to build out their initial data set, but you have immediate access to their iterative improvements and updates to their live data set.
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To simply answer your "why"- I would say that any time I have been in a position where a failed GPS could cost me my life, I have had at least one backup. And the big thing with any of the GPS only devices- they aren't depending on cellular data to give you the map information. Sure the maps are only as accurate as the last update, but I find that is most often relivant in an urban setting.
I will certainly agree with you- that Google Maps is vastly superior to Apple Maps. However for somebody to buy an iPhone that is missing LTE network coverage, the corporate network security policies in iOS 6, and the improved processor for the sake of a mapping application seems silly to me.