Apple fired cardholder in iOS 6

Apple's senior vice president, Eddie Q, who took control of the cards from iOS architect Scott Forstall, fired Richard Williamson, the manager who led the card team, writes TechCrunch with reference to Bloomberg.

According to journalists, Apple thereby seeks to regain the confidence of users disappointed after the appearance of new maps in iOS 6. The company is also actively working with TomTom on fixing navigation and information about places of interest in its map application for iOS.

As a source of information, Bloomberg called "people aware of what happened," who also said that Kew intended to "strengthen the credibility of the program" in order to strengthen Apple's position in the confrontation with Google. According to several reports, Google is now preparing its own separate mapping application for iOS.
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According to the source, Kew intends to replace Williamson with a completely new team. Earlier it was reported that Apple was looking for former employees of Google Maps to work on their maps, and it is likely that they will replace the old team, but so far there is no information about this.

Apple declined to comment, citing Tim Cook's September letter , in which he apologized for the bad launch and said that the cards would improve as more people use them and more data is collected.