On Wednesday, Google vice president of engineering Brian McClendon declined to directly address Apple's mapping efforts, other than to say Google would continue to work on providing comprehensive mapping service to Apple device users.
Transformer Prime users outside of America and Taiwan in Italy and Greece won't receive a GPS dongle to address their tablet's lackluster mapping performance.
That invention, sometimes described as covering "data tapping, " allows users to grab data embedded in an unstructured form, like an address, and use it in another phone application, such as mapping.