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WSJ Tech News Briefing

How Apple Maps Found Its Way

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Changes to Apple Maps have made some users love the once hated product. WSJ personal tech reporter Ann-Marie Alcántara joins host Zoe Thomas to explain what the iPhone maker has done and what this means for its rival in the navigation space, Google. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Friday, July 21st.

0:36.0

I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.

0:39.0

A spectacular U-turn.

0:42.0

That's what Apple seems to have pulled off with its Maps app.

0:45.0

The road Atlas and navigation tool was once avoided, even by iPhone users.

0:51.0

Now, some say they love it.

0:54.0

So what has changed in Apple Maps?

0:56.0

And what does that mean for its main competitor in this space?

1:00.0

Google.

1:01.0

Our personal tech reporter Ann Marielle Contera will join us later in the show to explain.

1:09.0

But first, an update on the email hack that targeted a flaw in Microsoft's cloud computing system.

1:16.0

The emails of the US ambassador to China and the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia were part of the cyber espionage attack.

1:24.0

That's according to people familiar with the matter.

1:27.0

Microsoft has said the hackers have links to China.

1:30.0

The specifics of the hack aren't fully known.

1:33.0

But the attackers could have gleaned insight into planning of recent visits to China by Biden administration officials,

1:40.0

as well as internal conversations about US policies toward the country.

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