Apple is a triumph of marketing, not engineering.
They have shown that it is possible to make a killing by selling
an inferior product if you package it nicely.
All those iSheeps queued outside Apple stores overnight just to
buy a broken product. Apple has claimed that their Maps app is
still a work-in-progress, but then that means that all those
iSheeps pretty much paid good money to be beta testers.
Honestly, there is no reason for Apple to drop Google Maps apart
from corporate pride. Shucks man, they should just suck it up,
admit that Google has a much better maps app, and allow it to be
released for iOS6.
Heck, there's no reason for not including a memory expansion
slot apart from forcing people to shell out good money to them for
a model with more memory. They would just rather charge $100 more
for an iPad with more built-in memory than have their customers pay
$20 to SanDisk or Kingston for a microSD card.
well, the Nexus 7 pulled the same stunt with no SD card slot
too, forcing people to buy the 16GB version... but it's loads
cheaper! 
