Eric Schmidt: no Google Maps for iOS… yet

If you’re an Apple user who’s pissed off with the Cupertino-based giant’s new maps offering don’t hold your breath for an alternative from Google just yet.

Speaking to a small batch of reporters in Tokyo, Japan Google chief Eric Schmidt said, “We have not done anything yet.”

“We’ve been talking with (Apple) for a long time. We talk to them every day,” he added.

The important part of that statement is the word “yet”. It signals that the internet giant hasn’t given up on iOS users. It’s also more or less in line with Brian McClendon, vice president of engineering for maps at Google’s statement that it wanted to make its offering “available to everyone”.

Amid the negative press surrounding Apple’s Maps app, the company released its own statement, saying that it was just getting started with the service. “The more people use it, the better it will get”, said spokesperson Trudy Miller.

We’re not quite sure how that’ll stop the Dali-esque disappearing roads and melting bridges in the aerial photo mode though.