Google says Maps not waiting in wings for iPhone 5 | Reuters

An unsubtle negotiation tactic?

""We think it would have been better if they had kept ours. But what do I know?" Schmidt told a small group of reporters in Tokyo. "What were we going to do, force them not to change their mind? It's their call."
Schmidt said Google and Apple were in constant communication "at all kinds of levels." But he said any decision on whether Google Maps would be accepted as an application in the Apple App Store would have to be made by Apple."

Google says Maps not waiting in wings for iPhone 5 | Reuters