Bloomberg: Apple Chooses Lamest Partner for iOS 6 MapsS
Bloomberg says Apple will include locational checkins with its
new homemade Maps app, no extra app download needed. That's
actually very cool! Except it will allegedly use Yelp, and it's
hard to imagine a dumber choice.  There's a decent chance you
didn't know Yelp even offers Foursquare-style checkins, and
that's okay—nobody uses it. Yelp is still mainly a way to check
thorough reviews of restaurants and other businesses, not to
announce your presence there. Yelp may be trying to play the
social network game, but nobody is playing along. That's because
Foursquare and Facebook are beating Yelp's ass in this game—but
that's not enough to stop Apple from offering a new geo-feature
that "will allow users to communicate through Yelp without
exiting the map and opening a new app." Snore.  Why choose the
loser? Maybe Apple's planning on buying Yelp, and courted it for
iOS 6 Maps as a little foreplay. Maybe Foursquare said no thank
you. We don't know. This is