Several developers said they warned Apple against including the company’s own “shockingly bad” in-house Maps application in the new iOS 6 operating system, CNET reported this week.

Apple replaced Google’s Maps app with its own for iOS 6, the mobile OS that comes installed on the new iPhone 5 and is being pushed out to owners of older iOS devices as well. Users and reviewers have complained about the deficiencies of the new default iOS 6 Maps app, with criticism reaching such a fever pitch that Apple CEO Tim Cook recently took the unusual step of apologizing and recommending that people install other Maps applications on their iOS devices, including Google’s.

Several developers told CNET that they knew something was very wrong with the iOS 6 Maps app as soon as they got a pre-release version in early June. They “filed bug requests, sent e-mails to specific Apple employees, and vented on message boards only other developers and Apple could see,” CNET said.

“I posted at least one doomsayer rant after each (developer) beta, and I wasn’t alone. The mood amongst the developers seemed to be that the maps were so shockingly bad that reporting individual problems was futile. What was needed wasn’t so much an interface for reporting a single point as incorrect, but for selecting an entire region and saying ‘all of thisit’s wrong,'” CNET quoted one unnamed developer of iOS apps as saying.

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