Apple Fires Maps Manager

Apple continues to clean house after it stumbled badly with its mobile mapping service, firing a manager who oversaw it.

Eddy Cue, the senior vice president for Internet software and services at Apple, fired the manager, Richard Williamson, according to two people briefed on the matter who did not want to be named to avoid Apple’s ire. Cue dismissed Williamson shortly before Thanksgiving, according to one of these people. The maps service has been widely criticized for offering incorrect addresses, misplaced landmarks and misleading driving directions. Timothy D. Cook, Apple’s chief executive, in a rare move, publicly apologized for the deficiencies of the service and recommended that disappointed customers use mapping services from Apple’s rivals while the company worked out the kinks.