The "tension" between Google and Apple is now well known. Indeed, Android and the iPhone are direct competitors (as are Apple and Google in several other contexts now) and Google CEO Eric Schmidt resigned (or perhaps was ousted by Steve Jobs) from the Apple board a few months ago.

Google "owns" the iPhone Maps app, but for how much longer? A job posting on the Apple site received a great deal of attention over the weekend. Here's the job description: 

"We want to take Maps to the next level, rethink how users use Maps and change the way people find things." This could mean services built around Maps but it could also mean the ouster of Google from the iPhone Maps app altogether. We'll wait and see, but Apple has created a geo-team and is putting a good deal of effort into location-based services -- although it doesn't have the holistic mapping assets that Google has developed with Street View, etc.