Apple Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue has fired the product manager behind iOS 6's infamously flawed Maps app.

Richard Williamson oversaw the mapping team at Apple as a Senior Director for iOS Platform Services. He was reportedly handed a pink slip after Cue became responsible for Maps during last month's management restructuring, according to anonymous sources speaking to Bloomberg.

Apple replaced Google as the data source for its Maps app in iOS 6 after it could not reach an agreement to license Google's vector mapping data and turn-by-turn navigation features. (This is despite the fact that Google incorporated the features into its mobile OS, Android.) Apple built its own data backend using data from Open Street Maps and Tom Tom, among other sources, as well as incorporating mapping and visualization technologies it acquired from Placebase, Poly9, and C3 Technologies.

The redesigned Maps include benefits such as turn-by-turn navigation with voice cues form Siri, three-dimensional "flyover" views of major cities, and more efficient data transmission and caching. However, Maps has been widely criticized for its lack of transit directions, missing points of interest, inaccurate search results, and driving directions that could lead users on a wild goose chase.

Though the problems with Maps didn't seem to stop consumers from buying Apple's latest iPhone 5 handset, the issues were severe enough that Apple CEO Tim Cook issued a public apology. Cook went so far as to recommend alternative apps to use while Apple worked to improve its data.

Meanwhile, rival Google is reportedly putting the "finishing touches" on its own Maps replacement, which would include turn-by-turn navigation and its own 3D map views.

Cue plans to replace Williamson as part of his efforts to make good on Cook's promise to do "everything we can to make Maps better." Former SVP of iOS Software Engineering Scott Forstall was also apparently asked to leave Apple in part after he declined to sign his name to Cook's apology over Maps. Forstall reportedly refused to accept responsibility for what he saw as a non-issue.

Cue is also said to be consulting with outside mapping experts and "prodding" Tom Tom to fix the data it licenses to Apple for navigation and landmark locations.

This isn't the first time Cue has been called in to fix others' mistakes. He originally served as a vice president in charge of Apple's iTunes Store but was asked to take over for the failing MobileMe cloud service that Apple launched in 2008 to coincide with the iPhone 3G. He was promoted to senior vice president in 2011 by Cook and charged with overseeing iCloud—MobileMe's replacement—along with iAd, the App Store, and iTunes. In the executive shakeup last month, Cue was also put in charge of both Maps and Siri.