Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up
by dzhiurgis on Friday June 29, 2018 @05:56PM
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But giving away most of these features would mean Apple has to host Google's data, something Google wouldn't compromise either.
Sure Google could've promised that they wouldn't collect which tile a phone requested by specific user agent, but that would be silly.
Google was withholding the latest features from the Apple version, including vector map data and turn by turn directions. There's also indications Google wanted access to user location data in return for some of these features, something Apple was not willing to compromise on.