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Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by dzhiurgis on Friday June 29, 2018 @05:56PM (#17428155)
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.

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Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by simonh on Friday June 29, 2018 @06:13PM (#17428252)
I don't understand why Apple would need to host Google data. That's not how Google Maps on iOS works now, and it is fully featured.
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Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by dzhiurgis on Saturday June 30, 2018 @05:24AM (#17430127)
It uses privileged API's
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