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Re:Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating by reaperducer on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @01:47PM (#25573261)
I was an iPhone user living in Tokyo and Apple maps was like “what are trains?

Apple Maps has had Tokyo transit data since 2016.

Tokyo got transit data years before many other cities.

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Re:Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating by porknubbins on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @08:23PM (#25577253)
The Apple maps debut in 2012 was when Google maps was removed from the Apple store. Maybe there was a way for Apple maps to do train/subway directions then but the UI was ridiculously bad- giant stations equivalent to Grand Central were hardly visible and highway names were highlighted.
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Re:Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating by canofbars on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:53AM (#25580236)
>Google maps was removed from the Apple store

They actually removed it entirely? You couldn't install google maps in any way?

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Re:Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating by sirn on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @07:13AM (#25581009)
It wasn’t that Apple removed Google Maps from App Store. Maps.app on iPhone were using Google Maps data prior to iOS 6. Google Maps the app didn’t existed when Apple switched to use Apple Maps.

Timeline:

Sep 19, 2012 - iOS 6

Dec 13, 2012 - Google Maps launched on App Store

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