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dzhiurgis on June 29, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up

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.

simonh on June 29, 2018 [–]

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.

dzhiurgis on June 30, 2018 | [–]

It uses privileged API's

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