Comment by JumpCrisscross
7 hours ago
> lose your luxury and loyal customers IMO
You lose customers to those products. I’ve switched to CoMaps. Some of my friends went back to Google Maps—the differentiator for Apple was privacy and that seems to have been lost in kind even if not yet in magnitude.
Going to Google Maps in response to Apple adding ads to Maps doesn't make a lot of sense. Google has been putting ads in Google Maps for many years. Is the view that they're both the same now, in terms of having ads, so they might as well use the one with the better POI data?
> they're both the same now, in terms of having ads, so they might as well use the one with the better POI data?
Yup. If the main differentiator is gone, you move to the next marginal thing that matters, which in this case is working as a map.