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scarface_74 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: MacBASIC

And people wondered why Apple released Apple Maps using its own data before it should have.

It didn’t want to stay dependent on Google.

BuildTheRobots 4 months ago [–]

Might be worth pointing out that "own data" actually meant "quite a large amount of OpenStreetMap".

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