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The smaller userbase of Apple services compared to Google Maps/Spotify creates not only a data disadvantage but an incentive disadvantage. Apple needs to make M
by qq66 10y ago
The smaller userbase of Apple services compared to Google Maps/Spotify creates not only a data disadvantage but an incentive disadvantage. Apple needs to make Maps or Music or iMessage only good enough to keep you on the iPhone. Google has dozens of businesses dependent on great maps, from advertising to Maps API to self-driving cars, and thus will always invest more engineering and more labor into the service.
- bogomipz 10y agoPlease elaborate on those number if you are going to make statements like that. Citation? Apples music has 11 million paid subscribers. I don't think thats a data disadvantage. Considering the service is less than a year old even less so.
- qq66 10y agoYes, what I'm saying is that the incentive disadvantage is much bigger than the data disadvantage. Apple Maps is worse than Google Maps because Apple cannot justify the kinds of investments in product that Google can.