Yes, that is the production behavior. If you have a link to maps.apple.com on a platform with app links (or claimed HTTPS URLs on android platforms), a native

Yes, that is the production behavior. If you have a link to maps.apple.com on a platform with app links (or claimed HTTPS URLs on android platforms), a native Apple Maps app can display the results. Otherwise, they haven't had a web version, so they would change it to a redirect to Google Maps. I can't speak as to whether Chrome or Firefox on Mac, or alternate browsers on iOS, support this OS feature to launch native apps which have claimed a URL path. The defacto query parameters from Google Maps (at least historically) are supported by Apple Maps as well. This made migration to Apple Maps easy when it launched - you can just change the domain in the URL and prefer the native experience, knowing it will fall back to Google Maps in other cases. Once Apple's web experience is finished, I imagine they will stop redirecting to Google Maps. Google has somewhat compromised the privacy posture of Google Maps, which may very well be how Apple internally justified building a web experience.