I don't know how Apple could expect anything less than this response. They are coming from behind with the incumbent king of maps holding a lead they couldn't p

I don't know how Apple could expect anything less than this response. They are coming from behind with the incumbent king of maps holding a lead they couldn't possibly hope to close in a first release. Possibly not in the first several releases. It's a hard problem. Even if you get a good source of data you still have to present it correctly to the user and the best way to fix issues is to get it into the hands of users. If you allow competing maps on the platform though the users aren't likely to use yours unless the data is at least as good and the experience is superior. I'm not sure this was a battle they should have picked.