> Maybe it's the same sort of deal as Google where they sell the traffic to Yelp and agree not to compete? I mean they already do this with preferred apps in t

> Maybe it's the same sort of deal as Google where they sell the traffic to Yelp and agree not to compete? I mean they already do this with preferred apps in the App Store (e.g. preferred revenue sharing for apps like Uber), so why wouldn't they do this in maps? The Apple "privacy" brand has been a sales pitch of questionable validity since it started. Apple only cares about privacy enough to keep its users from being a front page headline, nothing more.