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Android was an underdog for years as iPhones rewrote the industry from top to bottom, killing Blackberry, Nokia, Windows Phone. It took years of intense focus to bring Android to parity, and lucky for Google, there are a few areas where Apple is weak...

Apple is underdog in services. To this day Apple Maps is a pale shadow of Google Maps. They're getting better to be sure, but still an underdog.

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I imagine the only reason Apple Maps is worse than Google Maps is because the community around Google Maps has been updating it consistently for over a decade.

Apple maps transit experience is, in my opinion, much more carefully though out than Google's, so I know they can do something with the right information.

Apple Maps had a rough start, but people forget Google Maps wasn't always perfect either.

It would be nice if Apple users had the ability to submit corrections to Apple somehow.

You can. Not while turn-by-turn is active (presumably because Apple doesn't want to distract drivers), but outside of that, hit the (i) button and "Report an Issue" is an option.

What's neat about this is if you report a map error and they correct it, you actually get a push notification telling you that it's been fixed.

No kidding? I'll have to try this, thanks.

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