Google has a lot of POI data, but it's not necessarily good data. What POI data do you find missing in Apple maps? Most of the recent issues with retail establishments changing hours has also affected Google Maps in my experience.
- Maps won't show all of the results in the map view
- Maps prioritizes these kinds of chains that pay good money over more relevant restaurants (for instance, I searched "Cafe" in Boston last week, and both McDonalds and Dunkin Donuts were among the top 5 results. Not exactly the most relevant results)
- no matter how much you zoom in, Maps just won't show you certain businesses. I'm not sure if they haven't payed up enough protection money to Google, or if the business listing isn't optimized, or what... but it's a crap experience when I know there's a great business in a general area but every time I search, Google zooms me out to shove Wendy's in my face
Do other people experience these same issues with Google Maps? Am I somehow using the product wrong? I've been trying to contribute to OSM and use it instead when possible, but the POI data just isn't quite complete enough... and businesses almost never update their own hours on OSM.
i'm not saying google results are perfect, far from it, but they certainly don't typically do the above.
but yah, foo anything is like a box of chocolates. you just never know what you're gonna get!