Going to Google Maps in response to Apple adding ads to Maps doesn't make a lot of sense. Google has been putting ads in Google Maps for many years. Is the view that they're both the same now, in terms of having ads, so they might as well use the one with the better POI data?

> they're both the same now, in terms of having ads, so they might as well use the one with the better POI data?

Yup. If the main differentiator is gone, you move to the next marginal thing that matters, which in this case is working as a map.