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We've been sailing Europe, so had plenty of opportunity to compare maps in different locations.

Google maps is great for navigating cities you're unfamiliar with. It gives you public transport information (not complete, missing buses here in Porto for example, but pretty good), points of interest (with funny gaps though), place reviews with photos and the search is really good. On my aging iPhone 4S both the app and the maps and search results load faster than Apple maps. The web version has recently gotten more horrible and is the usual Javascript overloaded catastrophe that just doesn't work at all on crappy internet connections (which is the norm when traveling). I have a bookmark for the old (now called "lite") version. The phone app is okay but has the horrid habit of nagging you ceaselessly about wanting you to log in and share your everything with Google.

Apple maps search is _atrocious_. Even pasting in an exact address, it will often find some completely irrelevant spot in a small town in the US instead of anything over here in Europe where I am. Searching for things like "library" is even more hopeless, it'll show me something like "Library road" in a village in Cornwall rather than the library in Porto just around the corner from where I'm standing. The only time I ever use it is if I want to show people on a far zoomed out view where we've been, because the OS X client is faster than Google maps web and really nice to navigate by touchpad.

Bing maps has often more recent and higher resolution satellite images than any of the others. I can't speak of any of their other features as I only ever use it via SAS.planet, but when I want to check my nautical charts with satellite images I often end up using Bing's data.