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by kizza 5118 days ago
Maybe they didn't want to take the risk of it being rejected as 'duplicating existing functionality'. I know that some apps have got through nowadays, but has the policy changed to allow this, or is Apple allowing these on a case-by-case basis?
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No, they didn't do it because Apple was already paying them to use their maps.

If they came out with their own Google Maps application that had feature parity with the Android app, I would imagine that most iOS users would switch immediately to that app instead of Apple's built-in one.

That could have potentially cost Google a lot of money, assuming that Apple was paying on a per-use basis.