Apple to Introduce Search Ads in Maps as Services Revenue Grows (www.bloomberg.com)

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[-] 73QjabParc34Vebq@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 hours ago

CoMaps is a fork by some contributors after the Organic Maps started going a bit closed source, a weird company dynamic, also introduced "links not adverts" with Kayak . Organic Maps is a fork of Maps.me when it started going a bit closed source and displaying hotels as adverts. ∞

https://www.comaps.app/news/2025-04-16/1/ https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/pull/6523

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