Apple and Google Are Suddenly Battling Over Maps

If you weren't looking for it, you might have missed the news that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) completed an upgrade to its mapping feature that makes it much more like Google Maps in functionality.

Yet it seems like curious timing, since Apple's upgrade comes at the same time the Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG)(NASDAQ: GOOGL) subsidiary also finished a big overhaul of its own mapping technology. Suddenly, getting you from point A to point B is a priority for both Apple and Google.

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