The Apple Maps 1.0 release was a complete shitshow but it has quietly gotten better than Google Maps by this point. But the average google maps user is still mentally living back in 2012 and still thinks that Apple Maps sucks as hard as it did at launch. Apple does improve its products over time. In this case though due to the problems with AI and everything from racist Tay bot to "DEI" google gemini issues they're going to be taking their time to avoid another Apple Maps launch. Institutionally they've learned from the Apple Maps launch and they aren't going to show you a half-baked product any more. If you misinterpret the lack of any visible progress to the consumer as lack of any progress you probably don't have a good mental model of how Apple operates. They also aren't likely to be dumb enough to just not even bother on working to improve their AI assistant with the last decade worth of improvements in DNNs/LLMs. And the "first mover advantage" usually isn't an actual advantage and its better to be second or third and copy what works and put a lot of polish on it. Siri itself is kind of proof of that (Friendster and MySpace are two other examples--there's lots of past HN topics on this). They don't need to leap into the LLM voice assistant space half baked in order to try to get ahead of everyone else--that is startup-which-will-eventually-get-bought/HN kind of logic, not actual market leadership logic.