Search is never easy and Google has raised the bars in a lot of small ways so high that you have to be a search company to match the level. Apple is not a search company, it's not in their DNA as they say. Look at App Store search (and recommendations) for example, or the same Maps.
Similarly Google can't build hardware products and good UIs. Sure they can copy and be moderately successful, but they never matched Apple in terms of knowing how to build gadgets as art/fashion items, and not just gadgets. Again, it's just not in the company's DNA.
Wish there was a company with all that in one package... but no, nothing on the horizon yet.
I wonder if you added up all the little niggling search and service issues from living in Apple's ecosystem and all the niggling device issues from living in the Google ecosystem which one would be smaller. I actually suspect Google's would be smaller because Apple deliberately handicaps itself in order to enhance privacy.
Don't think so, no. Making the Maps Search more sensible requires the app to know the current location which it does anyway, plus maybe your search history. I'm sure a lot of people would give Apple permission to store search history with all the Apple-style privacy statements in place of course. I think their product management just doesn't get it.
Similarly Google can't build hardware products and good UIs. Sure they can copy and be moderately successful, but they never matched Apple in terms of knowing how to build gadgets as art/fashion items, and not just gadgets. Again, it's just not in the company's DNA.
Wish there was a company with all that in one package... but no, nothing on the horizon yet.