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Cartography Comparison: Google Maps & Apple Maps(justinobeirne.com)
over 7 years ago from Eric Liang, Product design intern at Facebook
Charles Morissette-P., over 7 years ago
I think this would answer some of your questions. http://www.justinobeirne.com/essay/what-happened-to-google-maps
As time went on, Google used less labels because people will look at the roads moreso than the cities.
Yeah, it would be cool to see comparisons of user activity for common map tasks between the two. The fact that google has fewer labels is probably very intentional.