Ads might be coming to Apple Maps next year

Apple Maps customers may begin seeing advertisements within the app as quickly as subsequent yr, in response to a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

Just like Google Maps and different mapping apps, Apple’s plan is to permit eating places and different companies with brick-and-mortar places to pay to advertise themselves in search outcomes, Gurman says. Whereas Apple already runs ads in the App Store, this may very well be half of a bigger technique to introduce extra promoting in iOS.

Apple will reportedly attempt to distinguish itself from the competitors with a greater interface, and through the use of AI to point out related outcomes. 

The query, Gurman says, is whether or not Apple gadget homeowners will begin to insurgent as Apple units and apps more and more change into billboards attempting to persuade you to pay for extra Apple companies.