Ads might be coming to Apple Maps next year

Apple Maps users could commencement seeing ads successful the app arsenic soon arsenic adjacent year, according to a caller study from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

Similar to Google Maps and different mapping apps, Apple’s program is to let restaurants and different businesses with brick-and-mortar locations to wage to beforehand themselves successful hunt results, Gurman says. While Apple already runs ads successful the App Store, this could beryllium portion of a larger strategy to present much advertizing successful iOS.

Apple volition reportedly effort to separate itself from the contention with a amended interface, and by utilizing AI to amusement applicable results. 

The question, Gurman says, is whether Apple instrumentality owners volition commencement to rebel arsenic Apple devices and apps progressively go billboards trying to person you to wage for much Apple services.