@mdione @organicmaps on the other hand, I'm not entirely sure what the excuse would be not not return "Café Columbus", a coffee shop, when I search for "café" and the list of results does not even fill one page. If I was the owner of that café, I'd be pretty pissed and wondering what kind of bribe is being demanded here.
@mmcm @organicmaps I'm not sure all people using gmaps would feel overwhelmed by OSM, but it's definitely in Google's interest give you a default service that also gives them data.
Think of it this way: every month we read about one or other Google service being shut down. Why? Because it's not part of the cash cow. They tried and didn't return enough data. Maps and Earth very expensive toys, and yet I don't think it will ever be killed. In a less expensive way, gmail is similar.