One thing. It's really difficult to report anything on Google Map both on website or mobile. I never wanna try it once. But reporting on the new Map is very easy and you can do so on the spot. I think you underestimate Apple users. What is it again about mobile web-traffic statistic? Isn't iOS got up to 80% or something? Trust me it will be very different (to Google crowd-sourcing) if Apple can add reported data very quickly.
It's not difficult to report anything to Google. You just don't understand how they "crowd-source" (hint, you don't have to do anything, Google are masters at data mining remember
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Also, Google has quite a few initiatives Apple doesn't have, such as Google Map Maker :
http://www.google.com/mapmaker
So no, really, it's not that I'm underestimating Apple users, I am one. I think it's that you underestimate Google's efforts in all of this. Why ? I dunno.
For one, I will never report anything to Apple. I'm probably not in the minority here, I just don't care about their sub-par mapping enough and since I don't really use MapKit enabled applications, as soon as Google releases a native app, Apple Maps is going into my trash folder along with Stocks, Weather, Newstand and all the other crap.