Apple and Google were in the middle of a controversy late last year when both companies yielded to Russia's demands to show Crimea, a territory it annexed in 2014, as being Russian soil. Both Apple and Google Maps apps now show locations in Crimea as being part of Russia, but that highly depends on the location of the viewer.

For example, if you're checking the map of Crimea from the US, both Maps apps display the territory as neither Russian nor Ukrainian. However, when seen from Russia, Crimea is shown as part of this country, a move made by Google and Apple so that their apps would remain ...