It's much snappier and has (in my opinion) a good, modern and intuitive UI, but lacks lots of features compared to OsmAnd, for which reason it's not ready for my use cases (for example, it doesn't even support official trail hightlights/styles.

I use Organic Maps on my iPad where it is great for viewing maps. My phone has OsmAnd+ cause the extra features are useful for adventures.

For what you described the

On android you can dial emergency lines on a locked phone as well from the lock screen, I suppose iOS has the same function?

From the article: "This script obviously is not - as we say in Austria - the yellow of the egg, but it can defend from script kiddies I mentioned earlier who have no idea that all these tools have parameters to change the user agent.".

Perhaps consider reading the article thoroughly before you start claiming it to be more than what it is.

I believe the answer is depends, but there were some interesting discussions today under an article which relates to this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37965142