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/uninstall
then again google maps and waze already do this too
CoMaps is a passable open source alternative if you don’t need live traffic data, otherwise the proprietary HERE WeGo app can be used. Both don’t project fascism onto the Gulf of Mexico.
All the tech executives are too busy on their hands and knees with Trump
Something organic will replace it.
Something organic will replace it.
Unless there is beef among developers and they fork their own CoMaps with blackjack and hookers
Stop dreaming
Organic maps has already replaced everything else on my mobile devices.
And then there’s the drama and CoMaps…
But good that you switched! from my experience it’s very inferior to gmaps when talking about public transports or estimating traffic (I believe it doesn’t account for it)
They’ll probably make “Maps+” soon after.
Only until they rename it the week later: Apple Maps Pro Max 4K (2026 gen 2)
meh just gunna use my google maps. idc about ads anymore.
Well shit.
We need a jingle for Enshittification.
This is good! They dont deserve it.
I don’t use Apple, but honestly Apple is ruining everything, while Organic Maps and others are winning.
I love Apple Maps. I’ve been using it since it came out and it’s been great. This bums me out.
It already has ads. Those businesses it highlights for no reason at all when you’re scrolling around.
yeah google doing this made me stop using it as much. still need to find a permanent alternative
I’m still using Google for looking up places but I stopped using it for car navigation because holy shit it sucks ass. Using waze now and it’s so much better. No idea of they’re FOSS tho
Waze and Google use the same data for traffic, obstructions and routing. They are both owned by Alphabet. I have no idea why you think Waze is better
Waze is owned by Google. They bought it in 2014 (someone please correct the year, if I’m wrong). It’s not FOSS.
Waze was amazing. Sadly, a lot of features have been removed over the years, in an attempt to shift people from Waze to Google Maps. Waze in 2016 was better than the current version.
It really sucks that they were bought out by Google because for some reason waze’s navigation is 1000x better than gmaps, even tho they’re apparently from the same parent company
Most of the improvements seen for navigation in google maps (over the past decade) is due to them pulling the information and replicating a lot of features from Waze.
Google does it so much I’ve had trouble finding favorite places because they’d rather show an ad that overlaps it.
Once you create a monetization team that puts ads in shit, they’re going to want to keep putting more ads in stuff. They’re all judged on how much better they do year over year.
Apple should’ve never created a team that sold ads on their platforms.
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Mmmmm, corpo defense via victim blaming. You love to see it.
Next up, Microsoft is obligated to install 24/7 spyware on all ststems because tech incompetent users don’t know how to use anything else.
Indeed. Between 150 and 40 years ago a “platform” that sold devices and also vertically owned everything up to and including the advertising business on those devices would have been illegal. Even AT&T didn’t try to mess with the actual content of your phone conversations, despite de facto being given a get-out-of-jail-free card with regards to monopolistic behaviour for 70 years. This isn’t a matter of people being bad at buying stuff.
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Magic Earth has been great to use 🙂
Aye, its a great app!
There’s people who use that? That’s news to me.
I was bc it didn’t have ads, ironically.
It is used by DuckDuckGo
Huh, I didn’t know that. I would’ve guessed they’d use some open source alternative.
remember when apple didn’t have ads because they were premium?
So you overpay them for crappy iPhone and have to pay them again by watching ads?
Don’t forget web users. Duck duck go uses Apple Maps.
I guess DuckDuck pays them, so Duck users would be spared of the ads?
That will inconvenience the Apple map user. I’m sure they’re devastated by this news.
