Gulf of Make a Report to Apple

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• cotlovan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “harass them mercilessly”

  Wow, that’s your response to something you don’t agree with? Harass them?

  Username checks out.

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• yarr@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  alternate name for this article: “How to feel good about yourself while doing something that doesn’t help anything at all”

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• MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Beg your pardon, but the Gulf of America has officially transitioned and if you continue calling it the Gulf of Mexico, you’re deadnaming it.

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• maxalmonte14@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah, the company that donated one million dollar to a mfer that promised nothing but fascism is not fascist…

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• CAWright@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I noticed that the send button was grayed out if you tried to report an incorrect name.

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• FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They don’t care.

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  • cotlovan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Get a dictionary and take a look at that word’s definition. “fascism” isn’t everything you dont agree with.

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    • MellowYellow13@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fascism is America right now

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• Obelix@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Don’t waste your time with stuff like this. Install an alternative app - OpenStreetMap is great and does have the correct name.

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• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Truth is, these big companies don’t care about you. Or your opinion. You can threaten them about “switching to Linux”, but these companies will think twice and say:

  • if we take this complaint seriously, we might retain one (1) customer, which makes us $1000 in the future
  • if we follow Trump, we might get some favorable legislation, which makes us $10000000

  how, do you think, will apple react?

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  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The correct framework for evaluation is “if we kowtow and associate with nazis we might get our people luigi’d randomly”

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• pedroapero@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m in Europe, here it displays «Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)»

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  • pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I can’t understand would it even have the part in parentheses in Europe. Think how silly it would look if every location had the regional name for every nearby country added in parentheses after the primary global name. It would be a mess.

    Eg:

    Germany (Deutschland, Allemagne, Niemcy, Germania, Saksa, <etc>)

    Feels to me like special rules Apple has to stroke special fascist egos.

    But maybe its not Apple and this is a name set by your local governance. You mind if I ask what country Apple maps you’re looking at?

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    • pedroapero@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hi, I’m in France but sorry my comment was for Google Maps, not Apple maps, my bad!

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• Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Still showing “Gulf of Mexico” on Apple Maps for me as of three seconds ago. I’m not in the US.

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  • potoo22@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Google and Apple have different versions of maps depending on what your country recognizes.
    For example, it will shows territories claimed by China as part of China for Chinese IP addresses, but may show them as independent territories for other countries that recognize them as such.

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    • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah - I was just pointing out to the USians that it’s only changing in their country. The rest of the world will keep the original name.

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• flop_leash_973@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There is a better chance that user reporting for this will be disabled more so than it is that this would make a difference. You know that right?

  If this latest drama with Apple Maps (and Google Maps) is what pushes someone over the edge to looking for more user respecting options then the people further gone than I would really be comfortable getting used to. Both companies regularly do much more than should do more to turn you off.

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• adrianhooves@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Trumpers are anti-anyone who isn’t straight & white.

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    • adrianhooves@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    'cause racism, they think they’re better somehow

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  • WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Trump ≠ All Americans

    It just seems that way :(

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• JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Google disabled reports and editing for it.

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• rabber@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Did you actually write this? Holy hell that bit about Linux is cringe

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• nomoredrama@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  lol good luck with that. Did you ever think maybe the reason he’s making all these ridiculous changes, is to keep the peanuts busy, while he slashes spending? Cause it seems to be working.

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  • Majorllama@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nope. These people are going to continue to froth at the mouth with every tiny little comment and joke Trump makes for the next 4 years just like they did for the last 8 years.

    I didn’t believe TDS was a real thing until I saw it happen to my own family. Normal, logical people turn into obsessed psychos whenever Trump is even mentioned in passing.

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    • franklin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Image

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    • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s normal and logical to be obsessed over a tyrannical dictator destroying your country, but you do you.

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• BendingHawk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Done ✅

  Now let’s use this opportunity to find some FOSS options like Organic Maps

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  • Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you want to go even further, you can grab StreetComplete and have fun wandering your neighborhood while contributing to OpenStreetMap by answering questions for things like business hours, road widths, road materials, etc. Unfortunately, it seems to be android only at the moment and I’m not sure if there’s an iOS alternative.

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I never got StreetComplete

      as i understand it, there’s tons and thousands of datasets available about public infrastructure, but for some bizarre reason, StreetComplete asks us to fill in that information by hand? How stupid is that? only to make a ton of errors while manually copying in that information.

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  • DigitalNirvana@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I commented on apples map, too. Organic Maps for me!

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  • rocky1138@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m trying magic earth this weekend.

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  • neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    it’s what I use, but it has such a unpleasant UI

    I feel like Signal is the only FOSS App that has a good and modern UI

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• Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You can leave a review for ‘gulf of Mexico (gulf of America)’ in Google maps too. Let’s do a review bomb

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  • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The newest review listed is from a month ago and does not include my own 1 star review from the other day, so I’m guessing they’re hiding them lol.

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• notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Didn’t last long… Image

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  • garretble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yep.

    I have tried on my phone and Mac, and I can’t submit anything. Even for other locations.

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• thisdude1092@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m sure they’re scrambling after this

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• communism@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You’re shouting into the void. Stop trying to beg the ruling class to not oppress you and get organised. They will not give up power voluntarily.

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  • the_doktor@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When enough people shout, even the void fills with the echoes of the voices of the oppressed and cannot be completely ignored.

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      dd if=user-complaints of=/dev/zero
      
      

      is exactly what apple will do with these complaints

      you could just as well burn your money or drive your car into a tree, as a form of protest. it’s a waste, either of time, money, or energy, but nothing is achieved that way.

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    • communism@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Now where the hell did I say “do nothing”. Hilarious that liberals’ idea of “doing something” is “put a comment into Apple complaints that they can easily not even look at”.

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• kava@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What difference does this make? Some lower level employee will see this, roll his eyes, and then continue on with his day.

  Beyond this, do you think Apple can actually take any other position than aligning with fascism? That was always going to happen. They literally can’t help but align with fascism- this is the culmination of late stage capitalism.

  It’s like politely asking a dog not to salivate when it sees a steak in front of it.

  You’re not gonna get anywhere and you’re just wasting time.

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  • notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What difference does this make? Some lower level employee will see this, roll his eyes, and then continue on with his day.

    you push back every step of the way. that’s how you deal with it. Apple maps reporting getting shut down for this is a sign that someone at a higher level took notice and it will have feedback to even higher leadership. So yes, this is feedback, even if companies do company things, it’s also sending a signal that on the long run their company things might be better off aligning with the users. Is this gonna make any difference on its own? Nope, but a million of things like this may.

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  • selokichtli@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think it helps mostly to produce this OP.

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  • graff@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not always, at least that I hope the classic answer is youtu.be/VtvjbmoDx-I

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• B312@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The linux part is cringe. Just move if you don’t want to use apple’s os

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• LeTak@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ravynos.com Switch to MacOS without Apple when it is finally released.

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  • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is this another ReactOS situation, or does this have a chance to actually become usable as a daily driver?

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    • LeTak@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I hope it becomes usable. If they hold there promise. Linux Wayland apps could be run through emulation layer, FreeBSD apps would run native and many MacOS apps should work out of the box.

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  • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    🤯

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• lornosaj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Honestly - this is from a playbook used by every autocratic administration: “Take the attention away from the more important things”. Seen it in EU constantly: Hungary, Slovakia, Serbia, etc. So sure, report it, but be aware this is a charade.

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  • daddy32@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Didn’t get your reference to Hungary etc. Do you mean they are annoying but don’t really matter in the overall scheme, or that similar tactics are used there?

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    • lornosaj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Its about tactics - countries with autocratic leaders usually employ similar tactics where they e.g.

      1. make a big change to some segment of law (more/less important - but has to be something that hits everyone or doesn’t make sense), so the media reports on that, then make changes to it again (due to public pressure), so that media and population gets these topics in waves, just so they make everyone blind to their corruption games they play in the background,
      2. or they use some politician from their party/coalition to stir the pot in their ministry they lead by playing drama queens by accusing the opposition of corruption,
      3. or they leave a “less important” political role to a crazy person, they do stupid shit that takes years to fix and you essentially have constant drama and info taking away everyones attention from the important stuff.
      4. etc etc

      But you get the point - calling it Gulf of America essentially gives you free patriotic bonus points from your followers and also makes your opposition / people invest in something that is, in the end, total waste of time (time which could be used for something else, like educating these populist/autocratic/however you call it tactics to everyone, so that your average Joe doesn’t get fooled by it so easily).

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  • notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    yup. at this point the bullshit coming out of trump’s mouth is the least concerning thing in this admin. the heavy lifting is done by the heritage foundation and doge

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  • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It is the main thing Trump is good at:

    Creating some drama/infuriation to keep news noisy in order to hide his fascist dictator playbook moves

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• Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The stunlock continues

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• neoscaler@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Do it. Move to Linux.

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• PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also, reporting that Trump Tower (either) should be renamed Mexico Tower feels pretty good.

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• jim@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wrote App Store review, then deleted maps. Installed Organic Maps to replace.

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  • beansbeansbeans@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is the way.

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  • glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    is there an easy way to export all my map markers from google to organic? I’ve saved a lot of locations over the years.

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    • SeekPie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Maybe this would work?

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    • tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      hmm I wondered this too. I have a ton of starred places as well as some custom lists. I wasn’t able to find anything to do it, but would also be interested in this.

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  • Itzdestroyed@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Based. Organic maps is a great navigation app. I also like magic earth :)

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    • frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve been struggling without public transportation in Organic. It kinda works? Like it shows the path but doesn’t actually show the stops or station names

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• Lemjukes@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  lol, the iOS app won’t let me submit a ‘name is wrong’ report.

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  • bartleby1@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It won’t let you send until you actually change the name lol

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    • Lemjukes@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ah that was not immediately apparent lol I’m silly

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