Not sure why anyone is surprised…they’re all bootlicking corporations that don’t want the mob boss to fuck with their mergers and/or investigate them for their various crimes.
Apple, Microsoft Joining Google Using Gulf of America in Maps Programs
Submitted 2 months ago by moe90@feddit.nl to technology@lemmy.world
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DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There have been a lot of sycophantic comments floating around here the past 24 hours about how Apple was better because they didn’t change it when Google did. Now the same folks are saying well Apple had no choice. So weird to lick the boots of trillion dollar companies.
timewarp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Because Apple people are in a cult.
bw42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Reported in Apple Maps as incorrect name. Won’t change anything, but it needed to be done.
billwashere@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah me too. And a snide comment about supporting this douchebag. Made me feel better at least.
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 2 months ago
I wrote that “Gulf of America” is only used by an authoritarian regime and “not widely used.”
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Please everyone do your part to report the incorrect information on google maps.
- On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Maps app.
- Navigate to the gulf of Mexico
- Tap Menu (your profile pictude) Send feedback (way at the bottom). Wrong information.
brb@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I couldn’t find this “Send feedback” section
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Someone please make it stop?
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It hasn’t even been an entire month yet…
cnirrad@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Holy shit, I can’t believe this is true
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I asked nicely? Please?
adarza@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
1438 days, 14 hours, 6 minutes remaining.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Get your guillotine ready, because this is just starting.
Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
We have an asteroid incoming, so there’s hope…
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 2 months ago
From now on I will only refer to the USA as Estados Unidos de América.
painfulasterisk1@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Northern Mexico sounds better. That will make President Elon annoyed and the First Lady Tramp throw a tantrum.
balder1991@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In fact, Mexico could rename Texas to Nuevo Mexico just to show up in the parenthesis in the maps.
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Be carefull with that kind of talk, you’re likely to get deported. /s
sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 2 months ago
Territorios Norteños de México.
Maiq@lemy.lol 2 months ago
OsmAnd still holding out! I will never not call it the Gulf of Mexico.
I think the world should stop calling USians americans. America is a huge place spanning 2 continents encompassing so many different cultures uniquely American. I always thought it was weird calling Mexicans in the US, Mexican American. It’s like saying American American. Wouldn’t Mexicans in Mexico also be Mexican Americans? Just never felt right to me.
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
In Spanish you say “estadounidense” which is pretty much “unitedstatesian”.
balder1991@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s just a quirk of the English language. In Brazil we also call them “North Americans” instead of Americans, because Americans refer to all countries and peoples in the Americas.
Maiq@lemy.lol 2 months ago
That’s exactly how I think of it, Americans are the peoples of the America’s, North, Central and South. The people in the US should not hold a monopoly on that name as it somehow infers that the rest of the Americas are somehow less American and their just not. Maybe I’m looking at it wrong as i grew up in the US and we regularly refer to ourselves as american and the rest of the America’s just don’t do that because of our cultural and linguistic differences. Maybe more a remnant of imperialism than a quark of the english language.
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
End stage capitalism.
Organic Maps is great btw.
recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Fuck the C-suite execs🤘
I’m still going to call it the Gulf of Mexico🇲🇽adarza@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Golfo de México
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
The next Democrat should run with the goal to rename it to Gulf of Donald’s Defeat. I would vote for them.
essteeyou@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Assuming we don’t just get 8 years of President Vance…
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Assuming you ever get to vote again. I thinks it’s extremely naive to believe Pedonald will ever leave office. Americans choose fascism, it’s not just a figure of speech.
afronaut@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
Get Organic Maps! It’s open source.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Reported a missing massage parlor named Tim Cook’s Orange Lips
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 months ago
RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Et tu, Apple?
postnataldrip@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Regardless of your stance on the name change, doesn’t the executive order (and subsequent updating of the names register or whatever it’s called) make it official? In which case the maps are just being updated to reflect it.
Afaik they’re not changing it anywhere outside the US as (so far…) that’s the only place it’s been changed, so it’s not like they’re pushing that name in places where it’s not official.
It’s also not unheard of to have map details that vary depending on where you are, to align with the official stance of wherever the map is being viewed from. Ukraine, bits of the India/Pakistan border, IIRC some islands off Japan disputed by China, etc.
Not saying the name change isn’t stupid and not suggesting at all that the companies in question aren’t scum, but getting angry at the map maintainers for this change seems pointless. What did you expect them to do?
Am I missing something?
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As absolutely stupid as this is, it’s no different than changing the maps to show Denali rather than Mount McKinley. I don’t think you’re missing anything.
modifier@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Is it no different, or is it different in a kind of huge obvious way? Denali is US property. The gulf ain’t.
tauonite@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Google Maps shows the translation of Gulf of America in parentheses in all languages, everywhere. That’s like if Mexico renamed the gulf to La biblioteca and they changed it for everyone. That’s objectively wrong.
scarabic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thank you for taking the time to post this. I didn’t have the energy to explain to all the teenagers here that these companies have two choices: comply with this completely legal name change, or go to war with the White House over it to make some kind of statement. Gee I’d love it if big companies were out there jousting windmills over principles but I’d never expect it in a million years, at any stage of capitalism or under any other economic system. The business of business is business.
timewarp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’re in a bubble if this surprises you. You thought when Kamala sent Mark Cuban out to tell everyone how much Kamala loves big business that it meant they would protest the government under Trump? You don’t like the name change then next election don’t advocate for a non-primaried genocidal Dick Cheney supporter.
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Gulf of Oil.
Alternately: Gulf of [Redacted]
expatriado@lemmy.world 2 months ago
gulf of helloooo, egg prices
medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Y’know, this wouldn’t be so bad if it were renamed, “Gulf of Americas” - eg, North America and South America. Added bonus: It’s not what Trump wanted so he’ll be pissed.
Lantern@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The reason why people are protesting the random changing of the name is the vast amount of work it generates. Websites, textbooks, maps, etc. will all have to be updated (and all this accumulates to a couple million dollars). By this logic, “Gulf of the Americas” is just as bad.
jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Only in the US, and for mapping companies that now have to treat the US as a “sensitive” country.
The rest of the world can continue to call it by its internationally recognised name.
medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I see your point about generating work, but name changes happen - German shepherd dogs becoming “Alsatians” during WW2, Mt. McKinley, a bunch of things in the US. But if it’s going to be changed, let’s not make it what Trump wants. He probably can’t even find it on a map anyway.
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why they changed it, I can’t say.
(Donald just liked it better that way.)
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Am I the only one who thinks this, very specifically this, is good? I don’t want corporations deciding what to call things: they should use official maps. This is the only part of this fiasco working as it should.
I don’t know what the legal process is for changing a place name, but as far as I know should come through Congress, assuming they were doing their jobs. It should usually originate from locals like with Denali, but there’s no locals here
I’m on the side of this being a distraction. It’s stupid and egotistical, and I’ll continue using the real name until it’s fixed. However it’s mostly noise for something that doesn’t ultimately matter much. Don’t let it distract you from much more important damage to our democracy, our society, our future.
But also Linux would be a great choice for many people
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Are you the only one that thinks this is good? Probably
vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I don’t think its good per se but I can see the value in your point. Especially in regards to it just being a distraction. Everyone is sure honed in a map rename when there’s other more legitimate issues to address.
But, gulf of America nonsense makes easier distraction headlines.
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And effing Trump just leapt out of his grave to cost me so much more money ….
Just did the FAFSA form for my kids college and it sure is ugly. Apparently the new rules were written by a republican on 2019, and shoehorned into the huge COViD relief bill at the end of trumps first term. Remember the one where it was produced just like a day or two before it had to be voted on, so physically impossible to read. I’m so pissed, my second kid may not be able to go to his college choice
beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
You’re next, New Mexico!
balder1991@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Don’t let Trump find out this State exists.
sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 2 months ago
You mean Arizona 2?
Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You know what… If anything should be named after this country, it’s the toxic brown bathtub that is The Gulf.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They do that shit even in other languages, where it is clearly and simply wrong.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
In Canada it still seems to be labelled The Gulf of Mexico
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It‘s the 9 dash line all over again. It‘s so petty and pathetic.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
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WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Look at every corporation bend the knee and enthusiastically embrace the fascist fusion of corporation and state.
I’ve been saying it for a decade but it keeps getting more obvious. The oligarchs and their corporations have been financing the fascists, and working towards the takeover, the entire goddamn time. I’m not talking about Elon and the tech bros. I’m talking about the 0.001%, the thousands of oligarchs who own SPY. They look at the CCP with envy, yearning for the one party state capitalism and authoritarian control of the masses — just replacing communism™️ with freedom™️, christianity™️ and nationalism™️ — free from the risk that democracy represents to their wealth and power.