Organic Maps or OsmAnd is out there, just saying.
Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app
Submitted 1 day ago by tonytins@pawb.social to technology@lemmy.world
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birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
peetabix@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Wow, so brave.
minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Courage.
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
“What the fuck you gonna do? Use Android?!??! Fuck you and and be happy about it” - Tim Apple, probably
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Doesn’t Google Maps have ads?
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Sundar Pichai: “Huh, well I guess we’ll just follow Tim Apple’s lead and start injecting ads in google maps and anyone who uses google maps API too.”
Krompus@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Everything is shitty! 🎶
discosnails@lemmy.wtf 1 day ago
If you’re not paying for it, you are the product; except for with 🍏 and then it’s both.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
they did pay 1000$+ phones just to have ads on it.
garretble@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Just like every Android phone that comes pre-loaded with trash apps you have to delete.
stoy@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
[deleted]artyom@piefed.social 1 day ago
They literally didn’t say anything about Android or Google…
discosnails@lemmy.wtf 1 day ago
Idk what you’re talking about, I program my own OSs in assembly language and solder my own hardware from e-waste. Get gud normie.
Zorque@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Oh, well, if Google does it then it must be okay.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
Open Street Maps doesn’t do any of this bullshit.
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I thought people liked using Apple products because of the premium experience that ecosystem provides.
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They did. Someone at the top has been ruining that experience lately.
zewm@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I switched from Google to Apple back in 2018 and the royal fixing up lately is making me start looking at how to go back.
I’m really disappointed with the direction and lack of quality from Apple these last few years.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
You can name names, it’s Tim Cook, Craig Federighi, Phil Schiller, and Greg Joswiak.
fodor@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
OpenStreetMap for the win, my peoples.
Routhinator@startrek.website 5 hours ago
Specifically OSMAnd.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 5 hours ago
Works perfectly as long as you already know where you’re going!
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Depends on the ads though.
treeko@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Fuck I just started using it because of how horribly shit google maps has become
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
If you don’t need traffic data, CoMaps (uses OpenStreet Map data).
If you do need traffic data (understandable) Magic Earth is what I use. It’s unfortunately not fully open source, only the map data is from OSM, but I find the navigation good 95% of the time, sometimes you have to make your own judgement for if a route might have bad traffic. At least it’s not Google or Apple, and no ads.
I don’t do car play, so I have no idea about how that works.
I wish we had better alternatives
or that cars all exploded and we went to public transport and walkable citiesBakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
Supposedly comaps has carplay support as of like 2 months ago, according to a page on their website
treeko@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Thanks for the suggestions! I’ll look into it
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I don’t use maps often but what’s been going wrong in Google maps? I know whatever Uber/Lyft was using was having a hard time keeping up with local changes (bridges being shut down for months would stay on every driver’s directions)
treeko@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s still accurate for directions, but search results and map viewing have gone to shit because of google accepting money to highlight certain businesses - taking up huge chunks of the map with their square icons
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
I uninstalled it when it told me to turn left at the Wendy’s™ instead of a fucking street name. After I missed my turn and got to my destination late, I looked it up and the place it was talking about was visually obscured by another building so I couldn’t have possibly known where to turn. Fuck that noise.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I know this is my own personal experience, but diehard Apple fans in my circle have started to say, “Fuck Apple.” I think they’re PR and goodwill is finally running out.
ceenote@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The thing is, Apple getting worse is coinciding with everything else getting worse, too.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
for real, fucking everything sucks now.
Soup@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Steve Jobs, for all his other problems, knew how to run a company and held to the idea that they needed to make good products. He kept the prices fairly low for what they were, and they even decreased over time for many of their products. He wouldn’t allow unfinished products to be released which is a big reason why I always laughed at Android people who claimed “first” with their buggy, shitty versions of the reliable thing Apple made a couple years later.
But then for some reason he let Tim Cook, who had been an idiot at Apple for a long time and Job’s knew it, take over. Since then prices have sky-rocketed and the company has started releasing stuff that just isn’t up to the standards they held in the past. He even took power away from the guy who had come up with Apple’s iconic aesthetic.
Whether or not people want to admit, Apple made excellent products and the customers aren’t nearly as stupid as people want to believe. So when shit like this happens we understandably get pissed because, surprise, many of us actually have been paying attention.
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 1 day ago
I have a lot of shot to say about Steve Jobs, but he knew what asthetics he wanted. He would loathe the current trend with phones having a camera bulge. Look at all the iPhones released under him, look at the back of them. If they had a camera it was flush with the back of the phone.
sonofearth@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Whotf even used Apple Maps lol
garretble@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Honestly, I use it all the time now since I plug in my phone to my car and it’s right there.
It’s fine. Sometimes I use Google Maps. It’s also fine.
I actually like Apple’s approach to describing when to turn. It’ll say stuff like “go past this light and turn at the next” instead of vague shit like “in 1000 feet turn right.” Bitch, I don’t have a tape measure.
I think people who grip about Apple Maps as it is today probably just haven’t used it and want to gripe for griping sake.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 5 hours ago
LosersPeople deep in the apple ecosystem. There’s a surprising number these days.SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
Apparently the Google maps app on ios is very terrible
Friend of mine showed it to me on a quite recent phone and it’s super stuttery and laggy when scrolling around
irish_link@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I actually do when I am using my car that doesn’t have a smart system/android auto/carplay. The reason is that it will ping/vibrate my watch when I am getting close to a turn or action. That way I know something is coming up. Thats about the only time I use it.
confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
OK, so if I’m on Apple hardware, for now, what’s the best alternative to “Apple Maps”?
Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
OsmAnd Maps, Organic Maps, and Co Maps are all worth looking at.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
elgordino@fedia.io 1 day ago
I’m reportedly getting ready to move to CoMaps.
RustyShackleford@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
zewm@lemmy.world 1 day ago
People use Apple Maps? 🤔
veeesix@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It’s come a long way to finally being good. This ain’t your grandpa’s orchard variety map.
zewm@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It still forces you to use yelp app for everything. Gonna be a no from me dawg.
Cedar@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
Well, I mean, it kinda is now.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
It was miles ahead of the other one because it wasn’t full of stupid ads. That was its one feature. Was.
sicjoke@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes. I find it easily as good as the alternatives.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m sure that will really annoy all seven people that use it…
Gnomie@lemmy.world 1 day ago
what do people think of Organic Maps?
Blackout@fedia.io 22 hours ago
It's pretty good I just wish it had more ads
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 1 day ago
Awesome! Also Magic Earth. And CalTopo, too!
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Anyone have a solid epub reader on iOS? I frequently use the Books app to read my epubs since I often find myself without my ereader and don’t want to use Kindle.
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
You’re reading a book and suddenly as the main character reaches in their backpack, he pulls out a cold, dew covered bottle of CERVEZA CRISTAL!
JaymesRS@piefed.world 22 hours ago
I use kobo because I have a kobo reader and you can import any epub into their app and it will work great. Otherwise I like Yomu, it’s got a nice and clean interface.
TroublesomeTalker@feddit.uk 22 hours ago
No complaints about Yomu.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Still not serious about their maps eh.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
you say that like google doesn’t do this even worse.
tonytins@pawb.social 23 hours ago
I still remember all those Apple Maps memes.
YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
I don’t know if it’s my phone or wifi, when home, but Apple Maps will often be incredibly slow, or just refuse to display tiles when I zoom in or out. Particularly if I change the zoom by quite a bit in one action. It’s very frustrating.
realitista@lemmus.org 23 hours ago
Thereby ensuring I never begin using it.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 day ago
Lmao
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Join us at !saltycaramelapple@sh.itjust.works !
rekabis@lemmy.ca 14 minutes ago
On iOS you can install a system-wide DNS configuration profile for AdGuard without having to install any app.
It doesn’t deal with ads served up from the exact same API/domain as the content, but any source of ads that is drawn from a different domain can be blocked and usually is blocked.
About the only apps I still see ads in are YouTube, Pinterest, and Facebook. All apps that use third-party advertising feeds have those ads blocked.