I thought people liked using Apple products because of the premium experience that ecosystem provides.
Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app
Submitted 3 weeks ago by tonytins@pawb.social to technology@lemmy.world
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TheBat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
reddig33@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They did. Someone at the top has been ruining that experience lately.
zewm@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
You can name names, it’s Tim Cook, Craig Federighi, Phil Schiller, and Greg Joswiak.
treeko@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fuck I just started using it because of how horribly shit google maps has become
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Supposedly comaps has carplay support as of like 2 months ago, according to a page on their website
treeko@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thanks for the suggestions! I’ll look into it
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
The thing is, Apple getting worse is coinciding with everything else getting worse, too.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
for real, fucking everything sucks now.
Soup@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
“What the fuck you gonna do? Use Android?!??! Fuck you and and be happy about it” - Tim Apple, probably
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Doesn’t Google Maps have ads?
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Kind of.
They’re not in your face. But they make sure their sponsors show up on the maps with custom pins
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.”
dev_null@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
There are already ads in Google Maps, there is nothing for them to follow.
fodor@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
OpenStreetMap for the win, my peoples.
Routhinator@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
Specifically OSMAnd.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 2 weeks ago
Works perfectly as long as you already know where you’re going!
arc99@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So much for the “Apple is all about privacy whereas Google monetizes you” schtick.
Krompus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Everything is shitty! 🎶
CAVOK@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
OrganicMaps isn’t.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
People actually use Apple Maps?
WindyRebel@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Switch a while ago. It’s pretty damn great.
mean_bean279@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Here in Cali I’ve noticed it’s actually better. Google Maps has been ass for the last 4 years for me. Wrong data, it takes me randomly off the freeway only to loop my back and put me right back where I got off. It has completely wrong traffic data, and it has road closures it thinks are still open. When I travel around the bay for work I mostly use Apple Maps.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I experienced the same glitches that everyone else did when it first launched but it’s been perfectly fine for years. My gf’s android Google Maps will routinely have us make several turns just to end up on the same road we were already traveling on so navigation is done on my phone and the playlist on hers.
VeryVito@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Apple Maps had a rough few months at its start, but it’s never let me down since — I’ve used it to drive across country (many times, many directions) and across town. Combined with CarPlay, it’s the only digital screen I’d ever want in my car’s dashboard.
Ads would destroy the only thing I’ve enjoyed about newer cars in decades.
airportline@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I do because it doesn’t have ads
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
yes my ex does, why i dunno lol
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Organic Maps or OsmAnd is out there, just saying.
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Organic Maps is so fucking good, I keep so much of it downloaded as a backup for when I’m offline, because it just works. That said, I still use Google maps due to the reviews of businesses and traffic data when navigating normally, but it’s good to know a great alternative is out there.
Don_alForno@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Sadly, finding businesses and traffic data are 99% of the reason I open google maps. I have organic installed, but I’ve since found out that “I want to go somewhere I don’t know the way to but have found out the street address some other way, and I don’t care about the traffic in between” simply doesn’t happen.
mapu@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
You might want to switch to CoMaps. Most developers fled there after the owners of Organic Maps showed shady behaviour regarding donations and the future of the project
VeryVito@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Are they CarPlay enabled?
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yes Organic Maps and CoMaps (its open community fork) both support Car Play
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
OsmAnd does have a CarPlay option. Dunno about Organic Maps and its forks.
confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
OK, so if I’m on Apple hardware, for now, what’s the best alternative to “Apple Maps”?
Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
OsmAnd Maps, Organic Maps, and Co Maps are all worth looking at.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
RustyShackleford@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
elgordino@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
I’m reportedly getting ready to move to CoMaps.
leaf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I just need to contribute to a few more towns in Openstreetmap and Apple Maps is gone from my phone.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Between this and android phones with ads on lockscreens, I’m ready for someone to finally release a good Linux phone.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
or at least something I can install on a Google pixel
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
graphene with no play store.
_thisdot@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Aren’t there privacy friendly OSes you can already install on your Google Pixel?
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It seems to me that advertising is the real secret cabal that is running the world.
orioler25@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Secret cabal” as in capitalism and its imperatives sure, pretty out in the open though.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Me: “What the fuck? I didnt tell it to take me to Starbucks.”
Siri: TRY STARBUCKS NEW PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE NOW AVAILABLE FOR A LIMITED TIME
Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
stupid because people literally pay alot of money for Apple tech,but maybe greed got into them.
zewm@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
People use Apple Maps? 🤔
veeesix@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It’s come a long way to finally being good. This ain’t your grandpa’s orchard variety map.
zewm@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It still forces you to use yelp app for everything. Gonna be a no from me dawg.
Cedar@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Well, I mean, it kinda is now.
sicjoke@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes. I find it easily as good as the alternatives.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It was miles ahead of the other one because it wasn’t full of stupid ads. That was its one feature. Was.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m sure that will really annoy all seven people that use it…
sonofearth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Whotf even used Apple Maps lol
garretble@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
LosersPeople deep in the apple ecosystem. There’s a surprising number these days.SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
Gnomie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
what do people think of Organic Maps?
Blackout@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
It's pretty good I just wish it had more ads
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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.
rekabis@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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.
Reygle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
cackles maniacally in GrapheneOS
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Still not serious about their maps eh.
peetabix@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Wow, so brave.
realitista@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
Thereby ensuring I never begin using it.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Lmao
YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Join us at !saltycaramelapple@sh.itjust.works !
discosnails@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
If you’re not paying for it, you are the product; except for with 🍏 and then it’s both.
stoy@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
artyom@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
They literally didn’t say anything about Android or Google…
discosnails@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Oh, well, if Google does it then it must be okay.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Open Street Maps doesn’t do any of this bullshit.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
they did pay 1000$+ phones just to have ads on it.
garretble@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just like every Android phone that comes pre-loaded with trash apps you have to delete.