So much for the “Apple is all about privacy whereas Google monetizes you” schtick.
Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app
Submitted 5 months ago by tonytins@pawb.social to technology@lemmy.world
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arc99@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 months 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
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 5 months 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 5 months ago
or at least something I can install on a Google pixel
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
graphene with no play store.
_thisdot@infosec.pub 5 months ago
Aren’t there privacy friendly OSes you can already install on your Google Pixel?
Reygle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
cackles maniacally in GrapheneOS
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
if pixel phones weren’t so expensive id i get one just for graphene
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
People actually use Apple Maps?
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
yes my ex does, why i dunno lol
airportline@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I do because it doesn’t have ads
WindyRebel@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Switch a while ago. It’s pretty damn great.
mean_bean279@lemmy.world 5 months 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 5 months 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.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 5 months ago
stupid because people literally pay alot of money for Apple tech,but maybe greed got into them.
rekabis@lemmy.ca 5 months 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.
dajoho@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Treat the cause, not the symptom.
rekabis@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Treat the cause,
Right. Like obtaining a controlling interest in Apple is just so easy to achieve. Now, where did I leave my random trillions?…
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Organic Maps or OsmAnd is out there, just saying.
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Joelk111@lemmy.world 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months ago
[deleted]bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Yes Organic Maps and CoMaps (its open community fork) both support Car Play
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
OsmAnd does have a CarPlay option. Dunno about Organic Maps and its forks.
peetabix@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Wow, so brave.
minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Courage.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Depends on the ads though.
Krompus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Everything is shitty! 🎶
CAVOK@lemmy.world 5 months ago
OrganicMaps isn’t.
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
“What the fuck you gonna do? Use Android?!??! Fuck you and and be happy about it” - Tim Apple, probably
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Doesn’t Google Maps have ads?
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months ago
There are already ads in Google Maps, there is nothing for them to follow.
sonofearth@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Whotf even used Apple Maps lol
garretble@lemmy.world 5 months 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 months ago
LosersPeople deep in the apple ecosystem. There’s a surprising number these days.SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months 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 5 months 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.
fodor@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
OpenStreetMap for the win, my peoples.
Routhinator@startrek.website 5 months ago
Specifically OSMAnd.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 5 months ago
Works perfectly as long as you already know where you’re going!
YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 5 months 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 5 months ago
Join us at !saltycaramelapple@sh.itjust.works !
realitista@lemmus.org 5 months ago
Thereby ensuring I never begin using it.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Still not serious about their maps eh.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
you say that like google doesn’t do this even worse.
tonytins@pawb.social 5 months ago
I still remember all those Apple Maps memes.
Gnomie@lemmy.world 5 months ago
what do people think of Organic Maps?
Blackout@fedia.io 5 months ago
It's pretty good I just wish it had more ads
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 5 months ago
Awesome! Also Magic Earth. And CalTopo, too!
confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
OK, so if I’m on Apple hardware, for now, what’s the best alternative to “Apple Maps”?
Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
OsmAnd Maps, Organic Maps, and Co Maps are all worth looking at.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 months ago
TheBat@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I thought people liked using Apple products because of the premium experience that ecosystem provides.
reddig33@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They did. Someone at the top has been ruining that experience lately.
zewm@lemmy.world 5 months 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 5 months ago
You can name names, it’s Tim Cook, Craig Federighi, Phil Schiller, and Greg Joswiak.
RustyShackleford@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
elgordino@fedia.io 5 months ago
I’m reportedly getting ready to move to CoMaps.
leaf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
I just need to contribute to a few more towns in Openstreetmap and Apple Maps is gone from my phone.
treeko@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Fuck I just started using it because of how horribly shit google maps has become
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 5 months 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 5 months ago
Supposedly comaps has carplay support as of like 2 months ago, according to a page on their website
treeko@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Thanks for the suggestions! I’ll look into it
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months 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)
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 months 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.
treeko@lemmy.world 5 months 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
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 5 months 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 5 months ago
The thing is, Apple getting worse is coinciding with everything else getting worse, too.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
for real, fucking everything sucks now.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m sure that will really annoy all seven people that use it…
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months 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.
zewm@lemmy.world 5 months ago
People use Apple Maps? 🤔
discosnails@lemmy.wtf 5 months ago
If you’re not paying for it, you are the product; except for with 🍏 and then it’s both.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
It seems to me that advertising is the real secret cabal that is running the world.
orioler25@lemmy.world 5 months ago
“Secret cabal” as in capitalism and its imperatives sure, pretty out in the open though.