Tony BarkApple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app
TachyonTeleIf you’re not paying for it, you are the product; except for with 🍏 and then it’s both.
artyomIdk what you’re talking about, I program my own OSs in assembly language and solder my own hardware from e-waste. Get gud normie.
Sir_Kevinthey did pay 1000$+ phones just to have ads on it.
garretbleJust like every Android phone that comes pre-loaded with trash apps you have to delete.
i bought a min OP12R, i had delete a couple apps i dont use on it. A carrier issued phone has even worst bloat. I just disabled most of the google ones, like play, and WALLET because it kept activating tag on public transport, i had to do a work around since there wasnt an easy way to completely eliminate that.
The last angelOnly in the USA, I think. I’m in the UK and don’t have ‘trash apps’.
Unless you mean Facebook and YouTube, thinking about it, which yeah is annoying.
zewm
veeeIt’s come a long way to finally being good. This ain’t your grandpa’s orchard variety map.
sicjokeAnyone 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.
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!
No complaints about Yomu.
JaymesRS
pelespiritI 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.
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.
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.
sure, but do you think he’d be okay with a severely underpowered camera or super thick phone compared to the competition? Neither of those things happened under Jobs either.
It’s not that simple to blame Cook for everything that’s different about iphones now. It was a lot easier to stick to rigid principles in the early days when the market was wide open and the tech rapidly maturing every year. They were making money hand over fist just picking off the low hanging fruit of smartphone evolution. That isn’t enough these days when you have shareholders to answer to.
severely underpowered camera
Bruh, the first iPhone didn’t have a camera
The thing is, Apple getting worse is coinciding with everything else getting worse, too.
for real, fucking everything sucks now.
treekoI 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)
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.
NovalingIf 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 cities
Supposedly comaps has carplay support as of like 2 months ago, according to a page on their website
Damn I need to try this
Leaf (she/her)I just need to contribute to a few more towns in Openstreetmap and Apple Maps is gone from my phone.
RustyShackleford
This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥I thought people liked using Apple products because of the premium experience that ecosystem provides.
I think it’s more likely just Tim Cook. The buck stops with him. Someone needs to say no to some of this stuff (liquid glass, yearly release schedules, etc.) and that someone should have been him.
I was so hopeful they might just skip one yearly release and focus on bug fixes and technical debt. But then they go and change the name of the version to match the calendar year, and now I’m convinced we’re never going to get a stable iOS again.
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I switched from Google to Apple back in 2018 and the royal fucking 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.
I switched in 2021. I havent noticed any fuckupery. Whats been happening ?
Same, I had been on android since the OG Droid and switched around the same time for similar reasons.
If Apple is going to charge premium prices just to splash ads on their products I’m moving on again.
The ads don’t bother me as much as the low QA lately. I upgraded to iOS26 and it’s the buggiest product ever. I have the newest iPhone pro/max and it should be able to handle it fine. Siri never works, apps crash, freeze, the interface is extremely ugly to look at (the liquid crap). Just overall it feels half assed.
Yeah, I have an iPhone 15 Pro and Safari is freezing or just not even allowing me to close windows until I restart the app.
I haven’t tried turning it off yet, but my suspicion is the Liquid Glass and all the stuff it needs to do is taking priority.
OK, so if I’m on Apple hardware, for now, what’s the best alternative to “Apple Maps”?
OsmAnd Maps, Organic Maps, and Co Maps are all worth looking at.
CoMaps - Sopuli
Cooperative community open-source fork of Organic Maps, an offline privacy-respecting not-for-profit OpenStreetMap GPS app for your phone. CoMaps website [https://www.comaps.app/] Codeberg [https://codeberg.org/comaps] Matrix [https://matrix.to/#/#comaps:matrix.org] Mastodon [https://floss.social/@CoMaps] OpenCollective [https://opencollective.com/comaps] —
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