Dave DeLongI wonder if it's now time to dust off yet-another-side-project of "writing the mapping app i wish Apple had actually made (and that I tried to push for when I worked on Maps)"
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/24/apple-maps-ads-announced/
rico becker@davedelong Do you think they will allow competing* map apps without ads?
*functionality close to Maps.app
Rachel Brindle@davedelong there’s so many things on my ToDon’t list that I’m now having to reconsider taking off that list.
eickot@davedelong No more questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ
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Peter Hosey@davedelong I like how it says “coming” when I already have to shove all the useless Guides out of the way when I launch Maps on my iPad.
(It's an older iPad so maybe they toned it down since then. But that just means this is coming *back*.)