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There's room for you at Comaps! It's nice and it works on iOS, FOSS

This is why Apple users pay more to not use Google stuff…

Fuck this.

That article slurps Apple’s nutsac for having such a great moneymaking idea! Fuck ads. Tired of everything being a vessel for marketing.

Wow they haven't even made it good enough for me to use yet and they are already enshittifying it?

Comaps is available for iphones :3

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/comaps/id6747180809

also for others:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/app.comaps.fdroid/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.comaps.google

THE reason why i use apple is because I'm not subjected to ads. Is there any point using apple anymore if they're going to inject ads? Holy shit, Time to go back to android if we're gonna get ads and instead pay less for a phone.

Lol I used to think they scrapped the maps app entirely. Surprised it still exists. Who even uses it outside the US?

www.openstreetmap.org

Stop using Apple

I prefer Apple Maps because it’s not ad laden but the coverage for businesses simply isn’t there, and it is pretty aggressive about populating businesses that don’t really exist (ie the business registration not the place of business, if they have one eg Plumber who doesn’t have a shop), don’t exist in the category (eg a factory isn’t a retail establishment), or just plain don’t exist. It also likes to ignore the actual road name for directions; instead of “take the exit towards A361 Burford Rd”, it says “take the exit to Diddly Squat Market” because some street view scanner picked up a sign and chose the wrong one.

If they start pushing ads, Google wins in “find me dinner nearby”.

I mean… maps has been kinda shitty for years!

It’s still better than Wayze trying to sell you burgers and fries at every stop sign… but you need to tap the search box like 3 fucking times to input shit, and why is that? So you have ample opportunity to see Crapple’s list of “suggestions….“

And have you noticed that you need to zoom down to AntMan scale to see the names of some businesses in a shopping center, and yet others are virtually visible from orbit? Could it be that businesses that pay Apple stick out like a sore thumb, and business that don’t virtually disappear? Nah… Fucking Apphole behavior.

It’s time to face facts, Apple stopped giving a shit about the customer years ago. Before their headquarters was literally a Bond villain’s donut you could drive through their parking lot and it was a sea of shitty rust buckets, executive parking lot underground.

I was giving serious consideration to going Android again rather then buying a 2K+ tablet… but then I need to buy a new watch and phone at the same time to have a slim chance of interoperability so it’s basically a wash.

Fuck Apple.

Good. Enshittify to your heart's content, until people realise that just sucking a different big tech corp's tit is not the solution.

"Apple cares about your privacy"

Serves anyone using that garbage right.

Like apple maps doesn't suck enough already?

I wish it was better because that's the map DDG pulls up in search. Wonder if those ads are going to show in DDG sesrches now.

Surely this time their famous design standards will be applied to their UX.

Surely.

It’s already been working like garbage lately. Wonder if this is related.