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I use Apple maps because I'm tired of Google's bullshit, not because Apple Maps is a better product. * Google just "has to have" _Web And Search History_ enabl
by exabrial 3y ago
I use Apple maps because I'm tired of Google's bullshit, not because Apple Maps is a better product.
* Google just "has to have" _Web And Search History_ enabled to enable some features. Really? How did we possibly exist before this?
* I'm tired of typing in stuff into Google Maps and seeing ads across the entire fucking internet for bass fishing of I time bass (as in guitar) into Google Maps
* There is no reason I should have to "sign into" a mapping product or even have a fucking account. When I sign out, all the sudden somehow I'm signed out of google in my browser. What in the actual fuck? What are these cross-app attacks even a thing?
Apple maps leaves a lot to be desired but it's worth the hassle to get around Google. Its the same reason I own an iPhone... Android phones are superior in hardware, durability, speed, picture quality, interoperability, but you can break Google's creepy addiction to your gazing up your buttox for anything personal.
- xethos 3y ago> Android phones are superior in hardware At least regarding choice in hardware. I'm tapping this out from the last BlackBerry handset ever produced (albeit by a third party), and I can hang on to it indefinitely because I can replace the parts as they break. The hardware isn't gated to what the OEM allows. For maps, OSM works well enough. And when I find a place I want to go that's not mapped, Google Maps in a mobile browser works just fine - no account or app needed. Hell, at least one time (visiting in Germany) OSM had the correct opening hours for a shop that Google Maps had wrong. Google is not all-knowing, or even required for modern life.