I use parallely, both types of devices. The work one was an iphone. Hated it.
Missed so many features, like changing the volume of individual type of things....
the fact apple didn't even fix the green bubble with RCS and their app theming sucks, not to mention how many things you can do with a stock android that you can't do on a stock iPhone....
With introducing RCS they are not even providing end to end encryption properly... Especially if you dare to message through that protocol, an Android. Google messages made sure that RCS only e2eencrypts between Androids. That's why the f b I told americans to use third party messengers....
I’m 🤏 this close to just going back to a dumb phone and saying to hell with all this technology. Better for infosec anyway in this fascist techno feudalist surveillance state.
Laughing because I just switched back to Android after years of using an iPhone because I like physically closing my smartphone. 😅 Apple is way more secure but it's definitely tempting to go full flip phone these days.
That’s why. Read somewhere that they cha be it depending on from where you open the map. I have a few trips coming all over the globe. Will be interesting to see where it’s shown how.
I’m in the US in the deepest red state in the country. I’m 40 miles from the Canadian border. I call it hillbilly hell everyone else calls it northern Idaho
I have an Android for my personal phone and an Apple for my with phone and Apple maps is always worse. I haven't tried TomTom but I'm going to give it a go because I can't get Apple maps on my android.
That's fair, try Here Maps too, I like how they have offline downloads so I use it when going to the Far North in Canada. Not as sophisticated, but it has its purpose
I’m so sad because it was literally Gulf of Mexico like two hours ago. My mom’s iPhone switches from Gulf of Mexico to America when she zooms in and out of maps.
Well Google also renamed it to Gulf of America, so looks like you’ll be without a phone. Unless you manage to find one that doesn’t use iOS or Android.
It’s just a name, it’ll probably return back to old when he finishes his term…
Not the point. Point is any company that shakes in the wake of ITs idiotic behavior doesn’t have the balls big enough to garner my respect or support!!!!!
Well it’s either pretend to support Trump or get hit by tariffs and loose a ton of money, not to mention he’ll probably find something else he can do to make you business worse.
Well I’ll never pretend anything.
Never pretended I was straight
Never pretended that anything I’ve ever done I didn’t do.
So that is simply not an option.
I’m not so attached to my money to sacrifice my integrity for it.
Maybe not the most educated way to pick an ecosystem. None of them are saints, but, Apple themselves knows that their own AI is such a massive privacy minefield they can't launch it in Europe. Because, privacy is still a legislated thing on this side of the Big Pond. I'd value that more than a map.
plus Apple is likely going to change it, pretty sure they handed out $2m to trump inauguration
plus the downsides of an iPhone doesn't equal the unnecessary requirement for it to say Mexico instead of America
I doubt most people even look at gulf of Mexico/America enough for this to be justified
For what I know there is a law regarding official names in the US, it even has it’s own government agency, that Trump bypassed because he technically can
I’m not sure if the law only requires names made by that specific agency or if it’s any official name made by the government
Cook or Pichai, spineless as they are don’t have the same pull as some of these others on the company they lead. They aren’t the founders. (Or Xhief asshole like Musk)
Im past the point of benefit of the doubt. Especially when it comes to their mass surveillance programs with the cute names of “windows recall” and “Apple AI”.
Just checked. But what is weird is that doesn’t have our address located correctly. It sites the house 5 houses away and causes problems with deliveries. I need to tackle that again.
I've had several such glitches on Apple Maps. There's a button to send corrections to Apple. Usually implemented in 24–96hrs.
I will admit it was confusing when I couldn't find a hotel in a country where I didn't speak the language all that well. Hotel was only 150m away, but bend in the road…
Other than the obvious, can you imagine the millions of dollars that are going to be wasted around the Gulf to rename all the signs. I hope local authorities and businesses simply decide to ignore it and tell Trump to fuck off.
I think theywere basically doing that to not get the tariffs because a lot of their phones are produced in China from chinese materials....Money down the drain.
And if you look at the app or website goods unite you would be shocked how many brands do that.
Zoomed in, zoomed out, nothing. Went back 'home', redid the search. Just as it was focussing in on the Gulf, I saw the name 'Gulf of Mexico' flash on the screen, but then when it stopped, again nothing. But if I search Florida, then pan over, there it is 'Gulf of Mexico'...very weird.
Still, very depressing about Google. I've been a diehard Google Maps/Earth user since day 1. Apple will never have the data but I just can't even look at a map with that stupid name.
I think that outside the USA, maps will have both names as the 'Gulf of Mexico' is the internationally recognised one. 'Gulf of America - it like bribing a kid with a few trinkets.
capitulation to tyranny? brother Mexico is part of America so Gulf of America is correct.
do realize "America" doesn't mean USA (United States *of* America), so countries like Canada and Mexico and Brazil and Argentina etc are part of America 🤦
Brother, the Gulf of Mexico has been named the Gulf of Mexico for 474 years, and Trump doesn't have the authority to change it. The rest of the world still recognizes it as the Gulf of Mexico, but Google? They absolutely capitulated.
You don’t think it’s offensive that he nakedly hates Mexico that much? What could his problem with it have possibly been other than racism? What kind of psycho even thinks names of international waters can be renamed and then does it? It’s disturbing to watch the workings of such a sad, broken brain
On my phone (my os is in French), Apple maps calls it “Golfe du Mexique” and Google maps calls it… “Golfe du Mexique” and, between brackets, “Golfe d’Amérique”. 😂
I think this has always been the format when the local name for a place differs from the name used by the expected readership. The atlas I grew up with had things like Cologne (Köln).
Well, no. Alas, it's now official in the US. Geographic name changes traditionally went through Congress, but apparently POTUS does actually have the requisite authority over US Geographic Survey.-(
If you think this is stupid, wait till you see the bill Buddy Carter has introduced to the House.
Insane that Google has set it for USA, Mexico, then rest of world. For all the GOP that have claimed it's Democrats who are communist: hello, this is what companies do for China:
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Missed so many features, like changing the volume of individual type of things....
ah, my local tabletop game store is still on here. good times....
https://bsky.app/profile/tomwarren.co.uk/post/3lhwlxekqqs2m
https://www.apple.com/maps/
Same face we make now when we see him too.
I have an IPhone for now. But I’m done with Apple!!!!
It’s just a name, it’ll probably return back to old when he finishes his term…
Never pretended I was straight
Never pretended that anything I’ve ever done I didn’t do.
So that is simply not an option.
I’m not so attached to my money to sacrifice my integrity for it.
https://bsky.app/profile/macrumors.bsky.social/post/3lhwlrcuiwt26
plus the downsides of an iPhone doesn't equal the unnecessary requirement for it to say Mexico instead of America
I doubt most people even look at gulf of Mexico/America enough for this to be justified
You can put your phone in UK if you really want to see the Gulf of Mexico instead of the gulf of swastika
I’m not sure if the law only requires names made by that specific agency or if it’s any official name made by the government
But yeah, I don’t know which law I just know it exists :3
People should be leaving apple and microsoft hardware due to there AI spyware that is fast being implemented.
No thank you.
I will admit it was confusing when I couldn't find a hotel in a country where I didn't speak the language all that well. Hotel was only 150m away, but bend in the road…
Apple is just as much a corrupt, oligarchic corporation as Google.
OSM is free, community developed, open-source software that doesn't track or spy on you. Also correctly names the Gulf of Mexico.
And if you look at the app or website goods unite you would be shocked how many brands do that.
Still, very depressing about Google. I've been a diehard Google Maps/Earth user since day 1. Apple will never have the data but I just can't even look at a map with that stupid name.
i feel like governments shouldn't be allowed to control these things lmao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXfuQqkwa5I
(Note: I'm not in the loop of what's going on in the world.)
do realize "America" doesn't mean USA (United States *of* America), so countries like Canada and Mexico and Brazil and Argentina etc are part of America 🤦
Devils advocate
If you think this is stupid, wait till you see the bill Buddy Carter has introduced to the House.
Google have Gulf of
America in brackets.