Stop using Apple
this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2026
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Your address is incorrect. You need to drop the s off of it
Ooops, thanks for pointing it out. I have corrected the post
How’s their route algorithms? Never used it for navigation
OSMAnd+ is a good app. Using openmaps. You often Ned the address of where you are going since place searches of businesses may no come up. But the navigation has been good.
I have observed no issues. Every once in a while, when choosing large targets like an airport, it's hard to chose the right "destination" from the many available as the labels don't always have all details.
Other than that, no issues whatsoever.
PS: to put it in context, I am a casual user who basically never remembers street names or directions so I use it often but it's not like I am an Uber driver
Good. Enshittify to your heart's content, until people realise that just sucking a different big tech corp's tit is not the solution.
Serves anyone using that garbage right.
Lol I used to think they scrapped the maps app entirely. Surprised it still exists. Who even uses it outside the US?
I'm not even an apple user but i use their maps as an alternative to gmaps on ddg.
and a shitty one at that... DDG was good, now it's just Bing + Apple maps which is bad on both fronts
I like ddg. I think its getting better and better. I almost never need to fall back on google search Compared to 8 years ago where i often had to.
I throw a lot of shit at Google but Google Maps is the best piece of software they have ever created. I wish OSM was this upto date with their data but it has a long way to go. I think this that piece of software which needs a big dedicated team or at-least paid volunteers instead of community volunteers because there ain’t no way I am going out to volunteer for free to map out my neighbourhood accurately.
Mapping your neighborhood is actually a lot of fun if you use StreetComplete! Nice way to get outside and explore.
I throw a lot of shit at Google but Google Maps is the best piece of software they have ever created
Agreed but that is not really saying much considering Google's resources and how often the fuck everything up
because there ain’t no way I am going out to volunteer for free to map out my neighbourhood accurately.
because you enjoy corporate oversight and ads? or because you don't see the benefit to you personally?
because you enjoy corporate oversight and ads? or because you don’t see the benefit to you personally?
Bruh. Everything doesn't have to be political. I simply don't have the time, energy and willingness to learn and contribute to a project which people in my community are not even going to use. The incentive simply isn't their for anyone when there is already a perfectly working solution—as much as I hate to say—from Google. I wish OSM and the maps & navigation apps using it were more popular and better but they aren't simply because they don't have dedicated teams.
Google Maps also get contributions from the community (which is much larger than OSM). So google benefits from volunteer contributions as well as their own teams mapping stuff around the world which OSM can never match. It isn't something like Search, Drive or Photos that can be replaced by a community driven FOSS alternative. It requires huge funding.
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Pretty much everyone?
Edit: D'oh, I thought this was about Google maps. My bad.
This was the only reason I used it.
On to the next!
"Apple cares about your privacy"
Not from THEMSELVES, never from themselves.
Ive got a work iPad. There are ads in the calculator (plus a paid upgrade for like the smart pencil scribble math upgrade. Imagine paying $700 AUD for the cheapest iPad here in AUS, for a subscription fee for the calculator)
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.
There's room for you at Comaps! It's nice and it works on iOS, FOSS
Just stay away from Magic Earth; they did a rug pull by going from 99¢/year to $20/year without notifying people.
I love Comaps. I have it installed on my Android phone. I contribute to OpenStreet maps when I can.
But, I don't think Comaps is a realistic replacement for Apple or Google maps.
One: OpenStreet maps is missing a toooon of locations, businesses and residential addresses. Two: having the enter the address in a non-standard way (for the US) City, Street, Building Number, makes finding things even harder. That's gonna instantly turn away 99% of people.
I still begrudgingly have Google maps installed on my phone... :(
I also have HERE Maps installed on my phone. It's way more usable than Comaps and it's not Google. But, it's not FOSS and still owned by a big corporation. But at least it's not (entirely) owned by the US (Magic Earth is). For me, I think HERE maps is a decent step away from Google.
I'll still keep contributing to OpenStreet maps, hoping one day I can switch to Comaps.
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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.
You can trade your iPhone with an Android user who figured if Google is going to force developer certifications for installing apps then there is no point in using Android over iPhone and they might as well switch.
...oooh, i sense a business opportunity for an intermediation platform: foneswapp.org, no wait, all electronics in general: eswapp.org, no wait, we can do like used consumer goods: swapp.org, now we're cooking with gas!..
...register a handful of TLDs, spend an afternoon vibe-coding a prototype, invite over some VCs, revolutionise commerce for the impending societal collapse, father maybe a few hundred children, found a new civilisation that lives in a dome, stay young forever until barbarians come and set fire to our home...
...great idea!..
Year of the Linux phone!
Well... Here's hoping KDE Plasma Mobile takes off I guess...
I was going to say the same thing.. there's no point to Google android anymore either. I guess we're all going to LineageOS.
Im just enjoying my ad free life with degoogled android
lol switching an entire phone ecosystem because there might be an ad coming to your area in the form of one single ad in a search query on one single app. bruh, LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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?
This is why Apple users pay more to not use Google stuff…
Fuck this.
Default search engine? Google. Apple Intelligence? Believe it or not, also Google.
But no adverts.
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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
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Surely this time their famous design standards will be applied to their UX.
Surely.
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