← Back to context Comment by NoMoreNicksLeft 7 months ago [flagged] 11 comments NoMoreNicksLeft Reply troupo 7 months ago It's worse than that. Apple will let users set a default maps app... only in the EU https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/03/14/dma-compliance-default-ma...The pettiness is off the charts kevincox 7 months ago It's not pettiness, its just business. They want the lock in, they want the ad views they want the user data. Don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower. lemoncucumber 7 months ago Thus far Apple Maps doesn't have ads. There are rumors they may ad them (pun intended), but I don't think their motivations for steering people towards Apple Maps are primarily monetary. 3 replies → RandomThoughts3 7 months ago [dead] bilbo0s 7 months ago Yeah. That particular one is definitely a case of “not today Satan”.I do wish there was a non-privacy invading maps app outside of Apple though. thisislife2 7 months ago Check out Organic Maps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37347447 ) pabs3 7 months ago The CoMaps fork might be a better choice:https://www.comaps.app/ NoMoreNicksLeft 7 months ago Thanks. Will check it out... as far as I know, no one's died being lost in the Australian desert with it, so it's got that going for it.
troupo 7 months ago It's worse than that. Apple will let users set a default maps app... only in the EU https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/03/14/dma-compliance-default-ma...The pettiness is off the charts kevincox 7 months ago It's not pettiness, its just business. They want the lock in, they want the ad views they want the user data. Don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower. lemoncucumber 7 months ago Thus far Apple Maps doesn't have ads. There are rumors they may ad them (pun intended), but I don't think their motivations for steering people towards Apple Maps are primarily monetary. 3 replies → RandomThoughts3 7 months ago [dead]
kevincox 7 months ago It's not pettiness, its just business. They want the lock in, they want the ad views they want the user data. Don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower. lemoncucumber 7 months ago Thus far Apple Maps doesn't have ads. There are rumors they may ad them (pun intended), but I don't think their motivations for steering people towards Apple Maps are primarily monetary. 3 replies → RandomThoughts3 7 months ago [dead]
lemoncucumber 7 months ago Thus far Apple Maps doesn't have ads. There are rumors they may ad them (pun intended), but I don't think their motivations for steering people towards Apple Maps are primarily monetary. 3 replies →
bilbo0s 7 months ago Yeah. That particular one is definitely a case of “not today Satan”.I do wish there was a non-privacy invading maps app outside of Apple though. thisislife2 7 months ago Check out Organic Maps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37347447 ) pabs3 7 months ago The CoMaps fork might be a better choice:https://www.comaps.app/ NoMoreNicksLeft 7 months ago Thanks. Will check it out... as far as I know, no one's died being lost in the Australian desert with it, so it's got that going for it.
thisislife2 7 months ago Check out Organic Maps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37347447 ) pabs3 7 months ago The CoMaps fork might be a better choice:https://www.comaps.app/ NoMoreNicksLeft 7 months ago Thanks. Will check it out... as far as I know, no one's died being lost in the Australian desert with it, so it's got that going for it.
NoMoreNicksLeft 7 months ago Thanks. Will check it out... as far as I know, no one's died being lost in the Australian desert with it, so it's got that going for it.
It's worse than that. Apple will let users set a default maps app... only in the EU https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/03/14/dma-compliance-default-ma...
The pettiness is off the charts
It's not pettiness, its just business. They want the lock in, they want the ad views they want the user data. Don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower.
Thus far Apple Maps doesn't have ads. There are rumors they may ad them (pun intended), but I don't think their motivations for steering people towards Apple Maps are primarily monetary.
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Yeah. That particular one is definitely a case of “not today Satan”.
I do wish there was a non-privacy invading maps app outside of Apple though.
Check out Organic Maps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37347447 )
The CoMaps fork might be a better choice:
https://www.comaps.app/
Thanks. Will check it out... as far as I know, no one's died being lost in the Australian desert with it, so it's got that going for it.