i bought a min OP12R, i had delete a couple apps i dont use on it. A carrier issued phone has even worst bloat. I just disabled most of the google ones, like play, and WALLET because it kept activating tag (fare machine)on public transport, i had to do a work around since there wasnt an easy way to completely eliminate that.
More like 2026 + 10, Linux phones are severely lagging behind, enough so that they are at least 10 years away from having enough adoption for banks and the like to recognize their existence, the annoying truth is that it cannot be mainstream until it is able to use these critical apps with no workarounds as "it works but isn't allowed" will be the death knell of any amount of mainstream appeal.
How do you deal with 2fa? For capital one in particular, I don't believe there is an option not to use their app, and the other banks that I use are in the same boat or adamantly recommend to use their app.
It's amazing how Americans love poking their nose into everyone else's affairs yet can be so oblivious. For some people a phone is literally the only device they have, they can't do anything else.
one of the reasons mobile phone theft is so lucrative, because people are so obliging to keep their entire financial information downloaded to a single device
[Citation needed]
The most common reason for mobile phone theft is to wipe it and sell it, or just dismantle it for parts.
No common thief is going to be trying to break into an iPhone's security system to get to someone's banking data.
How do you deal with 2fa? For capital one in particular, I don't believe there is an option not to use their app, and the other banks that I use are in the same boat or adamantly recommend to use their app.
I'm this close to getting a fucking TomTom. I need something that can do turn by turn navigation in a car, ideally through Android Auto, but nothing good goes on Android Auto anymore.
How long until we crack this protocol anyway so we can use Linux phones with Android Auto?
The ads donāt bother me as much as the low QA lately. I upgraded to iOS26 and itās the buggiest product ever. I have the newest iPhone pro/max and it should be able to handle it fine. Siri never works, apps crash, freeze, the interface is extremely ugly to look at (the liquid crap). Just overall it feels half assed.
Yeah, I have an iPhone 15 Pro and Safari is freezing or just not even allowing me to close windows until I restart the app sometimes. That or websites wonāt load and then I restart the app and try again and they load fine.
I havenāt tried turning it off yet, but my suspicion is the Liquid Glass and all the stuff it needs to do is taking priority.
I think itās more likely just Tim Cook. The buck stops with him. Someone needs to say no to some of this stuff (liquid glass, yearly release schedules, etc.) and that someone should have been him.
I was so hopeful they might just skip one yearly release and focus on bug fixes and technical debt. But then they go and change the name of the version to match the calendar year, and now Iām convinced weāre never going to get a stable iOS again.
If you don't need traffic data, CoMaps (uses OpenStreet Map data).
If you do need traffic data (understandable) Magic Earth is what I use. It's unfortunately not fully open source, only the map data is from OSM, but I find the navigation good 95% of the time, sometimes you have to make your own judgement for if a route might have bad traffic. At least it's not Google or Apple, and no ads.
I don't do car play, so I have no idea about how that works.
I wish we had better alternatives or that cars all exploded and we went to public transport and walkable cities
I don't use maps often but what's been going wrong in Google maps? I know whatever Uber/Lyft was using was having a hard time keeping up with local changes (bridges being shut down for months would stay on every driver's directions), they'd switch to Google to get an accurate map
Itās still accurate for directions, but search results and map viewing have gone to shit because of google accepting money to highlight certain businesses - taking up huge chunks of the map with their square icons
I uninstalled it when it told me to turn left at the Wendyāsā¢ instead of a fucking street name. After I missed my turn and got to my destination late, I looked it up and the place it was talking about was visually obscured by another building so I couldnāt have possibly known where to turn. Fuck that noise.
I know this is my own personal experience, but diehard Apple fans in my circle have started to say, "Fuck Apple." I think they're PR and goodwill is finally running out.
Steve Jobs, for all his other problems, knew how to run a company and held to the idea that they needed to make good products. He kept the prices fairly low for what they were, and they even decreased over time for many of their products. He wouldnāt allow unfinished products to be released which is a big reason why I always laughed at Android people who claimed āfirstā with their buggy, shitty versions of the reliable thing Apple made a couple years later.
But then for some reason he let Tim Cook, who had been an idiot at Apple for a long time and Jobās knew it, take over. Since then prices have sky-rocketed and the company has started releasing stuff that just isnāt up to the standards they held in the past. He even took power away from the guy who had come up with Appleās iconic aesthetic.
Whether or not people want to admit, Apple made excellent products and the customers arenāt nearly as stupid as people want to believe. So when shit like this happens we understandably get pissed because, surprise, many of us actually have been paying attention.
I have a lot of shot to say about Steve Jobs, but he knew what asthetics he wanted. He would loathe the current trend with phones having a camera bulge. Look at all the iPhones released under him, look at the back of them. If they had a camera it was flush with the back of the phone.
sure, but do you think Jobs be okay with a severely underpowered camera or super thick phone compared to the competition? Neither of those things happened under him either.
It's not that simple to blame Cook for everything that's different about iphones now. It was a lot easier to stick to rigid principles in the early days when the market was wide open and the tech rapidly maturing every year. They were making money hand over fist just picking off the low hanging fruit of smartphone evolution. They ran out of obvious upgrades pretty much when Cook took over and have shareholders to answer to. Hence more expensive phones, subscription services, and ads.
I tried to find something the other day and just because it's funny here are the results. The business is called X's Y but in osm it's stored as Xs, no apostrophe.
osmand: no results
magic earth: finds Xs, fails X's-- obviously humans recognize this as identical so the current search algo will never reliably find this store regardless of data entry
comaps: no results, when I added the full real name (X's Y, it showed me Ya terrace, Y with one letter swapped avenue, etc)
So you tell me, if it can't find a restaurant for which it has existing data, why is it the users' fault for not collecting more data?
That's comaps now that organic is persona non grata
I don't really know what happened but when your app only works with community support and the community hates you enough to hard fork the app, it's time to switch.
The only difference between these maps and their data is the effort by the community to update it. Google doesn't pay people to update places, they entice them with points and advertising. Google and Apple maps would be no different from OSM if no one updated them
You can complain about why google works better if you want to, but it still does.
Your response also ignores the fundamental problem: even when the data is in open street maps, the search still sucks. No, I didn't mean any of 20 things in Italy, I meant the Italian restaurant a mile away.
I may not be able to see the "nearest restaurants with reviews of 4 stars that are open now with no wait times" BUT I have been so many places where google or apple had not updated the map yet and only OSM got me where I was going.
So maybe it is fine to open a commercial map or local review site, or blog, or web page, that is not tracking you for store discovery, then put the address in OSM to actually get there.
And take the time to use street complete when you can, it is really easy and fills in things like hours open, accessibility, etc.
StreetComplete to help fill in the gaps. GeoShare to translate google/apple maps locations to geocoordinates for OSM, and then adding the place in OSMAnd if you login with the OpenStreetMaps editor plugin. This is how those of us who adopted Google Maps early added so much of their data..
Organic Maps is so fucking good, I keep so much of it downloaded as a backup for when I'm offline, because it just works. That said, I still use Google maps due to the reviews of businesses and traffic data when navigating normally, but it's good to know a great alternative is out there.
You might want to switch to CoMaps. Most developers fled there after the owners of Organic Maps showed shady behaviour regarding donations and the future of the project
Sadly, finding businesses and traffic data are 99% of the reason I open google maps. I have organic installed, but I've since found out that "I want to go somewhere I don't know the way to but have found out the street address some other way, and I don't care about the traffic in between" simply doesn't happen.
It happens for me when I'm offline and the stupid Google Maps downloads didn't work. I don't even bother with downloading Google Maps any more, I just use CoMaps instead.
Here in Cali Iāve noticed itās actually better. Google Maps has been ass for the last 4 years for me. Wrong data, it takes me randomly off the freeway only to loop my back and put me right back where I got off. It has completely wrong traffic data, and it has road closures it thinks are still open. When I travel around the bay for work I mostly use Apple Maps.
I experienced the same glitches that everyone else did when it first launched but itās been perfectly fine for years. My gfās android Google Maps will routinely have us make several turns just to end up on the same road we were already traveling on so navigation is done on my phone and the playlist on hers.
Yeah, the first time it happened on Google Maps I thought it was just an issue with like that small section of bridge/overpass, but then it did it again and I was just stuck in the same traffic but now even further behind. It was incredibly odd. By like the 4th time I was like āok, if I donāt stop using you then itās on me for being so frustrated.ā
Article also mentions targeting Books and a few other apps as well.
Anyone have a solid epub reader on iOS? I frequently use the Books app to read my epubs since I often find myself without my ereader and donāt want to use Kindle.
I use kobo because I have a kobo reader and you can import any epub into their app and it will work great. Otherwise I like Yomu, itās got a nice and clean interface.
On iOS you can install a system-wide DNS configuration profile for AdGuard without having to install any app.
It doesnāt deal with ads served up from the exact same API/domain as the content, but any source of ads that is drawn from a different domain can be blocked and usually is blocked.
About the only apps I still see ads in are YouTube, Pinterest, and Facebook. All apps that use third-party advertising feeds have those ads blocked.
Honestly, I use it all the time now since I plug in my phone to my car and it's right there.
It's fine. Sometimes I use Google Maps. It's also fine.
I actually like Apple's approach to describing when to turn. It'll say stuff like "go past this light and turn at the next" instead of vague shit like "in 1000 feet turn right." Bitch, I don't have a tape measure.
I think people who grip about Apple Maps as it is today probably just haven't used it and want to gripe for griping sake.
I actually do when I am using my car that doesn't have a smart system/android auto/carplay. The reason is that it will ping/vibrate my watch when I am getting close to a turn or action. That way I know something is coming up. Thats about the only time I use it.
Yes. That right there. I switched from Google Maps to Apple Maps and I like it much better. Hell, even the GPS doesnāt play catch up nearly like what Google Maps does. Speed limits are posted for like every street so I know it before I see a sign. Itās more aesthetically pleasing to me than Google Maps as well.
I had the OG Droid, did all the rooting and ROMing on my phones, and went up to the Samsung S8 until I switched. I donāt miss Android, but Iām not a power user either.
I donāt know if itās my phone or wifi, when home, but Apple Maps will often be incredibly slow, or just refuse to display tiles when I zoom in or out. Particularly if I change the zoom by quite a bit in one action. Itās very frustrating.
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discosnails@lemmy.wtf · 120 pts · 298d
If you're not paying for it, you are the product; except for with š and then it's both.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 19 pts · 297d
they did pay 1000$+ phones just to have ads on it.
garretble@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 297d
Just like every Android phone that comes pre-loaded with trash apps you have to delete.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 297d
i bought a min OP12R, i had delete a couple apps i dont use on it. A carrier issued phone has even worst bloat. I just disabled most of the google ones, like play, and WALLET because it kept activating tag (fare machine)on public transport, i had to do a work around since there wasnt an easy way to completely eliminate that.
Lastangel@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 294d
Only in the USA, I think. I'm in the UK and don't have 'trash apps'.
Unless you mean Facebook and YouTube, thinking about it, which yeah is annoying.
stoy@lemmy.zip · -38 pts · 298d
artyom@piefed.social · 57 pts · 298d
They didn't say literally anything about Android or Google...
stoy@lemmy.zip · -23 pts · 298d
discosnails@lemmy.wtf · 41 pts · 298d
Idk what you're talking about, I program my own OSs in assembly language and solder my own hardware from e-waste. Get gud normie.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 298d
Fair enough.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 298d
Open Street Maps doesn't do any of this bullshit.
Zorque@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 298d
Oh, well, if Google does it then it must be okay.
TheBat@lemmy.world · 111 pts · 298d
reddig33@lemmy.world · 90 pts · 298d
They did. Someone at the top has been ruining that experience lately.
zewm@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 298d
I switched from Google to Apple back in 2018 and the royal fucking up lately is making me start looking at how to go back.
Iām really disappointed with the direction and lack of quality from Apple these last few years.
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus · 38 pts · 298d
BangelaQuirkel@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 298d
2026 is the year of the Linux phone
Attacker94@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 298d
More like 2026 + 10, Linux phones are severely lagging behind, enough so that they are at least 10 years away from having enough adoption for banks and the like to recognize their existence, the annoying truth is that it cannot be mainstream until it is able to use these critical apps with no workarounds as "it works but isn't allowed" will be the death knell of any amount of mainstream appeal.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 298d
I'm so tired of hearing people cry about banking apps. If you've got a working web browser you'll survive.
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus · 5 pts · 298d
Attacker94@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 297d
How do you deal with 2fa? For capital one in particular, I don't believe there is an option not to use their app, and the other banks that I use are in the same boat or adamantly recommend to use their app.
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus · 6 pts · 298d
baatliwala@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 297d
It's amazing how Americans love poking their nose into everyone else's affairs yet can be so oblivious. For some people a phone is literally the only device they have, they can't do anything else.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 297d
[Citation needed]
The most common reason for mobile phone theft is to wipe it and sell it, or just dismantle it for parts.
No common thief is going to be trying to break into an iPhone's security system to get to someone's banking data.
Attacker94@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 297d
How do you deal with 2fa? For capital one in particular, I don't believe there is an option not to use their app, and the other banks that I use are in the same boat or adamantly recommend to use their app.
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 297d
I'm this close to getting a fucking TomTom. I need something that can do turn by turn navigation in a car, ideally through Android Auto, but nothing good goes on Android Auto anymore.
How long until we crack this protocol anyway so we can use Linux phones with Android Auto?
Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 297d
Same, I had been on android since the OG Droid and switched around the same time for similar reasons.
If Apple is going to charge premium prices just to splash ads on their products Iām moving on again.
zewm@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 297d
The ads donāt bother me as much as the low QA lately. I upgraded to iOS26 and itās the buggiest product ever. I have the newest iPhone pro/max and it should be able to handle it fine. Siri never works, apps crash, freeze, the interface is extremely ugly to look at (the liquid crap). Just overall it feels half assed.
WindyRebel@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 296d
Yeah, I have an iPhone 15 Pro and Safari is freezing or just not even allowing me to close windows until I restart the app sometimes. That or websites wonāt load and then I restart the app and try again and they load fine.
I havenāt tried turning it off yet, but my suspicion is the Liquid Glass and all the stuff it needs to do is taking priority.
stellargmite@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 298d
I switched in 2021. I havent noticed any fuckupery. Whats been happening ?
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 298d
You can name names, itās Tim Cook, Craig Federighi, Phil Schiller, and Greg Joswiak.
reddig33@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 298d
I think itās more likely just Tim Cook. The buck stops with him. Someone needs to say no to some of this stuff (liquid glass, yearly release schedules, etc.) and that someone should have been him.
418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 298d
I was so hopeful they might just skip one yearly release and focus on bug fixes and technical debt. But then they go and change the name of the version to match the calendar year, and now Iām convinced weāre never going to get a stable iOS again.
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treeko@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 298d
Fuck I just started using it because of how horribly shit google maps has become
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip · 28 pts · 298d
If you don't need traffic data, CoMaps (uses OpenStreet Map data).
If you do need traffic data (understandable) Magic Earth is what I use. It's unfortunately not fully open source, only the map data is from OSM, but I find the navigation good 95% of the time, sometimes you have to make your own judgement for if a route might have bad traffic. At least it's not Google or Apple, and no ads.
I don't do car play, so I have no idea about how that works.
I wish we had better alternatives
or that cars all exploded and we went to public transport and walkable citiesBakedCatboy@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 298d
Supposedly comaps has carplay support as of like 2 months ago, according to a page on their website
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 297d
Damn I need to try this
treeko@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 298d
Thanks for the suggestions! Iāll look into it
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 298d
I don't use maps often but what's been going wrong in Google maps? I know whatever Uber/Lyft was using was having a hard time keeping up with local changes (bridges being shut down for months would stay on every driver's directions), they'd switch to Google to get an accurate map
treeko@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 298d
Itās still accurate for directions, but search results and map viewing have gone to shit because of google accepting money to highlight certain businesses - taking up huge chunks of the map with their square icons
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 297d
I uninstalled it when it told me to turn left at the Wendyāsā¢ instead of a fucking street name. After I missed my turn and got to my destination late, I looked it up and the place it was talking about was visually obscured by another building so I couldnāt have possibly known where to turn. Fuck that noise.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 32 pts · 298d
I know this is my own personal experience, but diehard Apple fans in my circle have started to say, "Fuck Apple." I think they're PR and goodwill is finally running out.
ceenote@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 298d
The thing is, Apple getting worse is coinciding with everything else getting worse, too.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 298d
for real, fucking everything sucks now.
Soup@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 298d
Steve Jobs, for all his other problems, knew how to run a company and held to the idea that they needed to make good products. He kept the prices fairly low for what they were, and they even decreased over time for many of their products. He wouldnāt allow unfinished products to be released which is a big reason why I always laughed at Android people who claimed āfirstā with their buggy, shitty versions of the reliable thing Apple made a couple years later.
But then for some reason he let Tim Cook, who had been an idiot at Apple for a long time and Jobās knew it, take over. Since then prices have sky-rocketed and the company has started releasing stuff that just isnāt up to the standards they held in the past. He even took power away from the guy who had come up with Appleās iconic aesthetic.
Whether or not people want to admit, Apple made excellent products and the customers arenāt nearly as stupid as people want to believe. So when shit like this happens we understandably get pissed because, surprise, many of us actually have been paying attention.
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev · 19 pts · 298d
I have a lot of shot to say about Steve Jobs, but he knew what asthetics he wanted. He would loathe the current trend with phones having a camera bulge. Look at all the iPhones released under him, look at the back of them. If they had a camera it was flush with the back of the phone.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 298d
sure, but do you think Jobs be okay with a severely underpowered camera or super thick phone compared to the competition? Neither of those things happened under him either.
It's not that simple to blame Cook for everything that's different about iphones now. It was a lot easier to stick to rigid principles in the early days when the market was wide open and the tech rapidly maturing every year. They were making money hand over fist just picking off the low hanging fruit of smartphone evolution. They ran out of obvious upgrades pretty much when Cook took over and have shareholders to answer to. Hence more expensive phones, subscription services, and ads.
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev · 2 pts · 297d
Bruh, the first iPhone didn't have a camera
fodor@lemmy.zip · 27 pts · 298d
OpenStreetMap for the win, my peoples.
Routhinator@startrek.website · 10 pts · 297d
Specifically OSMAnd.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one · 7 pts · 297d
Works perfectly as long as you already know where you're going!
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 297d
And the local community keeps locations up to date
Seen big cities that are great in mapping every flower pot, but have restaurants and shops that don't exist for over half a decade
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one · 6 pts · 297d
Even when they are up to date the search blows.
I tried to find something the other day and just because it's funny here are the results. The business is called X's Y but in osm it's stored as Xs, no apostrophe.
So you tell me, if it can't find a restaurant for which it has existing data, why is it the users' fault for not collecting more data?
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 297d
For me it works perfectly. Try out Organic Maps or one of its forks then?
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one · 3 pts · 297d
That's comaps now that organic is persona non grata
I don't really know what happened but when your app only works with community support and the community hates you enough to hard fork the app, it's time to switch.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 297d
Might be worth looking deeper into it though, in why the forkers hate the dev.
Routhinator@startrek.website · 3 pts · 297d
The only difference between these maps and their data is the effort by the community to update it. Google doesn't pay people to update places, they entice them with points and advertising. Google and Apple maps would be no different from OSM if no one updated them
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 297d
sure. doesn't change the problem, though
(if more people used Street Complete, it would make the problem a lot better)
Routhinator@startrek.website · 4 pts · 297d
Google maps only ever knew where you were going because Ingress players and Google "local guides" filled in all the data for them.
Update the out of date data. Its not hard and the more people use it the more accurate the places data will be.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one · 2 pts · 297d
You can complain about why google works better if you want to, but it still does.
Your response also ignores the fundamental problem: even when the data is in open street maps, the search still sucks. No, I didn't mean any of 20 things in Italy, I meant the Italian restaurant a mile away.
Routhinator@startrek.website · 3 pts · 297d
I use OSMAnd and the search is a lot better, not sure what client you are using.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one · 1 pts · 297d
Oh I'm running osmand~ and comaps and magic earth.
And by running I mean I occasionally confirm its still not good enough yet
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 297d
It is a trade off though.
I may not be able to see the "nearest restaurants with reviews of 4 stars that are open now with no wait times" BUT I have been so many places where google or apple had not updated the map yet and only OSM got me where I was going.
So maybe it is fine to open a commercial map or local review site, or blog, or web page, that is not tracking you for store discovery, then put the address in OSM to actually get there.
And take the time to use street complete when you can, it is really easy and fills in things like hours open, accessibility, etc.
Routhinator@startrek.website · 1 pts · 297d
StreetComplete to help fill in the gaps. GeoShare to translate google/apple maps locations to geocoordinates for OSM, and then adding the place in OSMAnd if you login with the OpenStreetMaps editor plugin. This is how those of us who adopted Google Maps early added so much of their data..
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 297d
"What the fuck you gonna do? Use Android?!??! Fuck you and and be happy about it" - Tim Apple, probably
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 297d
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 296d
Kind of.
They're not in your face. But they make sure their sponsors show up on the maps with custom pins
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 297d
I don't know. Probably.
WindyRebel@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 296d
The answer youāre looking for is, āOf course it does!ā
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 297d
Sundar Pichai: "Huh, well I guess we'll just follow Tim Apple's lead and start injecting ads in google maps and anyone who uses google maps API too."
dev_null@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 297d
There are already ads in Google Maps, there is nothing for them to follow.
Yupa@ani.social · 1 pts · 296d
What? Where are they? Maybe it depends on the region...
arc99@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 296d
So much for the "Apple is all about privacy whereas Google monetizes you" schtick.
Krompus@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 297d
Everything is shitty! š¶
CAVOK@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 296d
OrganicMaps isn't.
RustyShackleford@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 298d
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 297d
Organic Maps or OsmAnd is out there, just saying.
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 296d
Wanting to mention CoMaps and that it was forked from Organic Maps.
The projects aren't very diverged yet so you can still migrate your pins with an easy export/import
Joelk111@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 296d
Organic Maps is so fucking good, I keep so much of it downloaded as a backup for when I'm offline, because it just works. That said, I still use Google maps due to the reviews of businesses and traffic data when navigating normally, but it's good to know a great alternative is out there.
mapu@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 296d
You might want to switch to CoMaps. Most developers fled there after the owners of Organic Maps showed shady behaviour regarding donations and the future of the project
Joelk111@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 296d
I'll check it out. Any links to articles on the shady behavior?
Edit: CoMaps is like Organic Maps but better, regardless of the development practices, neato.
mapu@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 296d
This is a good place to start reading :)
Joelk111@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 296d
Wow, interesting stuff. Huge thanks for the tip off about CoMaps.
Don_alForno@feddit.org · 2 pts · 296d
Sadly, finding businesses and traffic data are 99% of the reason I open google maps. I have organic installed, but I've since found out that "I want to go somewhere I don't know the way to but have found out the street address some other way, and I don't care about the traffic in between" simply doesn't happen.
Joelk111@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 296d
It happens for me when I'm offline and the stupid Google Maps downloads didn't work. I don't even bother with downloading Google Maps any more, I just use CoMaps instead.
VeryVito@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 296d
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 296d
Yes Organic Maps and CoMaps (its open community fork) both support Car Play
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 296d
OsmAnd does have a CarPlay option. Dunno about Organic Maps and its forks.
elgordino@fedia.io · 17 pts · 298d
Iām reportedly getting ready to move to CoMaps.
leaf@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 297d
I just need to contribute to a few more towns in Openstreetmap and Apple Maps is gone from my phone.
confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 298d
OK, so if I'm on Apple hardware, for now, what's the best alternative to "Apple Maps"?
Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 298d
OsmAnd Maps, Organic Maps, and Co Maps are all worth looking at.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 298d
https://www.comaps.app/
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 298d
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 297d
Between this and android phones with ads on lockscreens, I'm ready for someone to finally release a good Linux phone.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 296d
or at least something I can install on a Google pixel
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 296d
graphene with no play store.
_thisdot@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 296d
Aren't there privacy friendly OSes you can already install on your Google Pixel?
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 296d
yes
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 13 pts · 296d
Me: "What the fuck? I didnt tell it to take me to Starbucks."
Siri: TRY STARBUCKS NEW PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE NOW AVAILABLE FOR A LIMITED TIME
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 296d
It seems to me that advertising is the real secret cabal that is running the world.
orioler25@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 296d
"Secret cabal" as in capitalism and its imperatives sure, pretty out in the open though.
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 13 pts · 297d
stupid because people literally pay alot of money for Apple tech,but maybe greed got into them.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 297d
People actually use Apple Maps?
mean_bean279@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 297d
Here in Cali Iāve noticed itās actually better. Google Maps has been ass for the last 4 years for me. Wrong data, it takes me randomly off the freeway only to loop my back and put me right back where I got off. It has completely wrong traffic data, and it has road closures it thinks are still open. When I travel around the bay for work I mostly use Apple Maps.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 296d
I experienced the same glitches that everyone else did when it first launched but itās been perfectly fine for years. My gfās android Google Maps will routinely have us make several turns just to end up on the same road we were already traveling on so navigation is done on my phone and the playlist on hers.
mean_bean279@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 296d
Yeah, the first time it happened on Google Maps I thought it was just an issue with like that small section of bridge/overpass, but then it did it again and I was just stuck in the same traffic but now even further behind. It was incredibly odd. By like the 4th time I was like āok, if I donāt stop using you then itās on me for being so frustrated.ā
VeryVito@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 296d
airportline@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 296d
I do because it currently doesn't have ads
WindyRebel@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 296d
Switch a while ago from Google Maps. Itās pretty damn great.
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 296d
yes my ex does, why i dunno lol
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 298d
Article also mentions targeting Books and a few other apps as well.
Anyone have a solid epub reader on iOS? I frequently use the Books app to read my epubs since I often find myself without my ereader and donāt want to use Kindle.
cyborganism@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 298d
You're reading a book and suddenly as the main character reaches in their backpack, he pulls out a cold, dew covered bottle of CERVEZA CRISTAL!
JaymesRS@piefed.world · 7 pts · 298d
I use kobo because I have a kobo reader and you can import any epub into their app and it will work great. Otherwise I like Yomu, itās got a nice and clean interface.
TroublesomeTalker@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 298d
No complaints about Yomu.
Gnomie@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 298d
what do people think of Organic Maps?
Blackout@fedia.io · 18 pts · 298d
It's pretty good I just wish it had more ads
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 1 pts · 298d
Awesome! Also Magic Earth. And CalTopo, too!
rekabis@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 297d
On iOS you can install a system-wide DNS configuration profile for AdGuard without having to install any app.
It doesnāt deal with ads served up from the exact same API/domain as the content, but any source of ads that is drawn from a different domain can be blocked and usually is blocked.
About the only apps I still see ads in are YouTube, Pinterest, and Facebook. All apps that use third-party advertising feeds have those ads blocked.
dajoho@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 297d
rekabis@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 296d
Right. Like obtaining a controlling interest in Apple is just so easy to achieve. Now, where did I leave my random trillions?ā¦
Reygle@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 297d
cackles maniacally in GrapheneOS
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 296d
if pixel phones weren't so expensive id i get one just for graphene
sonofearth@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 298d
garretble@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 297d
Honestly, I use it all the time now since I plug in my phone to my car and it's right there.
It's fine. Sometimes I use Google Maps. It's also fine.
I actually like Apple's approach to describing when to turn. It'll say stuff like "go past this light and turn at the next" instead of vague shit like "in 1000 feet turn right." Bitch, I don't have a tape measure.
I think people who grip about Apple Maps as it is today probably just haven't used it and want to gripe for griping sake.
irish_link@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 297d
I actually do when I am using my car that doesn't have a smart system/android auto/carplay. The reason is that it will ping/vibrate my watch when I am getting close to a turn or action. That way I know something is coming up. Thats about the only time I use it.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one · 4 pts · 297d
LosersPeople deep in the apple ecosystem. There's a surprising number these days.SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 297d
Apparently the Google maps app on ios is very terrible
Friend of mine showed it to me on a quite recent phone and it's super stuttery and laggy when scrolling around
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one · 3 pts · 297d
That's kinda funny considering what garbage applemaps was when it launched. Google just had to not screw up and I guess they did.
WindyRebel@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 296d
Yes. That right there. I switched from Google Maps to Apple Maps and I like it much better. Hell, even the GPS doesnāt play catch up nearly like what Google Maps does. Speed limits are posted for like every street so I know it before I see a sign. Itās more aesthetically pleasing to me than Google Maps as well.
I had the OG Droid, did all the rooting and ROMing on my phones, and went up to the Samsung S8 until I switched. I donāt miss Android, but Iām not a power user either.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one · 0 pts · 296d
A little strange that you think Samsung makes Android phones.
WindyRebel@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 296d
Ooh. Ok, so can you elaborate on this?
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one · 2 pts · 296d
Samsung breaks so many things about android and makes them unequivocally worse that it's hard to call it android
sonofearth@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 297d
garretble@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 297d
This isn't my experience, and I had a iPhone 12 Pro up until a couple of weeks ago. Google Maps generally ran alright that I can remember.
On the newest phones it's really smooth, but those phones also have enough horsepower to make pretty much any app run smoothly.
peetabix@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 297d
Wow, so brave.
minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 297d
Courage.
realitista@lemmus.org · 5 pts · 298d
Thereby ensuring I never begin using it.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 298d
Still not serious about their maps eh.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 298d
you say that like google doesn't do this even worse.
tonytins@pawb.social · 4 pts · 298d
I still remember all those Apple Maps memes.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 298d
I'm sure that will really annoy all seven people that use it...
YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 298d
I donāt know if itās my phone or wifi, when home, but Apple Maps will often be incredibly slow, or just refuse to display tiles when I zoom in or out. Particularly if I change the zoom by quite a bit in one action. Itās very frustrating.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 298d
Join us at !saltycaramelapple@sh.itjust.works !
zewm@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 298d
People use Apple Maps? š¤
veeesix@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 298d
Itās come a long way to finally being good. This aināt your grandpaās orchard variety map.
zewm@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 298d
It still forces you to use yelp app for everything. Gonna be a no from me dawg.
veeesix@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 298d
Thatās probably my biggest gripe with the app right now. Fingers crossed that they decouple next year.
Cedar@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 298d
Well, I mean, it kinda is now.
sicjoke@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 298d
Yes. I find it easily as good as the alternatives.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 297d
It was miles ahead of the other one because it wasnāt full of stupid ads. That was its one feature. Was.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 297d
Depends on the ads though.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · -7 pts · 298d
Lmao
Edit: Apparently five people are upset about this lol