I just found out that the latest upgrade of magic earth no longer works in the car, it now requires a subscription. Still works on the phone, but having it in the car display is just better.
So is there an alternative that does what waze/magicearth does that you know of? I'm thinking about the real time traffic and hazards update mostly.
11 Comments
woelkchen@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 245d
I think that's wrong. I only see a one-time payment on https://www.magicearth.com/pricing .1 year fee of 6 Euro, then 15:That said, they might shoot themselves in the foot with this. For those who don't know: The company's business model is or used to be to sell their services to car infotainment and similar industries. The free version for phones was their way to gather a big user base that contributes traffic and incident data.
Maybe their industry customer base collapsed. I don't know but with this move there is serious risk they're chasing away users and therefore the quality of the data decreases.
CAVOK@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 245d
They're chasing me away. I'm not interested in paying but I was willing to contribute data in exchange for using it. That's the deal most people have with Google anyway.
woelkchen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 244d
Luckily I could disable auto updates in time.
RandomUser@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 245d
Well they've lost me as a user. Shame as I really liked it.
SARGE@startrek.website · 4 pts · 245d
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 6 pts · 245d
No FOSS one afaik. There's some other freemium apps listed on alternativeto.net
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 245d
https://www.comaps.app/
CAVOK@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 245d
Good app, but it doesn't have live traffic data I'm afraid.
crank0271@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 245d
I had just signed up via the mobile app a couple weeks ago for the free trial, renewing at $1/year thereafter. They sent several notifications (or emails, can't remember) about the price going up soon. Hopefully the old pricing will be honored unless cancelled.
I had been looking for a privacy-respecting alternative to Google Maps / Apple Maps that has real time traffic info. Hopefully, as @woelkchen@lemmy.world suggested, the quality of that data doesn't degrade too much due to chasing away users / their data sources.
crank0271@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 243d
Just wanted to follow up on this. It shows I was billed $1 today but next year it will renew at $20/year. I'm going to contact them to confirm, and I'm not against paying $1.66/month for a privacy-respecting navigation app with real time traffic info, but the ol' switcheroo is a little much for me.
mech@feddit.org · 2 pts · 244d
Requiring a subscription for a service that costs money to provide is NOT enshittification.
You either have to pay with your wallet or your data.
CAVOK@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 244d
They took away functionality and locked it behind a subscription. How is that not enshittification?
I was providing data. Now I'm not.