Use CoMaps folks. FOSS, offline, and supports privacy (which is why it is an offshoot of Organic Maps)
What is wrong with organic maps?
Organic Maps itself is fine (which is what CoMaps is based from), the issue is the shareholders making money and not beimg transparent with the revenue.
From CoMaps themselves
CoMaps started to address the concerns and dissatisfaction within the Organic Maps community regarding governance, transparency, and the potential for shareholder profit at the expense of the community. The goal is to build a truly community-driven, transparent, and not-for-profit navigation app.
Great info, thank you!
I like my maps with GMOs
Traffic calculation?
MapQuest app works perfectly fine. Just switched easy as pie.
Obligatory mention of CoMaps. Open source, as free, etc.
And same maps because they both use open street maps.
Apple gave the president a gold iPhone. Surprised?
This is just for Americans. From Americans. Americans are complaining. They are literally allowed to vote against this kind of behaviour.
On the Google article it was Google’s fault, on the Apple article it’s Apple’s fault. These are American companies run by American billionaires following American rules.
I feel like maybe the problem here is not Lake America, but America
These are American companies run by American billionaires following American rules.
No, they’re not “American rules,” and they’re under zero obligation to comply
Epstein
Please start by understanding that corporations have more power in the US than voters.
Yeah please read into the oil and gas industry. They covered up leaded gasoline.
Which federal or state law in the US commands them to rename Lake Ontario again? Please elaborate.
I suspect they use the official data source for place names for the US. Changing that would be extra work
I think you skipped past the whole “billionaires” part in your hurry to blame an entire country. This is just more class warfare
Way to fully slip Trump’s tiny penis into your mouth, John. Good start to your legacy.
End your legacy more like; he’s been at Apple for a bloody long time
I meant legacy as CEO. But yeah, he seemed competent. Now he seems like all the rest of them – spineless.
I mean, maybe that decision wasn’t really his? Sounds like it could’ve been Tim Apple’s last minute order to do everything his majesty world leader supreme wants.
The article isn’t clear on that, I wouldn’t write off Johnny just yet.
He’s the CEO now. It makes no difference what Cook may or may not have done in his final days.
Ternus is allowing this to happen or he directed it to happen. Either way, he’s spineless because he won’t tell Trump to fuck off. If he changes course in the near future, then my opinion will change. But they kept the stupid name change of the gulf, they’ll likely keep this as well.
And to the people who would say “well what choice does he have?” That’s a form of appeasement. And I seem to remember some kind of history where that didn’t work out too well for business and government appeasing a dictator.
Eh, his calculus was likely the following:
- Trump has in the past threatened economic or financial penalties over minor, and major, disagreements
- Trump is in his last term, so he likely isn’t concerned with the political, legal, etc. ramifications of his actions
- Apple, as a company, still manufactures the majority of its product lines outside the US
- Trump is still trying to use tariffs in the US to manipulate markets and force business actions
- Either I capitulate and save Apple from potentially billions in fiscal pain and / or years of legal representation to fight said pain, or make this change and avoid all of it
- The cost of this capitulation is mostly a PR / company image issue + plus dev time to implement the change, versus a very real monetary loss
I don’t agree with his decision, but given the options available I do agree trying to keep the peace with the vindictive, unstable world leader of Apple’s largest market is in their best interest.
Like a Vienna sausage minus the European class.
I hope they get inundated with “reports” of an incorrect name. I mean they’ll ignore them but still…
They really seem to want to shake me out as a customer. The union busting, the trump asslicking, and now this.
Well, happy to oblige. Already replaced my macbook air with a pallet unit lifebook, and have my sight on the new framework laptops for the trackpad haptics and general principle of serviceability, even at the premium. I was an apple customer, I was always willing to pay for the premium to get a more consistent, robust quality experience. Framework really saw the writing on the wall, and I love it. Finally there are starting to be actually valid options for running Linux with the qol of apple hardware besides asahi.
On phone frontier I have zero clue where to go, but this is really just sealing the deal of me dropping apple there too whenever this one breaks. Motorola seems promising though, we’ll see…
Man I love my Fairphone. I think it’s worth considering based on what I read of your ethics and tech proficiency
Yeah that’s a big one on the list definitely, thanks!
Same. I was feeling them out for the next gen, seeing if they were going to stick to this “privacy” tagline they keep banging on about but this isn’t a good sign.
Ive got a Motorola Edge 2022 and the phone in general I have no gripes with. The battery could be a lot better with this model. Looking forward to new phone with Graphene if they actually do that right.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
I’ve been using OsmAnd (uses OpenStreetMaps) on my iPhone and it’s been pretty great. Uninstalled Apple Maps so I don’t have to deal with this bullshit.
I’m always for more OSM usage especially as a (casual) OSM mapper but you’re a rube.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1206310
Why are they a rube?
Per the link in your screenshot OSM is following the standard of using the GNIS official name, while also keeping the displayed name as the common name until and if common usage on both sides of the border begins to reflect the official name in GNIS.
Precedent from the Gulf of Mexico/“Gulf of America” discussion as well as accepted OSM convention would suggest that once GNIS is updated (which it appears it is already),
official_name:en-US=*should be added/changed toLake America, butname=*left as is unless and until common usage on the ground on both sides of the border shifts to prefer the “Lake America” name (which seems very unlikely).Note: emphasis is mine
I think you should look up the definition of “rube”.
John Appleseedless
John Crabapple
I mean, that was kinda inevitable to be honest. Apple went with Gulf of America, now they’re going with Lake America. If Trump decided to rename Canada into America+ they’d probably go with it as well.
I’m much more interested in what having a hardware guy as their CEO will do to their products. Obviously he’s just as much of an AI sheep as anyone else in Silicon Valley right now but maybe at least we’ll get some interesting new hardware as well?
Eh. It should just keep its original name.
The whole thing kinda reminds me of Uluru, that still officially has both names… What did native americans call the Gulf of Mexico?
Surprise! The same company who bribed Trump with a bar of fucking gold. Fuck all big tech in the USA. They are a danger to humanity.
That spineless fucker. John apple is already fucking it up
They lost their mojo when Steve Apple passed away.
100%
The president has these companies hostage in terms of trade rules. They appease him or they lose out, and considering the state of big tech, they need friends, because the AI bubble has drained their supply chains of resources.
The thing is, Apple was the exception in terms of the “AI” circlejerkery. Not trying to fanboi for them - simply pointing out that they are nowhere near the proportional outlay that the kool-aid drinkers are, in terms of ML spend.
That’s probably about to change with their new CEO too:
“It’s becoming clear that AI is not a fad, is not something that will go away in the next two or three years,” said Jeronimo. “It’s something that will dictate the future of most tech companies and indeed all companies.”
He reckons AI could be “the most consequential technology” for Apple because it could either help it maintain its lofty position or create a set of daunting challenges.
https://www.dw.com/en/can-new-apple-ceo-john-ternus-fix-the-tech-giants-ai-woes/a-78575898
It’s pretty likely that AI was the reason why Apple is changing CEOs in the first place, because they have been getting criticized for not being as hopelessly stupid about it as other tech companies are.
Nah, I don’t think that’s it. Cook is 65, and retirement (or semi-retirement) is appropriate for his age.
Termus is a hardware guy, and if AI is going to play a part in Apple’s long-term plan (and I agree that it will,) it’s going to skew heavily on-device. I don’t think we see any big AI changes from Apple just because Ternus is now CEO.
Also, Apple was kinda dull under Cook.
Which is a weird thing to say when you have big swings like the Vision Pro. But the phones pads and watches really played it safe.
Totally agree and why I’m cautiously optimistic about Ternus.
Dull but extremely profitable and successful as a company. Maybe their products are boring and there were a few flops along the way (HomePod, Vision Pro) but the transition to the M chips seems to have been successful and iPhone is still 21% of market share of the smart phone market.
Let’s see how the floppy phone is received when it comes out in a few days.
Yeah exactly, local AI is the long term future. Open weight models running on your desk are already good enough for a lot of tasks, and quickly getting better.
Apple are in a very good position here and don’t really need to do all that much other than continue to iterate on their existing hardware.
Compare that to Anthropic, OpenAI who must spend insane amounts to host their closed weight models, which seem to be unprofitable at any prices people are actually prepared to pay. As local AI improves these companies have no other business to fall back on. I know which company I’d rather be CEO of right now.
BS is all that is driving hardware sales at the moment. Computers have been fit-for-purpose for the last 10 years.
If people don’t submit to the AI BS, they won’t need to upgrade their computers.
The only way to force people to upgrade their computers is forced obsolescence; which requires the hardware to have some sort of remote kill switch, like a TPM.
This is also why open source OSs are being criminalised; if you can run Linux on an old MacBook or Surface Pro 4, there is no incentive to buy a new computer.
which requires the hardware to have some sort of remote kill switch, like a TPM.
Okay I’m curious now, what’s the mechanism of killing hardware via TPM?
I guess @Salvo might have been referring to the possibility of subverting “trusted” platform modules into treacherous ones.
Where is running Linux being criminalized? I dual boot my MacBook Pro with Linux just fine.
Fair, he was due to retire.
But at the very least, there’s a good chance that Apple will start trying to
shoehornintegrate AI in a lot of places. How much and where remains to be seen. Especially as a new CEO, there will be a lot of pressure to respond to all the criticism they’ve been receiving about their approach to AI.
They couldn’t figure it out and their AI dep has been in shambles. Apple is/were not ‘good’ in any sense of the word. There are docs that describes why apple didn’t get on the AI train, and they were NOT trying deliberately to fight back against AI - in any way…
Leave out the AI parts and you’re right. People just don’t realize that Trump will make it very hard to do business in the US if you don’t follow his requests.
To the level that should be (and in many cases are but haven’t yet been challenged successfully in court) illegal for the president to do, for many reasons.
Yeah, the poor mistreated crapple Corp are SO good and ONLY wewil Drump is what suddenly makes them a huge international evil turd !
I mean they obviously have no fanbase/money/power, so they cannot push back in any way, and are only now being ‘forced’ to be an evil fascist corp…
So… lets all defend/protect the good Apple corp against the orange oligarch puppet, that is the ONLY reason they just now turned evil…
…Okay then…
The corpos like it that way. It’s so much easier to make a well-placed ‘donation’ than have to work around all those annoying laws and regulations.
