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Please go to Apple Maps and harass them mecilessly
Honestly - this is from a playbook used by every autocratic administration: “Take the attention away from the more important things”. Seen it in EU constantly: Hungary, Slovakia, Serbia, etc. So sure, report it, but be aware this is a charade.
Do it. Move to Linux.
The stunlock continues
Wrote App Store review, then deleted maps. Installed Organic Maps to replace.
Based. Organic maps is a great navigation app. I also like magic earth :)
Also, reporting that Trump Tower (either) should be renamed Mexico Tower feels pretty good.
I can't be the only one who feels like this is the absolute lowest priority of dumb shit to resist the regime over. It's just filler. Another thing he is doing to flood the zone. But one that really doesn't hurt anything. It's a distraction. Ignore it and focus on the actual damage he is doing.
Yah, it feels like someone tossing a ball behind a dog. "Look over there! Go get it!"
I get what you're saying but, as someone observing from outside, stuff like this is all I can do to resist.
Yeah, I mean it's just books those nazis are burning, it doesn't hurt anything, no need to discuss it. /s
US fascists are fucking rewriting the world map and eradicating historical name, I consider it actual damage.
Actual book burning is the scientific data and articles being purged and saved (for now) by the Internet archive
~~lol, the iOS app won’t let me submit a ‘name is wrong’ report.~~
I’m dumb
It won’t let you send until you actually change the name lol
Ah that was not immediately apparent lol I’m silly
You should abandon Apple for Linux anyways. Apple doesn't care about you, your privacy, or anything but them making more money, from you. This has been proven time and time again by evidence and whistleblowers.
Shout out to the menial workers at Apple Maps who are going to have a crap day at work tomorrow because of the thing their boss made them do, so they don't get fired and replaced by someone else who would do it.
It says my report is “in review” and I’ll be notified when they review it.
I wonder how that will go, and how fast.
I assume they have mechanisms to just push mass reports into a black hole. Or similar.
Don't worry. They can send the reports to /dev/null where they will be read by Tim Apple himself when he checks it.
That’s odd; my Apple Maps says “Gulf of Mexico” and searching for “Gulf of America” shows 0 results.
Unlike Google Maps/Earth….
You have to access it from a US IP address to get the new name.
I just sent one in to Google Maps. Clearly it must be a bug. No such place exists
I'm going to start calling it the United States of America of Mexico and sometimes Canada.
I use Naziland
United States of Amerixco
Mexico Jr.
A waste of our time for sure, but I did it as well.
Its only for US users, no worry ;) hehe
I don't really know how to feel about this.
Was it decreed by an absolute narcissist for no reason other than the kind of blatant arrogance Americans are notorious for? Absolutely.
Was it also completely legal? As far as I can tell. It's not really these companies' place to resist map name changes, it's the citizens' and our representatives'.
Does it have anything at all to do with fascism? No.
At the same time it's the map's job to describe the world. Even for something like nation states where there's an official name, the map uses the common name. Our maps say France, not French Republic.
Changing the displayed name for a body of water shared by several nations doesn't make much sense, especially when the common name has yet to follow.
At least that's from the perspective of one of the goals the map ostensibly wants to serve.
fascism is when i don’t like something, right?
isn't it best when we water down terms to meaninglessness? /s
