Because of course there’s going to be ads. The enshittification of all things continues.
Once this ads genie is out of the bottle, Apple is on the road to making their experience as shitty as Google does. I hate this so much.
If you're an Apple Maps user looking for an alternative, there's a number of apps that display the OpenStreetMap data, which is a free and open map (which you can contribute to, it's kind of like wikipedia for maps). I use one called Organic Maps, but there are others as well.
They should, at least, not show ads for Apple One subscribers. This pisses me off.
Ads in the App Store don’t bother me. Purchasing things is part of it and I rarely use it. But, ads in utilities that I use every day is too far. If they put ads like these in Music, Safari, Mail, etc., they’ll definitely lose even some die-hard Apple users.
Greedy greedy greedy.
As a long time Apple device user...Apple can fuck right off.
I'm ready! I installed CoMaps.
I’d almost rather use a paper map book than get face slapped by ads in a smartphone navigation app.
gulf of america much? yeah, fuck off.
Great stuff. Stopped using US maps though :/(
I kinda figure most of these price hikes exist to subsidize the hardware side of things. There isn't too much longer they can go without raising the prices on their hardware. I actually bought the base model of their newer models (never bought an iphone before) because I figure this to be one of the last windows to get that much phone at a semi-decent price.
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