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Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by amazingman on Friday June 29, 2018 @04:36PM (#17427667)
At this point maps are a platform hygiene factor. If you're going to be Apple, you can't rely on Google or any other 3rd party vendor for what is seen by users as a basic feature.
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Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by yellowapple on Friday June 29, 2018 @04:41PM (#17427695)
I think part of the issue among users is that "rely[ing] on Google" was (and probably still is) a perfectly acceptable approach that already worked reasonably well until Apple inexplicably replaced it with Maps.
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Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by sjwright on Friday June 29, 2018 @10:22PM (#17429162)
Their reasons for replacing it were entirely explicable. Go look it up.
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