Man Creates Traffic Jams By Wheeling Around 99 Cell Phones In A Trailer (2020)

Re:Man Creates Traffic Jams By Wheeling Around 99 Cell Phone... by legitster on Monday December 20, 2021 @07:46PM (#29632446)

I believe Google uses this same functionality when it gives you an estimate of how "busy" certain restaurants are. And anecdotally, it can feel like their estimates underestimate the crowds at expensive places were most people have iPhones and overestimate the crowds at cheap places where Android user propagate.

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Re:Man Creates Traffic Jams By Wheeling Around 99 Cell Phone... by 28uwedj on Monday December 20, 2021 @08:24PM (#29632715)

Because iphones dont have google maps installed at all.

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Re:Man Creates Traffic Jams By Wheeling Around 99 Cell Phone... by cardiffspaceman on Monday December 20, 2021 @08:31PM (#29632760)

Mine has Google Maps because my 1st gen iPad had it, and so I would have had to take action to not end up with two maps apps. iOS maps were not well regarded at first, in case you don't remember that far back.

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Re:Man Creates Traffic Jams By Wheeling Around 99 Cell Phone... by matt-attack on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @11:01AM (#29638637)

I was the same. But for several years now I use IOS maps exclusively and have long since deleted Google Maps.

It feels great having google completely out of my life.

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Re:Man Creates Traffic Jams By Wheeling Around 99 Cell Phone... by ashwagary on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @06:16PM (#29643308)

Sounds like a terrible attack for a business to experience, if most of their traffic is Android/gmap users

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