• Cyborganism
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    8 months ago

    Ugh. Fuck Google. I wish there were more companies investing in open street maps just to make it the best map software out there. Then we wouldn’t have to rely on a corporation like Google that drops apps, services and features every year.

    Not to mention all the tracking and privacy stuff.

    • @Substance_P@lemmy.world
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      198 months ago

      Not sure why you got all the down votes here, as an educated society, wouldn’t we want more competition and less monopoly as the world relies on this tech every day?

      • @evo@sh.itjust.works
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        98 months ago

        Probably because wishing there were more alternatives to Google Maps has absolutely nothing to do with Porsche adopting Android Auto.

      • Phanatik
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        58 months ago

        As much as people like to crow on and on about having choices, they don’t actually like making choices. It’s been the same with Linux, there’s so much you can configure and change that you have to be proactive with your choices. It’s why people gravitate to Apple simple interface where every decision has been made for you and the answer to wanting to change how the system works is met with “go fuck yourself”.

          • @fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world
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            48 months ago

            Open source doesn’t mean they won’t spy on you.

            Everything on the apps side could be peachy, but what the app requests from the server tells them everything they need to know.

            • Eager Eagle
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              8 months ago

              no - the dataset is open. You can self-host it and use it in your own app.

      • @Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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        68 months ago

        You should have mentioned that’s a project from the Linux foundation, although Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom are controlling it