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Please go to Apple Maps and harass them mecilessly

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[–] FireTower@lemmy.world 25 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 10 hours ago

That's why they made Apple intelligence so minded numbingly stupid. Job security. If it were capable Apple management would have replaced everyone.

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis 15 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Eh, out of all my own traffic I’ve MITM’d it’s mostly been third-party SDKs in apps doing creepy shit.

Down to hate on Gulf of America but when it comes to privacy it’s debatable.

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 24 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

That’s odd; my Apple Maps says “Gulf of Mexico” and searching for “Gulf of America” shows 0 results.

Unlike Google Maps/Earth….

[–] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

Just wait, they said they would enable it globally soon enough.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

You have to access it from a US IP address to get the new name.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Irrelevant: Scared me for a sec, thought I had an IP leak as I VPN to Switzerland but remembered I explicitly allowed Maps to be routed through a US VPN.

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] yonder@sh.itjust.works 15 points 15 hours ago

Don't worry. They can send the reports to /dev/null where they will be read by Tim Apple himself when he checks it.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 9 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

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.

[–] ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz 3 points 13 hours ago

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.

[–] jdeath@lemm.ee -4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

fascism is when i don’t like something, right?

isn't it best when we water down terms to meaninglessness? /s

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 15 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

I'm going to start calling it the United States of America of Mexico and sometimes Canada.

[–] bufalo1973@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago

The full name of Mexico is "Mexican United States". Not joking.

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] Ste41th@lemmy.ml 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago
[–] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 15 points 18 hours ago

A waste of our time for sure, but I did it as well.

[–] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

I just sent one in to Google Maps. Clearly it must be a bug. No such place exists

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Its only for US users, no worry ;) hehe

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