Quite strange some of the folks on here moaning about stolen lands, but they’re also the first people to call for a borderless world…
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Apple Adopting 'Gulf of America' Naming for Apple Maps
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To make everybody happy, let’s call it the gulf of the Americas we have south and north, divided by the Gulf .
Apple is in the process of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and changes are already being made to the Apple Maps app. When searching in the Maps app for Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico name is shown or the name is blank, but tapping into the area shows the "Gulf of America" wording.
According to Bloomberg, Apple is rolling out the Maps change in the United States today, so the name should shift for most U.S. users in the near future. Apple plans to change the name for all users globally in the future.
Google this week also made good on its promise to adopt the new naming, and "Gulf of America" is now visible in both Google Maps and Waze.
Google and Apple use data from the U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) when naming world locations, and GNIS updated its database with the "Gulf of America" name change this week.
Google has explained that Maps users in the United States will see "Gulf of America" instead of "Gulf of Mexico," while users in Mexico will continue to see Gulf of Mexico. In the rest of the world, the name for the body of water between Mexico and Florida will continue to be named Gulf of Mexico, but Gulf of America is shown in parentheses below. Apple might adopt similar changes outside of the United States.
When U.S. President Donald Trump took office on January 20, one of his first orders was changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Other countries do not refer to the area as the Gulf of America and are not required to accept the U.S. name.
Trump also said that Alaskan mountain Denali was being renamed to Mt. McKinley, but Google Maps and Apple Maps have not yet made that change.
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I’ve lived down here on the Gulf coast for over two decades…
No one down here is ever going to call it Gulf of America.
This is beyond f’in stupid.
Thank your lucky stars it doesn’t read Gulf of Covfefe.
So much great stuff happening. Every day gets better and better.
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Tim seem to have forgotten that Apple's image needs to survive longer than these next four years.
Tim is 64 years old now and may resign within those four years.
What else will he be remembered for, other than growing the company and making obscene amounts of money?
Can’t afford a blemish on his record on that homestretch, brought by some silly Trump tariffs or something.
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"America" has an *accepted* meaning to refer to the USA. "Americans" has an accepted meaning to refer to citizens of the USA.
Canadians and Mexicans are rightfully North Americans, but not Americans in the accepted way. I'm Canadian and don't you dare call me an American! hahaha
Trump is indeed referring to the USA whenever he says America, including this name change.
Even Rome fell. So will the US, one day. It may be a great nation in many senses, but it's not the greatest in every, and is definitely not invincible.
Victimhood? That's what you call provably having the "guns" of the DOJ turned straight at you & weaponized? That's what you call provably having outlets such as Facebook/Twitter et al consoring speech at the behest of the Biden White House? That's what you call provably having businesses such as The Daily Wire's web traffic plummet & other business bankrupted because the State Department was actively using & engaging with tech designed to censor businesses with conservative-leaning opinions?
Yes I do remember VERY WELL all of that.
Regarding your stolen land canard, are you going to also make such a claim against the Indians who for centuries were "stealing" the land of other Indian tribes or does this only apply to others
There is a wide gulf between Tim Cook's words (supporting leftism) and his actions (supporting neo-fascism).
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It's already obviously a heavily controlled marketing facade.
I want to know what is under it, because it's looking like something nasty.
It’s mind blowing that an agency is created to find this stuff, then they start announcing what they’ve found, and people just say “where’s the proof?” Do you have proof that they’re lying? If there is any possibility this stuff is true, we should be concerned. We aren’t even a month in.
Now that would actually be a good idea if the whole thing made any sense at all. Leave it like it is and has been. Has it really upset any of you Patriots that much? As an earlier poster said, this is just a distraction. I can’t believe so many fall for it..
Tim will be remembered for destroying Job’s legacy and transforming an innovative and exciting company in a boring one who just produces uninspired services and disappointing flops like Vision Pro or HomePod.
On the basis I am actually an expert in the domain of one of the things that they have found "proof" on and it is being described in the same terminology as a LSD tripping seer staring into monkey faeces spread on a wall and trying to extract meaning from it.
The biggest problem is that most people have literally no knowledge whatsoever or critical thinking ability or even the ability to define anything as arbitrary as proof of anything. Yet they take the abstract concept of stating that "we have proof" over what the definition of the proof is.
It is about as valid as me saying "I have proof the moon is made of chocolate"
They have to prove that they have proof with citable evidence and start legal proceedings. Instead we have arbitrary undocumented statement proof and circumvention of the courts.
If that is acceptable in any society, good luck and enjoy the gulag.
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One thing this does show is that America needs to fund the Department of Education not close it down.
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We're speaking English. It's not surprising that "America", by default, refers to English/British America (which is now the USA). It's much more common for the term to refer to the continent in Spanish, then in English.
Good point. The names are more than just localized spelling, they have old but common origins. They are as such not different in the same way the Gulf of Mexico and America differ.