Even though i agree but the majority of the population is looking for convenience
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Apple Maps Now Allows Businesses to Customize Their Listings
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Not sure I’d agree that you can reach that conclusion but maybe you’re right. Let’s see what Maps looks like in 3 years. I’m fine with some ads if done correctly.
Yea if they have own site to order with their own drivers, I definitely prefer that. But I don't find much outside chinese and pizza
I don't like this. I rather take a simpler, clutter-free maps experience over an app that intends to do it all. Apple Maps is still quite rusty on some aspects, I would appreciate Apple investing more on usability outside of the USA and navigation precision rather than this.
I do agree with business integration and redirects though. I'll pass my final judgement once it comes out.
I do agree with business integration and redirects though. I'll pass my final judgement once it comes out.
The apps are good for restaurant discovery, I'll give them that. But once you find a place you like, you should order directly from them.
Very nice! Apple Maps now only misses a browser, a dock bar, and a separated operating system
It's not free, you paid a lot of money for that iPhone.
Yeah i stopped using waze because i don't actually need to know where EVERY Dunkin' Donuts is located in Massachusetts.
now that you're saying it...Are you planning on having a virtual girlfriend via the upcoming Apple AR/VR headset?
They need to compete with Ticketmaster and get them out of their monopoly.
not sure that I like this, maps to me is when I want to get a general overview of an area and directions to a certain place. Not interested in a subset of businesses who pay $$ to be "featured", but then again, maybe I'm old school ...
and yes, I know Google maps does the same thing and I do not like it.
and yes, I know Google maps does the same thing and I do not like it.
Could be useful, but would have to store or automatically link to my loyalty points programs, otherwise I'll have to stick to using each companies' specific app. Will wait and see how it's implemented.
I agree more places should just handle it themselves, but if they do use these platforms, they pay 20%, 30%, even more right off the top of every order they take through that company. Here in NYC, they finally put a legal price cap, and that cap is STILL 20%! I'm sure they see increased business off the apps, but if all their profit gets skimmed off by some ****head tech company, what's the point of doing more business?
These days, short of completely not using a smartphone, you could get them special Android phones that are completely without Google's influence. However, you'd have to not use Google Play, amongst other things.
They could add some frames in the interface with some embed kinda like how Yelp is handled now. Even though I personally find Yelp to be pointless in Maps past the star rating number. Most of the photos from Yelp are marketing images instead of user-submitted. Maps often only shows three reviews, which are usually outdated. I'd rather see an absence of reviews than someone's irrelevant 2yo post about covid guidelines that don't exist now.
I think Yelp is an evil company and shouldn't be in Maps to begin with, but I'm likely in the minority here. I have enjoyed Apple's basic thumbs -up and -down system.
I hate Waze because it is still a distraction even if you are going 0mph but are still in traffic
Never used Apple Ratings much. Can you comment? Otherwise only up down is useless to me. Does down mean the server wasn't up to you speed for refills, or the food was poor, or vermin in the restaurant?
I've attached an example of how it looks. You can't comment, but there's thumbs for various categories. Some places have only "Overall", like if they don't serve food etc. In addition to thumb feedback, you can leave a category neutral.
I think the binary review system is better personally, a lot of Yelp is between 1 and 5 star from what I've seen. The middle reviews are wishy-washy, either you recommend the place or don't. It doesn't have the minutia of an actual comment, but I wouldn't recommend a restaurant based on poor food or vermin. Apple may add comments at some point though, who knows their roadmap (pun intended) for reviews in Maps.
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Business Connect lets business owners manage their business profile in Apple Maps. This feature has been sorely lacking until today. I just signed up and the service is awesome! This is not about ads or spam. It's about managing business locations in Maps. And it's done way better than Google's setup. Very clean and easy to use.
So many here think that this is about Ad management in Maps. It's NOT. Business Connect is about business location management in Maps. Until today, (to my knowledge) there was no easy way for business owners to directly manage their own business location profile. The information presented was based on scraping and community submissions. Now, business owners have direct control over their locations. And the service is really well designed!
Not ads, but I'm sure that ads will become part of this in a future release.
The reason restaurants have to upcharge is because DD, GH, UE, etc all charge the restaurants high fees to use/be on the services.
Food delivery apps eat away at restaurants with fees
Third-party food delivery apps such as Doordash, Uber Eats, and GrubHub charge restaurants hefty fees, leaving these apps and restaurants as uneasy partners. Customer convenience comes at the expense of restaurants and restaurant workers losing out on money. Many customers turned to food...
scotscoop.com
Third-party food delivery apps such as Doordash, Uber Eats, and GrubHub charge restaurants hefty fees, leaving these apps and restaurants as uneasy partners. Customer convenience comes at the expense of restaurants and restaurant workers losing out on money.
Restaurants might actually lose money through Grubhub and similar services
(BUSINESS MARKETING) Restaurant owners are asking themselves if third-party food delivery apps are nothing more than a good, old-fashioned shakedown.
theamericangenius.com
GrubHub, DoorDash, Postmates, UberEats all charge eateries a commission between 15%-30% to even work with them. This is for the most basic level of service. When GrubHub, for example, wants to stimulate more sales, they may offer a deal to consumers. This could be a dollar amount or percentage off of a customer’s order or free delivery.
Everybody loves a deal, so these promotions are effective. They drive more sales, yay. The restaurants, however, incur the full cost of the promotion. You would imagine GrubHub would share that cost, but no, they don’t. If that weren’t unscrupulous enough, GrubHub then charges the business the commission on the full, not discounted, price of the order. Unctuous, right?
For a mom-and-pop food truck or restaurant, the commissions and fees soon eat away at the already small profit margins restaurants usually have.
Then there's this B.S.
But wait, there’s more! Another nasty, duplicitous practice GrubHub (specifically GrubHub) has implemented, with Yelp’s help, is to hijack the restaurant’s phone number on Yelp. This means if you look up your favorite restaurant on Yelp, and call in an order from the Yelp platform, your call will actually go to GrubHub instead. And get this–they charge the restaurant even if you pick up the order yourself, not only for delivery.
These third-party companies have even started buying up domain names similar to the restaurants to further fool patrons into ordering through them. They also have added restaurants to their platforms, even if the restaurants haven’t agreed to work with them. They seem willing to do anything to get a cut of restaurants’ hard earned dough (and ours).
