You have been tricked. My phone cost $129. It did take a couple hours to delete all the crapware and disable google's "assistants". but it's a nice simple phone now.
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Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App
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Money talks. Internet money shouts so loud you can hear it in outer space!
Also the fact that, if anything, apple’s old products under him had more advertising than their current ones do.
When you first booted up any iPod, iPhone or iPad made before 2011, what was the first thing you saw? The iTunes logo. That’s advertising.
When you were absolutely forced, not optionally given the choice, but forced, to download iTunes to set up your device? What was that? Advertising.
When you opened up iTunes, and were met with the store, with whatever albums singles and artists apples was being paid to feature that week, what was that? Advertising.
Not to mention all of the extra stuff you were encouraged to purchase at the time to get access to basic features.
Easy to forget, but, Find My iPhone, for the first two years of its existence, required a $99 mobile Me subscription service.
Contact synchronization required a $99 mobile Me subscription service.
These days, we don’t even think about this stuff.
iLife and iWork and all of Apple‘s professional applications had to be re-purchased every year to get the latest versions.
So forgive me if some paid search results in Maps doesn’t exactly get me all worked up, Apple devices come with pretty much anything and everything you could ask for out of the box for no extra charge, and what’s being described here seems like it will barely affect the user experience.
This would be a totally different conversation if we were talking about like, pop-up video ads that play that you can’t get rid of, but that’s not what’s being described at all.
What did Apple innovate in the last decade? The only decent innovation is the Apple silicon chips. Everything else has been underwhelming to say the least.
So it's then just a question of whether Apple Maps or Google Maps is functionally better.
Yeah but the only reason to use Apple Maps was privacy as Google maps is a clearly superior product with better directions and POIs. If Apple loses the only advantage of being without ads and more privacy conscious I might as well use the better Google maps.
How do you know Apple is not prioritizing user needs? How could anyone of us know what the billions of users want? (Except maybe if you are Tim Cook)
Maybe.
But the road shown on the left-hand Google map, going into the green area, simply does not exist. If you followed it, you would hit a vertical wall, steps, and end up in a children's playground.
And I have reported it to Google several times.
Both maps are imperfect - a little out of date with respect to buildings (building shapes are more accurate on Apple Maps). But the roads on Apple Maps are spot on.
Recently (over the past couple of years) we have had very large roadworks on the biggest main road in the area. Every time I drove through, Apple Maps had been updated, accurately. Often made more sense than the road signage!
Do I live in the only sweet spot for Apple Maps? I doubt it.
Shame you didn’t get nvidia stocks then, they’d he up considerably more than that.
Even though ads probably won’t move the needle even a smidge (as this is just MR noise) I thoroughly respect a viewpoint for voting with their $$$.
Really despise this. Ads are already ruining my Apple News experience.