Yes I do. Google Maps works great on my iphone and with Car Play. I never use Apple Maps.
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None of the "Cracks" that Apple has put in iOS to satisfy EU law makes the devices any more or less suceptible to malware. Thus far, the only malware I've seen on iOS are exploiting bugs in Apple's code.
Even on Android, which is far more open than iOS, malware is exceedingly rare because of sandboxing (which is also obviously used on iOS), and is mostly - again - taking advantage of bugs in Google's code.
Pretty sure you have to tell Siri to use Google Maps every time you make a query, she won't use it by default ever.
For a while, then she learns to use it by default. If I ask for directions anywhere in CarPlay now, it will say "navigating to X via Google Maps" without me asking for Google Maps. I still have Apple Maps installed.
Exaggerated sweeping statements aren’t helpful to anyone. In my experience Google Maps is much better at finding businesses, whereas Apple Maps is better at finding residential addresses.
Half the time if I search a business on Apple Maps, it hasn’t heard of it, most of the time I type a specific house number on Google Maps, it takes me to the wrong end of the street, and upon zooming in you realise barely 1 in 10 houses on that street have numbers on GMaps.
Because of this I tend to use both to compliment each apps shortcomings.
Fair enough, but when discussing this it's useful to disclose where you live. I live in Sweden, and Apple Maps is literally useless here.
hmm, not the end of the world for me.
is voice recognition decent? It's pretty top notch on pixels. I haven't enjoyed Siri on any of my other apple devices.
Uh for voice recognition I always try to use anything Google, I avoid Siri like the plague (but that's just me of course).
I live quite rurally in England, we certainly don’t have all of the features the Americans get, and when we eventually do, they don’t tend to be as comprehensive, but I wouldn’t grade it as “literally useless”.
I came to depend on it quite heavily back when I was a Police Officer, in the town I worked (and all the surrounding villages I checked) in Google most residential streets don’t have house numbers or if they do, they’re incomplete or completely wrong. Using google maps we’d often waste precious time as Google would send you to the wrong end/part of a street, I tried Apple and to my surprise it would pinpoint the house exactly nearly every single time (but as I already said, there are businesses that have been there 10 years that Apple Maps hasn’t heard of).
So these days I use both, if I'm asked to drive to [Business name] @ [Town] I’ll enter it into Google maps, if an acquaintance asks for a lift and tells me they live at [House Number + Street] I’m using Apple. I also find Google better at corrections in my experience, every correction I’ve submitted has been accepted pretty quickly, I’ve submitted multiple to Apple and simply never heard back about any of them and they’re still wrong.
Ditto. I use Youtube Music and mostly Siri responds to music commands with that, but sometimes for whatever reason it reverts to Apple Music instead, which is annoying.
If those complaining about the image bothered to read the article, it would have become clear that said image was merely used as a depiction of the general feature being discussed. When you make assumptions without bothering to read, don’t complain to the author for your self-induced frustration.
Siri is the same piece of crap on all Apple devices and that will probably never change.
It'll need to have a specific entitlement set for the iPhone to configure that. It's probably coming.
Thanks for sharing this, exactly what the point is in all this. So many confuse anecdotal experiences with actual data, population level statistics, especially given the install base of iOS. With ~1.46 billion iOS users if "only" .5% are harmed that's 7.3 million people. I also understand now that Apple has more safeguards than Google, Apple has a far more responsible policy that the cyberlibertarians at Google. Kudos!
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I live in NYC where most don't have cars, and the vast majority don't use cars. I haven't owned a car since 1992, and only drive them maybe 1 week a year. But you bring up a great point: most software should be as regulated as cars (and pharma), so that harm is reduced, products are trusted, companies are held responsible for defects, etc. The underlying cyberlibertarian assumption that software should be exempt from any regulation or governance unlike most all other products and sectors is just absurd.
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Of course you don't.
Because Apple is selling Music and Music subscriptions.
Of course not.
Because Apple is selling Maps ads.
Of course you can.
Because Apple makes good commission from 1Password and other third-party password apps/services.
Including a lot of oh-so-sweet recurring subscription income.
While not having a monetised password app of their own.
They willingly put the largest "cracks" in it when opening their enterprise developer program.
But of course... won't forgo that sweet enterprise sales.
👉 It is never really about customer choice or convenience. It has never been about that.
It was always about whether Apple has, introduces or plans to introduce a competing product.
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Yeah but he's talking about on iOS.
The security issues in those stories either already apply in principle to iOS as we've seen plenty of apps get through App Review, or more importantly don't apply at all because iOS doesn't work that way.
It's not the App Store keeping the iPhone secure, it's iOS. The App Store can help but most of these Android scam apps come from things overlaying the screen and taking over system level permissions.
Apple still doesn't and still doesn't have to allow that. There are still social engineering weaknesses, but the technical capabilities built in (barring exploits) are just fundamentally different than on Android.
MR has shared this kind of story ever since the ability came into being. You have no proof MR copied from Gary.