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Re: DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps

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Post by saagarjha »

clairity wrote: post #42
reaperducer wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's regional. For a long time (in internet time), Apple Maps were clearly inferior to Google Maps. These days, it's more nuanced. In some geographies they have parity. In a select few, Apple is ahead. For most, though, Google is better. For speed and privacy reasons, I check Apple Maps first. If I don't find what I'm looking for, then I go to Google Maps and follow up by force-quitting Google Maps when I'm done.

where do you think apple maps is better than google? google maps is the only google service i still use on a regular basis because it's clearly better than apple maps for me (california mostly). apple maps is ok for simple use cases like finding a known business, but an ambiguous search on google maps is almost always better, as is their routing. i'd love to find a better mapping service for these more complicated us…

Interestingly, I find Apple Maps to be at least par, and in some cases better, in California. This is following the push they had this summer to improve their maps here.

Re: DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps

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Post by josteink »

zbruhnke wrote: post #49

I really wish DDG would build a Google Apps competitor ... as long as gmail dominates email and business email the privacy argument is largely irrelevant because people will spend hours per day logged in and locked in to the Google ecosystem

I don’t use Gmail. FastMail works nicely for me, with no google-login required.

Don’t see why DDG (a search engine) should run an email-service, nor vica-verse really.

Re: DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps

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Post by njarboe »

master-litty wrote: post #54
cygned wrote: post #50

When DuckDuckGo is set to a dark theme, the map is also in dark mode! To me, that is an incredible valuable feature. Edit: which is a fallback to Mapbox, no Apple Maps feature.

We can send people to the moon but we can barely get dark mode right :)

We can't currently send people to the moon, unfortunately. SpaceX is working on creating that capability in the next decade or so though and with there track record it might even happen.

Re: DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps

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Post by ethagnawl »

zbruhnke wrote: post #49

I really wish DDG would build a Google Apps competitor ... as long as gmail dominates email and business email the privacy argument is largely irrelevant because people will spend hours per day logged in and locked in to the Google ecosystem

I could see Proton* making this play.

Re: DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps

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Post by jonas21 »

zbruhnke wrote: post #49

I really wish DDG would build a Google Apps competitor ... as long as gmail dominates email and business email the privacy argument is largely irrelevant because people will spend hours per day logged in and locked in to the Google ecosystem

How would that work? Surely they'd need to index your documents and emails so you could search over them. And I think many DDG users would find that pretty unappealing.

Re: DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps

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Post by bunnycorn »

saagarjha wrote: post #58
cygned wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good catch, I missed that. However, I guess that Apple will provide a dark mode for their map, too, at some point since they build dark mode into their OS(es?) anyway.

I'm sure this will come once @media(prefers-color-scheme) becomes more prevalent.

Won't take much time, since Safari betas already have it.

Re: DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps

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Post by wil421 »

sveme wrote: post #20
soperj wrote: post #3

Not in the US - so realize that not everyone experiences this - but I've never had a mapping software be so terrible as Apple maps, led me completely out of the way and over a toll bridge that I didn't need to go over. Trip was over an hour longer than it needed to be. I'll definitely still be using !maps to get google maps on duckduckgo.

What‘s your country? Using Apple Maps all the time in Germany and found it to be actually better than Google Maps (though with a tendency to reroute around traffic more often than Google Maps used to do).

Is Apple Maps good with public transit? I used Google maps in and around Stuttgart and Munich. It worked extremely well. Google Maps was extremely good with public transport in NYC but Apple Maps was not.

Where I live but the Southern US Apple Maps is almost as good as Google Maps. Public Transport isn’t quite as good with Apple maps in my city.

Re: DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps

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Post by jlarocco »

zbruhnke wrote: post #49

I really wish DDG would build a Google Apps competitor ... as long as gmail dominates email and business email the privacy argument is largely irrelevant because people will spend hours per day logged in and locked in to the Google ecosystem

There's no need for that, and no reason a search engine company should provide those things.

There are already alternatives for every Google product, most of them objectively better.

The only thing keeping you locked into Google is you.

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