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Apple Explains Why It Doesn't Plan to Create a Search Engine
(www.macrumors.com)
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this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2024
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Like what they did with Maps… oh wait, Maps is actually pretty good now. Better than Google Maps in many ways. (Especially since it’s ad free and not shoving sponsored things at people)
And it’s voice based navigation is way ahead of Google’s. I mean, both get you there, sure. But no google, I don’t need to know I’m taking a turn on ST257315, when the road doesn’t even have a name sign. Telling me to turn right towards XY at the stop sign (as apple does) makes wayyy more sense.
"In 100ft continue onto I<whatever>"
I'm on the on-ramp, Google, where else do you think I might try to go?
About that,. Applé maps is OSM. So maybe the play is to steal a seach engine
They might take some data from OSM but it’s certainly not “live” OSM. Unfortunate, because that would make correcting data much easier and better (and you wouldn’t have to correct much in the first place)