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by hef19898 1108 days ago
Un-googling, I found out, is easier than un-Microsofting or un-Facebooking. MS because of Office and FB because of WhatsApp.

Writing this from a yet to be un-googled Pixel phone...
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shepherdjerred 1108 days ago
Google Maps, YouTube, and gmail (forwarded to my fastmail) are all that I really have, but they're _really_ hard to replace.

Apple Maps sucks, there's nothing near as good as YouTube, and I don't want to move hundreds of email accounts off of gmail.

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trinsic2 1108 days ago
> Apple Maps sucks

Really? I found it more accurate in most cases. I wonder if there is a difference based on location. I am in California. Also maybe years ago it was not as good as Google, maybe it got better since then?

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shepherdjerred 1108 days ago
It works alright, but it is absolutely terrible for discovery, e.g. finding places to eat/things to do. If you already know where you want to go, it's usually pretty good.

Additionally, to view any reviews you have to download Yelp

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abwizz 1108 days ago
probably a little of all the reasons you named, plus some others.

most likely it was just a shallow bait for apple fan's as i too use apple maps almost exclusively for some years now and found it more than capable for my navigation needs.

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