Please go to Apple Maps and harass them mecilessly
Also, reporting that Trump Tower (either) should be renamed Mexico Tower feels pretty good.
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2025
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Shout out to the menial workers at Apple Maps who are going to have a crap day at work tomorrow because of the thing their boss made them do, so they don't get fired and replaced by someone else who would do it.
That's why they made Apple intelligence so minded numbingly stupid. Job security. If it were capable Apple management would have replaced everyone.
~~lol, the iOS app won’t let me submit a ‘name is wrong’ report.~~
I’m dumb
You can leave a review for 'gulf of Mexico (gulf of America)' in Google maps too. Let's do a review bomb
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You should abandon Apple for Linux anyways. Apple doesn't care about you, your privacy, or anything but them making more money, from you. This has been proven time and time again by evidence and whistleblowers.
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That’s odd; my Apple Maps says “Gulf of Mexico” and searching for “Gulf of America” shows 0 results.
Unlike Google Maps/Earth….
You have to access it from a US IP address to get the new name.
From a UK or German IP address, Google maps has it as Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America).
We're being dragged into this mess so will look to report it
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The stunlock continues
I'm going to start calling it the United States of America of Mexico and sometimes Canada.
I use Naziland
I'm going to start using that one thank you.
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A waste of our time for sure, but I did it as well.
It says my report is “in review” and I’ll be notified when they review it.
I wonder how that will go, and how fast.
I assume they have mechanisms to just push mass reports into a black hole. Or similar.
Don't worry. They can send the reports to /dev/null where they will be read by Tim Apple himself when he checks it.
I don't really know how to feel about this.
Was it decreed by an absolute narcissist for no reason other than the kind of blatant arrogance Americans are notorious for? Absolutely.
Was it also completely legal? As far as I can tell. It's not really these companies' place to resist map name changes, it's the citizens' and our representatives'.
Does it have anything at all to do with fascism? No.
All he can dictate is what official American maps call it. But he can't make everyone else rename it, Apple and Google did not need to rename it they could have ignored him who has no legal power to do anything to them but they are kissing his bronzed arse so of course they did.
Apple and Google did not need to rename it
Who has the authority to dictate what things should be called on a map if not the government? Tech companies are supposed to make these decisions? If they did nothing, that would be in defiance of the government, and most companies don't want to be involved in politics at all, regardless of who the President is.
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