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by lotsofpulp15 hours ago |
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upvoteby BitwiseFool13 hours ago|
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Personally, I hope the lack of advertisements in Apple Maps comes bundled with the fact that I purchased an iPhone. A lack of ads is a selling point.
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upvoteby npunt3 hours ago|
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Especially when ads win out over UX. Just a month ago I searched for UPS locations in Google Maps and filtered by open, and one place nearby popped up. I put the package in my car and drove over and lo and behold they were closed. When faced with a choice, Google chose to be greedy and make money on an ad unit over providing the correct user experience.

I've used Google Maps for two decades and have 1000s of saved pins. I could have been a customer for life. Haven't used it since.

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upvoteby lotsofpulp13 hours ago|
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My comment was tongue in cheek. They are already here:

https://ads.apple.com/maps

Which means the only other option is to hopefully be able to pay Apple even more to not have to see ads. Maybe buy more Apple shares to share in this "advancement".

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upvoteby al_borland11 hours ago|
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Just because they are hear doesn’t mean they can’t ago away.

Under Jobs they tried iAds. The idea was to make ads so high quality that people would want to interact with them, and they had to go through a vetting process to ensure there were no dark patterns that would make people scared to tap an iAd. After a while, it was decided it didn’t work and they pulled it.

A company is under no obligation to continue bad ideas.

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upvoteby alden55 hours ago|
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God that's really disappointing, having ads in the app store was bad enough but in an app I use everyday lowkey makes me reconsider using an iphone. I know I can always install another app but I feel like apple's moat is their 1st party software and them cheapening it to make a few cents is really disappointing. It feels really dumb going to a nice apple store opening up the app store for the first time on your $1k+ phone and you're immediately served ads so apple can make a few cents. The customer experience downgrade does not seem worth it to me.
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upvoteby al_borland14 hours ago|
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Add Apple News to the list. Paying for Apple News and still getting paywalled by various sources was insane. I don’t know who approved that, but it turned me off the whole service.

Apple Maps really needs to up their POI game. They have some native data, but I’m still regularly seeing images from 3rd party sites and get prompted to download the app. I understood it in year 1, but we’re 13 years in now. This is the primary reason I keep Google Maps around.

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upvoteby projektfu14 hours ago|
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It's remarkably annoying, as a business, to keep your Apple Maps data up to date. But, thankfully, they seem to have ended their partnership with Yelp.
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upvoteby al_borland11 hours ago|
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> But, thankfully, they seem to have ended their partnership with Yelp.

I’m not so sure about this. Tapping around to some random businesses around me, I see photos being pulled in from Yelp, OpenTable, and Foursquare.

When I try to view the photos full screen, OpenTable and Foursquare images work seamlessly. Yelp prompts for an app download to jump me over to their world, which is a horrible user experience.

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upvoteby projektfu1 hours ago|
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Friends don't let friends support Yelp. Hopefully that's all just cruft. Apple used to get things like open hours from Yelp, but now they have their own, complicated, Apple ID location that I never remember to update and have to go through typical Apple ID machinations to use.
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upvoteby goldfishgold9 hours ago|
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I just opened maps and took a look. Kinda shocking to me that there doesn’t appear to be an obvious or easy way to add POI data. Google Maps is huge on promoting users to supply UGC.
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