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All the more reason for Apple to buy Rivian. 

chasm said:

I can’t speak for every area of the world, obviously, but in North America (or at least in the populated parts thereof), I can’t really fathom why an Apple product user would use Google Maps over Apple Maps. The latter is IMO a far superior product.

Once every half-year or so, I’ll put on a route in my area through Google Maps just to see if it’s gotten better.

As far as simply getting from populated point A to populated point B goes, they’re equal. The fit and finish of Apple Maps, the up-to-date hazard/slowdown colour-coding, and the more pleasing voice of Siri versus whatever they call the Google Maps voice are among the many small touches I appreciate, as well as the accurate estimated arrival times, the art style used for the 3D display of buildings and features, the offer to save time by re-routing, and more.

I agree...While I have Google Maps on my phone, I always just use Apple Maps for everything. It's just a better UI IMO and works quite well. I'm sure it doesn't work great everywhere, but Google Maps is the same way. It may be better in certain areas than others. 

tiredskills said:

They're serious about it now, at least making money out of it, just not the super flashy stuff.

Better development tools would definitely help though.

It needs to somehow be profitable for gaming studios too or else they won't create and maintain the game for the Mac. I think what may help them is if they can make an iOS app and a macOS app at the same time. Perhaps the iOS game can make developers enough profit to keep them on the Apple platform. 

Apple does seem to be helping developers a little more with creating games for the iOS and the Mac. We'll see if this continues. Apple has a long road ahead of them to get people to use a Mac for gaming. They have to somehow turn the page of people not laughing at you for trying to use a Mac to game. I think Apple has the hardware to do it, now they need to get the software side done and that's gonna take a lot of work on their part. 

Apple needs to shit on the pot or get off it when it comes to games. Every couple of years Apple does this and we see maybe 1 thing happen and then it fizzles out. Couple years later Apple announces it's making a push into gaming again, rinse and repeat. 

If they're gonna do it then do it and stick with it. It's not gonna happen overnight but they now have a great hardware platform and if developers can see where they can make an iOS game and a macOS game at the same time perhaps more major gaming studios will choose to make those versions. Apple needs to stick with it though and not just say they're gonna do something and then 6 months later let it all fizzle out. 

CrossPlatformFrogger said:

Sure this sounds super convenient but I'm not sure why everyone is rushing to have all of their data and identity controlled by Big Tech. I actually find it scary that one company has all your health data, personal information, banking information, and basically knows everything about you. That they'll use for their own corporate gain. There may not have been a data breach to date but the day there is, it'll be the most disastrous. I prefer my data to stay with the places that hold them now. With all that said I support regulation of big tech and think they should stay out of every industry

Apple doesn't know anything about you.  How many times do we have to go over this?