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   AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 21:16:30 JST AI6YR Ben

   LOL. Apparently you can't get maps on a fancy new Toyota vehicle without a subscription. (there's a "free trial" period, then they ding you for $16 a month). I wonder how much they will start charging you to turn your car on every time, or connect to the music player. 🙄

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 21:52:06 JST Warner Crocker

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     • Chancerubbage

     @Chancerubbage @ai6yr Maps on a phone has become table stakes. I’m not sure why carmakers think it’s worthwhile to create their own apps or think they can market them as a subscription to anyone except suckers.

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     Chancerubbage (chancerubbage@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 21:52:07 JST Chancerubbage

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     • Warner Crocker

     @ai6yr @WarnerCrocker

     I had been toying with Garmin GPS since the late 90s. I recall renting a GPS with a rental car out of town around 2009; it was nearly unusable. I’m not certain how robust Maps was on the iPhone yet I had an open 3G or 3GS at the time, that was the first iPhone with aGPS, I may have fallen back on that.

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     Chancerubbage (chancerubbage@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 22:18:26 JST Chancerubbage

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     • Warner Crocker

     @WarnerCrocker @ai6yr

     Some weasle either too greedy to judge or care about customer desires, or wanting to datamine them to death.

     ‘To serve man’. IT’S A COOK BOOK!

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     Chancerubbage (chancerubbage@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 22:36:28 JST Chancerubbage

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     • Warner Crocker

     @WarnerCrocker @ai6yr

     In the late ‘oughts, Apple Store used to sell Tom Tom Go. From the way the clerk got excited and curious, one got a strong suspicion there was inside talk of steering Apple Maps more in the direction of Turn by Turn directions.

     I still prefer a visual overview, a planned known path. I don’t need the granularity in familiar areas, and will only ‘follow the voice’ or watch vibration, in totally unknown areas, often to quite odd adventures.