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Funny@sh.itjust.worksbyIced Raktajino@startrek.website
2 months

Throwback Thursday: When the Apple Maps icon told you to take a hard left off the side of a bridge

Saw an article posted about Tim Cook calling the launch of Apple Maps his first big mistake which reminded me of this.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1 month

      Gives me fond memories of the early days when Google maps would tell you to jet ski across the South China Sea from the Philippines to Vietnam or kayak across the Pacific Ocean from California to Hawaii 😄

        • AeronMelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1 month

          In less funny news, Google Maps once told me to walk onto a freeway off-ramp.

          • ch00f@lemmy.world
            1 month

            Reminds me of this story https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-long-way-home/

          • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
            2 months

            But that’s literally the directions to the 280N on ramp from DeAnza

              • AeronMelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1 month

                Yeah, it was revealed that it’s a valid turn but the icon lacks the detail to explain why.

                Either way, they completely changed it to the highway that runs beside Apple Park.

                • Doug@piefed.socialEnglish
                  1 month

                  guess i’ll die 🤷

                  • mephiska@fedia.io
                    1 month

                    Yeah, It’s a bridge with a left turn freeway onramp. It’s a thing, at least in California. Not all onramps are those clover leaf right hand loops.

                  • realitista@lemmus.orgEnglish
                    1 month

                    Cook added: “Now we’ve got the best map app on the planet”

                    Who’s going to break the news to him?

                    • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
                      1 month

                      They installed a ramp. Is not only safe, but rad

                      • JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                        1 month

                        So there was no on-ramp there but AppleMaps decided there was?

                          • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
                            1 month

                            There is an onramp, the directions are just poorly worded.

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