Why are Americans so riled up about this?
Do you guys not realize that this reaction is literally one of the reasons they do this? To be a distraction and to show their base that they made the bad people™ cry about it.
Why are Americans so riled up about this?
For me, it’s the blatant racism with some fascist nationalism thrown in.
I think you’re under thinking this.
The primary focus of Trump since coming to office has been securing natural resources. Greenland, Canada, Ukraine all have rich mineral deposits. Even the Panama shit is about controlling a geographic “resource”…the canal.
This rename is about making it sound like it belongs to the US. What’s there a lot of here? Oil. And it sits under international waters.
The US already has a lot of rights to the oil there. but the rigs aren’t pumping because despite the drill, baby, drill crap US oil companies already have too much supply. He wants them to drill just to look like they’re doing more shit.
Come on man if we are crying racism over this is nonsense no-one will actually listen to us when we are actually facing real racism.
This is exactly what they want.
Ewww. Deleting the app.
Well this is surely upsetting.
In my view, the only ones that really care are the people whose opinions don’t matter. The Gulf of Mexico will always be the Gulf of Mexico, regardless of what it may legally be called. Much the same way, in my view, X will always be Twitter, And Zuckerberg will always be POS.
Sears Tower
Staples Center
6th Avenue
Gulf of Mexico
I don’t give a shit who thinks it should change, I’ll use the original names forever
I think it’s just disgusting to see these companies I am dependent on bowing down to Trump’s bullshit.
True, for me America is and has always been Wankistan
Oh wtf apple
Did you really expect the trillionaire company to be on your side?
Are you shocked?
Still says Gulf of Mexico to me. Is the change just for American users then?
I’m an American and it still says the proper name for me too.
For me it shows Golf of Mexico until I zoom in.
Lmao its apple map alright
Now it just shows Golf of America for me. Seems to have been caused by the live rollout.
In the UK, it says both. One above the other.
Spineless and pathetic.
I’m in the UK. Just says Gulf of Mexico for me, even when I select it.
Tim
CookTim
AppleTim Pussy
Tim Cuck
Did my part
Same
Me too!
Apple has been suppressing the resistance in russia. They dont give a fuck about freedom or democracy. It’s naive to think theyll do anything but enable trumps takeover
Tim Apple is literally a financial contributer to the Trump presidency. They are not being shy about their support. I’m Suprised it took them this long, but they’ve always been a bit behind with their maps project.
Of course not. They’re a corporation. We like to think they’re perhaps less evil than others, but the truth is they would harvest their users internal organs if they thought it would increase shareholder value.
Fuck Capitalism.
We’ve known since the beginning their products are made off the suffering of slave labor. Them being evil isn’t new whatsoever.
Google Maps right now:
Unlike Google they still have a “report issue” button active.
And I will continue to use it until they take it away
They don’t have to take it away, they can just set up the backend to blackhole those requests. So presence of the report issue facility does not imply they actually will ever even see the issue.
Put all borders in Sharpie, you Apple cowards!!
Corpos gonna corp.
Google maps on Android shows “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)”.
Mine just shows Gulf of America. :-(
Are you in America? I’m in Canada so I wonder if that makes a difference.
I am in the US
Well, yeah, because the United States Geographical Service is the source of truth for geographical names. No surprise Google and Apple follow it. There’s a little more breakdown than that, but that’s the gist of it.
https://www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names/domestic-names
The change is fucking stupid, you know it, I know it, we all know it. Save your fucking ire for all the real shit going down. In comparison, this doesn’t rate a single breath.
This is correct, given a new administration can simply change it back to keep it in line with the rest of the world. Won’t do us much good if there isn’t a next administration, though.
