On my new iPhone, I was disappointed to find that Apple Maps is once again the default navigator for addresses in the Calendar app.
Oh, yes, Apple Maps, I had trouble with that before. Didn't seem to find things when Google Maps had the correct answer right away. After once getting lost with Apple Maps two years ago, I decided to never use it again. I wanted to go to a Bernie Sanders meeting, and for some reason Apple Maps couldn't give me consistent directions to it, or even a consistent location. Apple Maps censorship? I decided then and there never to use Apple Maps again. I opened up Google Maps which found the location and directed me to it very nicely. Everyone I talked to said Google Maps is better.
But this time, with my new iPhone 8 Plus, I was in a hurry, and just let Apple Maps run, for at least a couple minutes. Maybe they had made it better by now.
Now I have many of my own special routes, which aren't necessarily shorter, but I feel they are safer. I bypass particularly problematic highway onramps and interchanges, and left turns without green arrows.
Without thinking, I followed the first Apple Maps direction, before I realized that I wasn't going my way. So I took turned on a side street to get turned around and back going on my chosen route to get on the necessary highway.
Rather too quickly, Apple Maps began blaring: "Return to designated route." As I was getting myself turned around, it blared "Return to designated route" a second time. And once I got back going on my route going the way I prefer, it blared that message a third time. This reminded me of a similarly stuck up navigator I used on a Lincoln I rented in 1991, which also kept blaring "Return to designated route."
Enough of Apple Maps tyranny! I parked, and though I was already going to be a few minutes late, I took the trouble to download Google Maps right then and there. I entered in the address of my destination, and Google Maps took it from there. Big relief.
When I change to a different route, Google Maps always seems to figure that out fairly quickly, and rather than giving me a stupid "Return to Designated Route" message, which would be unhelpful even if I wanted to follow it, Google Maps quickly figures out the new route I'm planning to take, and goes along with my plan, without a single bad word. I don't recall Google Maps ever telling me to "return to designated route" or anything like that.
But now it appears, tyrannical Apple has caught up with us prisoners. You can no longer change the navigator used by Calendar to Google Maps. Resistance is futile!
Damn. I'll just have to enter the directions into Google Maps each time, rather than relying on the helpful Calendar navigator link.
Unless I can find a new Google Calendar that links to Google Maps.
Sadly, Google Calendar appears to be merely a front to Google. You have to log into Google before it does anything. So I tossed that also.
Oh, yes, Apple Maps, I had trouble with that before. Didn't seem to find things when Google Maps had the correct answer right away. After once getting lost with Apple Maps two years ago, I decided to never use it again. I wanted to go to a Bernie Sanders meeting, and for some reason Apple Maps couldn't give me consistent directions to it, or even a consistent location. Apple Maps censorship? I decided then and there never to use Apple Maps again. I opened up Google Maps which found the location and directed me to it very nicely. Everyone I talked to said Google Maps is better.
But this time, with my new iPhone 8 Plus, I was in a hurry, and just let Apple Maps run, for at least a couple minutes. Maybe they had made it better by now.
Now I have many of my own special routes, which aren't necessarily shorter, but I feel they are safer. I bypass particularly problematic highway onramps and interchanges, and left turns without green arrows.
Without thinking, I followed the first Apple Maps direction, before I realized that I wasn't going my way. So I took turned on a side street to get turned around and back going on my chosen route to get on the necessary highway.
Rather too quickly, Apple Maps began blaring: "Return to designated route." As I was getting myself turned around, it blared "Return to designated route" a second time. And once I got back going on my route going the way I prefer, it blared that message a third time. This reminded me of a similarly stuck up navigator I used on a Lincoln I rented in 1991, which also kept blaring "Return to designated route."
Enough of Apple Maps tyranny! I parked, and though I was already going to be a few minutes late, I took the trouble to download Google Maps right then and there. I entered in the address of my destination, and Google Maps took it from there. Big relief.
When I change to a different route, Google Maps always seems to figure that out fairly quickly, and rather than giving me a stupid "Return to Designated Route" message, which would be unhelpful even if I wanted to follow it, Google Maps quickly figures out the new route I'm planning to take, and goes along with my plan, without a single bad word. I don't recall Google Maps ever telling me to "return to designated route" or anything like that.
But now it appears, tyrannical Apple has caught up with us prisoners. You can no longer change the navigator used by Calendar to Google Maps. Resistance is futile!
Damn. I'll just have to enter the directions into Google Maps each time, rather than relying on the helpful Calendar navigator link.
Unless I can find a new Google Calendar that links to Google Maps.
Sadly, Google Calendar appears to be merely a front to Google. You have to log into Google before it does anything. So I tossed that also.
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