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https://beta.maps.apple.com/

It doesn’t seem to support Firefox or mobile browsers, at least not.

Maps on the web is compatible with these web browsers

On your Mac or iPad

  • Safari
  • Edge
  • Chrome

On your Windows PC

  • Edge
  • Chrome
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[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 39 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Ah come on! Why no Firefox support?!?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

🤷‍♂️ It’s in beta, so I wouldn’t assume that support won’t get added.

[–] Steve@communick.news 3 points 3 months ago

I get it. It's still beta, and we're only like 2% of the market. Makes sense not to worry about us yet.

[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

For a while Apple artificially blocked signing in to your Apple ID with physical passkeys (like a Yubikey) on Firefox even though the browser supported it just fine.

Their "iCloud for Windows" browser extensions didn't support Firefox either last time I checked (needed for syncing bookmarks and the password manager).

[–] TheFrirish@jlai.lu 30 points 3 months ago

What is this shit?

Oh wow another proprietary maps service that uses opensource data that's years late! wow amazing!

[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm confused, because doesn't Duckduckgo Maps already use Apple Maps?

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Kagi Maps has it as an option too. And it works on Firefox. 🤷

[–] Camilo@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I didn't know Kagi had a maps functionality. It's interesting, but I couldn't find a way for it to tell me public transportation directions, the only reason I keep using Google Maps...

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah I can only find driving directions. I've come across other apps over the years but only ones on Google Play Store. I don't think I've seen any mobile apps that are open source and do my region.

[–] azron@lemmy.ml 23 points 3 months ago

Trade one master for another. All these companies have the same playbook on a slightly shifted timeline.

[–] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 months ago

„tired of sucking one Multimillion Dollar companys balls? Just Suck the balls of another!“

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If you wanna degoogle, https://www.openstreetmap.org is the way to go.

For your phone:
https://organicmaps.app (simple, easy to use)
https://osmand.net (more features)
https://www.magicearth.com (proprietary, with traffic info)

[–] faizalr@kbin.run 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can't open it because I'm on Linux and Firefox.

[–] bhez@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It won't open in Brave on Linux either.

[–] faizalr@kbin.run 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Seems like they developed it for specific browsers.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 months ago

Seems like I won't be using their bullshit.

Seems like they ~~developed it for~~ arbitrarily locked it down to specific browsers using the user agent.

[–] Drusas@kbin.run 9 points 3 months ago

lol, I didn't even know that it wasn't available on the web.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago

i’m confused… apple maps wasn’t available on the web? you’ve been able to send apple maps links forever, and they’ve had an embedding api where you could embed apple maps into web pages :/

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

At least not.

[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I really hope they will release an Android app :)

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 5 points 3 months ago

OrganicMaps already exists :p