Apple Maps launches on the web to challenge Google Maps

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

@davel In my area Apple Maps is usually better than Google Maps.

I remember when Apple Maps was a joke. These days it’s just simply better than google maps. Never thought I’d say that.

@ThirdWorldOrder Same, I remember trying it early on and it was awful

I switched to iPhone about 18 months ago and refused to use Apple Maps at first. I tried Apple Maps when they added offline maps (I live in rural NM and that is a must). I hardly use Google maps any longer now.

Getting a place updated in Apple Maps is proving to be a a little more difficult than it was in Google maps though.

That happens a lot to Google products.

They managed to import OpenStreetMap data

Tee hee. Not supporting iPhone? Yes it has an app …. I just find that really funny.

Safari and (chromium) browsers. Huh

Ah come on! Why no Firefox support?!?

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

Not compatible with Firefox is the fastest way to know they don’t follow web standards. On brand.

I dislike Apple more than most people, and they are indeed terrible with standards in general, but with web standards they’re doing the world a bit of a favour by pushing WebKit (based on KHTML) on all its users. WebKit is open source and used in for example GNOME Web.

Had it not been for Apple nobody would give a shit about creating websites that work outside of Chrome.

2% and shrinking with every major service that isn’t compatible

Then we’ll make our own fedi-services with blackjack and hookers, someday… One can dream.

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

I would. Apple has a long history of intentionally crippling its services on Firefox.

I just tried it on a Firefox fork on Android. Works fine if you spoof the useragent.

I hate that bs

For people like me who thought they have to hack into the Pentagon to spoof their Browser data: you can do that by using chameleon, an extension thats at least in the Firefox add on page

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).

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 :/

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

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