Sunshine (she/her) to Apple@lemmy.world · 3 days agoApple Maps now uses ‘Gulf of America’ name in US, will roll out globally soon9to5mac.comexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1118arrow-down18
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minus-squareNotSteve_linkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 day agoThank god they didn’t pull a Google and it’s still Gulf of Mexico outside the US. Don’t give me that (Gulf of America) BS Edit: I’m an idiot and didn’t read the full title. Wtf?
minus-squarePaul in de Emiraten@mastodon.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 hours ago@NotSteve_ @Sunshine that why I didn’t get the fuss. Here in the Emirates; if I use Apple Maps, it still is “Gulf of Mexico”. So I thought you’re all lying! And making Tim and Trump look bad. But now I get it. BTW: Apple calls the Arabian Gulf the Persian Gulf. Not nice. ;-)
Thank god they didn’t pull a Google and it’s still Gulf of Mexico outside the US. Don’t give me that (Gulf of America) BS
Edit: I’m an idiot and didn’t read the full title. Wtf?
@NotSteve_ @Sunshine that why I didn’t get the fuss.
Here in the Emirates; if I use Apple Maps, it still is “Gulf of Mexico”. So I thought you’re all lying! And making Tim and Trump look bad.
But now I get it.
BTW: Apple calls the Arabian Gulf the Persian Gulf.
Not nice.
;-)