Apple Maps launches on the web to challenge Google Maps | TechCrunch
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Apple Maps is now available on the web via a public beta, which means you can now access the service directly from your browser.
    • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
      41·
      4 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.

      • arthurpizza@lemmy.worldEnglish
        301·
        4 months ago

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

        • cabbage@piefed.social
          51·
          4 months ago

          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.

        • pop@lemmy.ml
          1·
          4 months ago

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

    • narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee
      3·
      4 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).

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      41·
      4 months ago

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