MapQuest stood up to President Donald Trump, and now its app is reaping the rewards.

The “OG of online mapping,” as the company calls itself, announced on Thursday that it would not change the name of Lake Ontario on its maps to Lake America, despite Trump’s executive order directing the U.S. Department of the Interior to update the lake’s name in the U.S. geographic naming service. As a result, MapQuest’s mobile app downloads soared, sending the iOS app to the No. 4 position on the U.S. App Store’s Top Charts for apps (not including games) as of Monday morning on the U.S. east coast.

MapQuest also reached the No. 8 position overall in the U.S. App Store across both apps and games, and it became the No. 1 Navigation app in the United States.

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[–] 0 points 2 months ago (19 children)

I wish there were more competitors for products like Google Photos. I would switch, but I'm so ingrained at this point that I don't know if there is any leaving.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Anything that doesn't require self hosting or Linux knowledge?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    https://ente.com/ doesn't require self-hosting (or Linux-fu) but you can self-host if you want to. The company is a darling company among tech nerds for that fact plus the focus on security+privacy plus being open-source and having a generous free tier plan. The company has channeled its success into a few different directions, such as a 2FA authenticator app and also into something that looks like a secure/encrypted Google Drive, which sounds interesting but I haven't tried it yet since I don't do a lot of cloud-storing of files.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I just use iCloud 🤷‍♂️

    Caveat, I don’t take pictures for the purpose of saving them. Like family photos or events or whatever. So I’m not really in the market for such a service.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    I'm not self-hosting anything. I'm not into all that.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (5 children)

    That’s a choice you make. But you can’t say you wish there was a competitor and then when one is presented you scoff at it.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Are you dense? I wished for a competitor, you mentioned a completely different solution. That's like me saying I want a Big Mac, and then you giving me a recipe to make a hamburger at home. Like, yeah, I'm sure it's better, but I'm not cooking that shit.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    You not making food at home is again, your choice.

    A Big Mac and a hamburger at home are still both foods.

    Keep doing them mental gymnastics.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Have a look at Ente. I've completely moved over to it from GPhotos. I did so originally for privacy reasons (end-to-end encryption &etc) but the 10G of free storage is plenty for me and their web/phone apps are good.

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