alt Hacker News> It’s extremely disruptive, but blaming Google or Apple for any of this is a bad move, imo
They have the capacity to push back, instead of pre-emptively rolling over for an autocrat.
> It’s extremely disruptive, but blaming Google or Apple for any of this is a bad move, imo
They have the capacity to push back, instead of pre-emptively rolling over for an autocrat.
Google and Apple don’t name things. If the official name inside the US is Lake America, they are only hurting their users by delaying the change, as the map will no longer be in line with the reality the users are living in and things they need to look up.
When it’s only one thing, you might say everyone just knows, but that doesn’t scale.
And like I mentioned, they need to pick their battles. I’d rather them save their politics and favors for things like encryption and privacy, not piss it away on map data, when they can show both names and this will likely be a small footnote in history. In 20 years I can imagine, “What was the name of Lake Ontario for a brief period in the mid 2020s?” Being a question asked at bar trivia.