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Comment by aynyc | Hacker News Reader

People don't use Waze anymore? I find Waze to be more accurate in terms of time on longer drives.

While the Waze app is still separate from Google Maps, I am sure Google is using a ton of the previously Waze specific (mostly user sourced) data in Google Maps since they acquired it in 2013.

https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/11/its-official-google-buys-w...

I occasionally see speed trap alerts in Google Maps, which I figure are sourced from waze user reports.

Waze would always route me through a spiderweb of neighborhood streets to save me a couple minutes of commute time back when I used to use it, but the main reason I switched is that I prefer the design of Apple Maps, and it works "good enough". Google Maps and Waze don't really feel like they fit into the iOS design guidelines, and the overhead of loading all that sponsored content within them just makes them feel sluggish while Apple Maps is always buttery smooth and keeps most of its interface out of your way when you're not using it.

UI-wise, I like the Apple Maps lane indicator and next turn display much, much better than the Google Maps equivalent.

I've honestly never heard of Waze.

EDIT: Holy downvotes, I didn't mean it as anything negative, I actually had to Google it. You can't hear about everything :3

This is a good piece of feedback for anyone at Waze, especially if you were willing to share more about your market details like where you live or any social networks you use, they could evaluate their advertising strategies.

It was an honest response to a valid question. I was quite surprised to see it, but after reflecting, things change in the software world so quickly (and new people are born all the time) that it's inevitable that today's staples will be forgotten tomorrow. Also, congrats, you're one of today's lucky 10,000! [0]

Downvotes weren't warranted IMO, but be careful complaining about downvotes on HN, it's against their usage guidelines [1]:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

[0]: https://xkcd.com/1053/

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The only time I'll ever ask about downvotes is a genuine curiosity as to why people disagree with a point, so I can learn more. :)

I've used Apple Maps on multiple 2-5 hour drives recently, and the time estimates were pretty nearly bang-on in almost all the cases.

(The one exception was the time there were multiple significant tailbacks on the highway, with the amount of delay they were causing clearly shifting and changing minute-to-minute just from what we could see ourselves.)

Didn't they get bought by google?

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