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I guess it gives them leverage vis a vis Google?

I like that it tells me what lane to be in, so it's my main mapping app. Also presumably better privacy than Google Maps.

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> I like that it tells me what lane to be in, so it's my main mapping app.

Google maps does that too.

> Also presumably better privacy than Google Maps.

Yeah you might say that.

My Android-owning Irish mate got hammered one night. Had no idea where he’d been.

We launched Google Maps and it had a GPS track of his entire night. Like a dotted map with every step he’d taken.

Yeah, it's a feature enabled by default outside of the EU (in the EU it asks you if you want to enable it). Makes for some fun stats/recaps, and is useful for tracing back steps (wait, where was that awesome store/restaurant/park/whatever we went to while on a trip to XYZ?) at the expense of Google knowing a lot about you.

iPhone does this too, though the location data doesn’t leave your phone unless you share it with an app that does that.

On iPhone I only see Signifcant Locations; on my phone I only see a list of 3 places (despite 400 records). Compared to Google Timeline it’s much more curtailed function.

Google intends to do the same by end of this year:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/5/24172204/google-maps-delet...

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