Seems like many companies product quality has plummeted over the last few years. For example, Google (despite its flaws), used to have good products and services. Now they are virtually unusable.
My doctor sent me forms to my Gmail and I never got them. I looked it up and apparently Gmail has the document provider blocked so you literally cannot get medical forms. Stuff like this happens all the time now! Their search engine is nothing but sponsored ads now.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. I just think it’s funny that capitalism ends up making much much worse products over time.
Yah best to move away. Waze, protein mail or petalmail, brave, physical storage.
Waze used to be an Israeli company and is now owned by Google. If you want to move away from Google, there aren’t many options. The only ones that work well are Microsoft’s and Apple’s. If I had to choose between the two, I’d go with Apple’s because Microsoft.
The best option is OpenStreetMap, which is open source, but it doesn’t have nearly the amount of places as the others, since no one tries to add their business to it.
OpenStreetMap is at the “painful, but ultimately usable” stage for me.
I use the OsmAnd+ app along with RHVoice for text-to-speech. The built-in search feature sucks. You’ll have to do your initial search via Kagi or DuckDuckGo or Google or Bing or whatever. But once you plug in the actual address, OsmAnd+ will get you there without trouble 90+ percent of the time (and, anecdotally, when OsmAnd+ has struggled, so too have the more dominant players, like Google Maps and Apple Maps).
Yeah, the main issue is the search. The reason it sucks is that no one adds their businesses to it since it’s not very commonly used.