Someone please make it stop?
It hasn’t even been an entire month yet…
Holy shit, I can’t believe this is true
I asked nicely? Please?
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
1438 days, 14 hours, 6 minutes remaining.
Stahp!
Well I can hear right now…
Get your guillotine ready, because this is just starting.
We have an asteroid incoming, so there’s hope…
Regardless of your stance on the name change, doesn’t the executive order (and subsequent updating of the names register or whatever it’s called) make it official? In which case the maps are just being updated to reflect it.
Afaik they’re not changing it anywhere outside the US as (so far…) that’s the only place it’s been changed, so it’s not like they’re pushing that name in places where it’s not official.
It’s also not unheard of to have map details that vary depending on where you are, to align with the official stance of wherever the map is being viewed from. Ukraine, bits of the India/Pakistan border, IIRC some islands off Japan disputed by China, etc.
Not saying the name change isn’t stupid and not suggesting at all that the companies in question aren’t scum, but getting angry at the map maintainers for this change seems pointless. What did you expect them to do?
Am I missing something?
Thank you for taking the time to post this. I didn’t have the energy to explain to all the teenagers here that these companies have two choices: comply with this completely legal name change, or go to war with the White House over it to make some kind of statement. Gee I’d love it if big companies were out there jousting windmills over principles but I’d never expect it in a million years, at any stage of capitalism or under any other economic system. The business of business is business.
As absolutely stupid as this is, it’s no different than changing the maps to show Denali rather than Mount McKinley. I don’t think you’re missing anything.
Is it no different, or is it different in a kind of huge obvious way? Denali is US property. The gulf ain’t.
Anglophones call Deutschland “Germany”, and we don’t even share a border with them.
Also meaningfully different, unless there is an executive order or it’s anglo-equivalent I’m unaware of. Many languages have a name for other countries that is different than the name those countries give themselves. Shall we use Germany itself as an example? How do you say South Africa in German? Südafrika, not Republic of South Africa, Republiek van Suid-Afrika, or any other the other 11 official languages from that country.
Okay, sure, but that’s just a translation of South and Africa and everyone knows Germans physically cannot resist compound words, so how about France?
It ain’t République française, or even Französische Republik. It’s Frankreich. This stuff generally happens organically and language develops slower than politics, as evidenced by Frankreich. That’s a lot different than this Executive Order. That’s an imperial move.
Google Maps shows the translation of Gulf of America in parentheses in all languages, everywhere. That’s like if Mexico renamed the gulf to La biblioteca and they changed it for everyone. That’s objectively wrong.
Fuck the C-suite execs🤘
I’m still going to call it the Gulf of Mexico🇲🇽Golfo de México
Gulf of Oil.
Alternately: Gulf of [Redacted]
gulf of helloooo, egg prices
Reported in Apple Maps as incorrect name. Won’t change anything, but it needed to be done.
Yeah me too. And a snide comment about supporting this douchebag. Made me feel better at least.
I wrote that “Gulf of America” is only used by an authoritarian regime and “not widely used.”
Please everyone do your part to report the incorrect information on google maps.
- On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Maps app.
- Navigate to the gulf of Mexico
- Tap Menu (your profile pictude) “Send Feedback” (way at the bottom) or “Help & Feedback”. Send product feedback.
I couldn’t find this “Send feedback” section
Could be called help & feedback all the way at the bottom after selection of your profile picture/bubble in the top left.
Reported a missing massage parlor named Tim Cook’s Orange Lips
It‘s the 9 dash line all over again. It‘s so petty and pathetic.
They do that shit even in other languages, where it is clearly and simply wrong.
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You’re in a bubble if this surprises you. You thought when Kamala sent Mark Cuban out to tell everyone how much Kamala loves big business & corporate interests that it meant they would protest the government under Trump? You don’t like the name change then next election don’t advocate for a non-primaried genocidal Dick Cheney supporter.
Et tu, Apple?
Not sure why anyone is surprised…they’re all bootlicking corporations that don’t want the mob boss to fuck with their mergers and/or investigate them for their various crimes.
There have been a lot of sycophantic comments floating around here the past 24 hours about how Apple was better because they didn’t change it when Google did. Now the same folks are saying well Apple had no choice. So weird to lick the boots of trillion dollar companies.
Because Apple people are in a cult.
Are you confident those are the same users?
Yes.
Y’know, this wouldn’t be so bad if it were renamed, “Gulf of the Americas” - eg, North America and South America. Added bonus: It’s not what Trump wanted so he’ll be pissed.
The reason why people are protesting the random changing of the name is the vast amount of work it generates. Websites, textbooks, maps, etc. will all have to be updated (and all this accumulates to a couple million dollars). By this logic, “Gulf of the Americas” is just as bad.
I see your point about generating work, but name changes happen - German shepherd dogs becoming “Alsatians” during WW2, Mt. McKinley, a bunch of things in the US. But if it’s going to be changed, let’s not make it what Trump wants. He probably can’t even find it on a map anyway.
Only in the US, and for mapping companies that now have to treat the US as a “sensitive” country.
The rest of the world can continue to call it by its internationally recognised name.
You know what… If anything should be named after this country, it’s the toxic brown bathtub that is The Gulf.
