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		thekid314 on July 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DuckDuckGo Expands Use of Apple Maps I'd second this, Apple Maps is still useless in Egypt and most of Africa. There is plenty of room for these tech companies to plow some of their profits into data sets from outside San Francisco.

akmarinov on July 17, 2019 [–]

As an Apple fanboy - most of Apple's things are severely gimped outside of USA/Canada/Western Europe/China.

Not a lot of localization, no voice control in different languages, maps suck, Google is well ahead of them in that regard.

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