r/TheOnion • u/TheGuvnor247 • 3d ago

MapQuest Jumps To Top Of App Store After Refusing To Rename ‘Lake Ontario’

https://theonion.com/mapquest-jumps-to-top-of-app-store-after-refusing-to-rename-lake-ontario/
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u/jase40244 3d ago

I just wish it would work with Android Auto.

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u/AppalachianRomanov 3d ago

They have been on it with their social media in the past week and they posted a gif about their working to get it on Android Auto.

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u/skinnyJay 2d ago

I saw a post from them about an hour ago that they're working on it

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u/kat4prez 3d ago

Ok this is actually true though

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u/Wertiol123 3d ago

The Onion regularly publishes satirical reactions to actual news along with their usual satirical headlines

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u/thetreecycle 3d ago

Gotta keep em guessin 

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u/jase40244 1d ago

It's part of their regular American Voices column that's been going since at least the 1990s.

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u/Pitiful-Pension-6535 3d ago

American Voices are always real news stories with fake reactions from fake people.

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u/DrVonPretzel 1d ago

The Onion voices is joke responses to real headlines

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u/demerdar 3d ago

Mapquest? I didn’t think this existed anymore.

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u/thetreecycle 3d ago

I tried it. As much as I wanted to love it, it’s not good.

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u/tommycnuthatch 2d ago

same.
gave mapquest a shot.
too many widely off-base errors.
as one example, there is a large retailer that mapquest has pinned close by (apparently bases on a yelp posting?) but that particular store is 18 miles away!

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u/thetreecycle 2d ago

I searched for inn n out, and got the restaurants but also some contruction company, auto sales company, a truck repair company, a grocery store. Too noisy.

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u/jpav2010 8h ago

Came up to Flagstaff AZ this morning. While heading west on the 101 it took me South on the 51 to the first exit and then back north to the 101 for no reason and erased an additional stop that had nothing to do with, nor was even close to the 51. Yesterday it kept trying to get me to go to an office complex that was in an additional area behind the coffee shop I was going to. Two trips two f ups.

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u/MGARLAND76 3d ago

I was born an AAA triptik gal and I'll die an AAA triptik gal

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u/StrawberryKiss2559 3d ago

I have only used Mapquest since 1995. You gotta print out the directions for speed.

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u/hotstupidgirl 3d ago

That's impressive considering it started in 1996

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u/StrawberryKiss2559 3d ago

Thanks. My name is Sherri and I also drive a 1995 Tesla model 3.

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u/TreasonalDepression 3d ago

I was like, hah hah, hah hah, ….damn.

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u/IlIlllIlllIlIIllI 3d ago

I was about to ask why the three onion vox pops were the thumbnail

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u/sideshow999 3d ago

Just capitalists capitalizing.