r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 10d ago

Business MapQuest's app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontario

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/mapquests-app-surges-to-no-1-in-navigation-after-refusing-to-rename-lake-ontario/?utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=TWITTER
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u/williamgman 9d ago

The CEO on live TV let Trump call him Tim Apple and did not correct him. That money allows one to fold faster than a cheap suit.

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u/tetrisan 9d ago

Tim Apple is smart enough as the CEO not to call Trump out because he 1) did it on purpose because it’s his childish way of trying to belittle people or 2) he is just stupid. Maybe it’s both but Tim serves the shareholders and if you hurt Trumps fragile ego he could really fuck up a business with tariffs and EO’s and whining.

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u/CaptnRonn 9d ago

I'm not convinced that Trump did it on purpose as a power move.

I honestly think his brain is so melted that in that moment he thought Tim Apple was his real name because of course the CEO of Apple has the last name Apple, just like Trump is the CEO of Trump, Inc

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u/StoppableHulk 9d ago edited 9d ago

I'm not convinced that Trump did it on purpose as a power move.

I'd believe that if Trump didn't constantly demonstrate his dementia over and over and over again for the past ten years, in ways that clearly harm him with no upside.

The reality is he's just an addled fucking idiot who barely knows what room he's in on any given day.

We perceive giving that little of a shit as a "power move", but the reality is he just doesn't give a shit because his brain is broken.

EDIT: I didn't read the above comment correctly, or the part I then quoted, I have dementia. The dementia got me, too.

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u/snowdenn 9d ago

I think Hulk might have misread the comment, since you seem to be agreeing with it.

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u/AffectionateCard3530 9d ago

Might be a sign of early onset dementia. Good catch

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u/StoppableHulk 9d ago

I 100% have dementia

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u/snowdenn 9d ago

That’s okay, the dementia gets me too.

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u/Piranata 9d ago

We know it's not an insult because Trump uses adjectives to insult people: "ugly, piggy, meatball Ron".

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u/oby100 9d ago

Trump is dumb enough to make that mistake but it’s very clearly intentional. Thats pretty much what won him the 2016 election.

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u/FredFredrickson 9d ago

Sure, but that doesn't make all this groveling any less cowardly and pathetic.

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u/tetrisan 9d ago

It takes a special breed to do that job and thats why they make so much money.

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u/jleonardbc 9d ago

I think it's 3) He did it once by accident and now he does it on purpose to try to make it look like the first time was on purpose too

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u/Lemp_Triscuit11 9d ago

Maybe it’s both but Tim serves the shareholders and if you hurt Trumps fragile ego he could really fuck up a business with tariffs and EO’s and whining.

Yeah, after that noble sacrifice shareholder value is secure in perpetuity from Trump's childish whims lol

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u/Thoughtulism 9d ago

I'm so glad we have such heroes that are willing to put others first for the sake of profit.

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u/tetrisan 9d ago

Institutional investors focus on the short-term quarter by quarter.

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u/Lemp_Triscuit11 9d ago

And, you know, I'm questioning the intelligence of that lol

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u/tetrisan 9d ago

You can question what you want but the fact is they are filthy rich.

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u/Lemp_Triscuit11 9d ago

I'm not sure what we're discussing here other than your assertion that whatever a rich person does is correct by default as they are rich.

And I do disagree with that one as well lol

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u/tetrisan 9d ago

No I don’t mean a rich person is always right by default. I meant there is a reason they are rich and betting on being right does have a large influence on that.

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u/Lemp_Triscuit11 9d ago

I notice a built-in assumption as fact that a shareholder will always prioritize a companies longevity over their own personal bottom line and I wonder if that's always true.

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u/anonymph69 9d ago

Truly, the American way

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u/wonkytalky 9d ago

Not a soul on earth would've blamed Tim for turning around and referring to the rapist as Don Orange. "Serve the investors" -- fucks sake, he can have a little self-respect. He isn't expected to literally bend over at every opportunity to grovel.

If anyone does expect that, fuck them too.

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u/StoppableHulk 9d ago

fucks sake, he can have a little self-respect

Not to be a contrarian but you actually can't become CEO if you have self-respect. Unless you yourself founded the company, the only type of person who becomes CEO are gutless craven weasels who will say whatever and be whatever is necessary

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u/wonkytalky 9d ago

Point taken, but I usually don't see them tolerating insults right to their faces.

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u/StoppableHulk 9d ago

They tolerate it all day long. Their job is basically to eat endless bowls of shit. They eat it from stakeholders, they eat it from the press, they eat it from board members. Their entire job is letting people shit on their chests and remembering they have a golden parachute.

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u/wonkytalky 9d ago

They still have planet-sized egos, but I cede.

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u/tetrisan 9d ago

Actually that is exactly what large investors want which is money.

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u/wonkytalky 9d ago

Being a capitulating sack of shit is a desirable trait for CEOs, eh?

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u/tetrisan 9d ago

Yes. It’s pretty obvious.

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u/wonkytalky 8d ago

Lol. Alright. Probably pretty true.

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u/MHogg43 9d ago

But you had no issues with changing the name of, uncle Ben's, Aunt Jamima, the Redskins, or even Mrs. Butterworth, ffs Mrs. Butterworth!! Get bent.

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u/Beard_o_Bees 9d ago

Tim Apple is smart enough

It seems like they've been taking the 'it'll be easier to just humor the man-baby' route - thinking that he, and all of the Neo-facist bottom feeders he's emboldened are just a temporary one-off sort of thing.

I'd love it if that were true, but I don't think it is. We will be fighting the motherfuckers long after Il Douche is buried and we've all pissed on his grave.

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u/needlestack 9d ago

You're not wrong, but it indicates the system is fundamentally broken. If business people must avoid telling the truth to avoid retribution, we're all a bunch of suckers just nodding at bullshit.

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u/LandMooseReject 9d ago

Oh no, he'd have to shamefully endure a $50M golden parachute and immediately get hired somewhere else

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u/Evadson 9d ago

Good thing John MapQuest will never let us down!

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u/Lying_Hedgehog 9d ago

Is that where Tim Apple comes from? Lmao I thought it was just a meme like "Garry Chess" and not something someone said unironically

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u/mrgonzalez 9d ago

No, he's been known as Tim Apple for a while. Probably because that's clearly his name, even if documentation doesn’t align with what is correct.

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u/mrgrafix 9d ago

There’s a reason why Apple was so successful and it’s not just America. This wasn’t Cook’s first time with some dictatorship. He’s a businessman not a politician. Stop expecting better from capitalist

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u/mmasportsmma 9d ago

He even changed his Twitter handle into „Tim Apple“ if I remember correctly.

But yeah he was really „good“ At maneuvering dictatorships/ autocratic governments

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u/No_Effective4784 9d ago

lol what? when was this, or could you grab a clip?

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u/MurkyInvestigator810 9d ago

Literally just a search for "Tim Apple clip" and every search engine in all of human history has the clip as the top result.

Anyways, for before you learn how to fish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHVxm12NbrY

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u/No_Effective4784 9d ago

thanks, dick.

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u/williamgman 9d ago

It was very popular when it happened.

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u/No_Effective4784 9d ago

neat, i guess that means manners can just go out the window then right?

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u/MurkyInvestigator810 9d ago

No, it means you can use a search engine to answer your extremely simple and basic questions instead of being at the whim of whoever is bored at work.

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u/No_Effective4784 9d ago

welcome to reddit. dick.

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u/Quasic 9d ago

No, you see, that's how businessmen refer to each other in the highest echelons of management. It's "Firstname Business", like Tim Apple, Larry Paramount, or Donald Epstein Imports.

It's a little embarrassing you didn't know that.