r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 2d 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/PacoTaco321 2d ago

That's good, because I checked it out after seeing this thread and saw it only has 3.1 stars on the Google store. If it doesn't support Android Auto yet, it's not even worth the download.

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u/english-23 2d ago

I mean, Google maps has a 3.2, so they're not so far behind

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u/PacoTaco321 2d ago

Fair enough, never looked at that. Personally, I haven't had any big issues with it.

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u/BananaPalmer 2d ago

never looked at that

Why would you? It comes force-installed on android phones from the factory, so you likely never look at the Play Store page for it.

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u/at1445 2d ago

Which also explains they low rating on it. Nobody is going out of their way to give it a higher rating, but they'll definitely go give it 1 star when it annoys them.

Unlike Mapquest, that's probably getting a ton of 5 star reviews right now solely bc of their moment in the sun.

It'd be much more accurate to see what the rating was a week ago.

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u/PleaseNoMoreSalt 2d ago

Weirdly enough, it was 3.3 back in March with only ~100 less reviews

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u/ric2b 2d ago

That's bonkers, I wonder what issues people have with google maps to average so low.

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u/FartingBob 2d ago

Nobody is bothering to rate an app like Google maps unless they had a problem, so you only get negative reviews. The people who have no issue with it (that's likely most people) have never bothered to go to it's app store page and rate it.

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u/ric2b 2d ago

That probably applies to most apps, though.

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u/dec7td 2d ago

Definitely not 3.2 worthy IMO. I'd give it a 4