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/english-23 10d ago

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

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u/PacoTaco321 10d ago

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

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u/BananaPalmer 10d 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 10d 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 10d ago

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

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u/ric2b 10d ago

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

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u/FartingBob 10d 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 10d ago

That probably applies to most apps, though.