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7mo ago

Apple Maps launches on the web to challenge Google Maps

techcrunch.com Apple Maps launches on the web to challenge Google Maps | TechCrunch

Apple Maps is now available on the web via a public beta, which means you can now access the service directly from your browser.

Apple Maps launches on the web to challenge Google Maps | TechCrunch

https://beta.maps.apple.com/

It doesn’t seem to support Firefox, or not yet at least.
Maps on the web is compatible with these web browsers

On your Mac or iPad
Safari
Edge
Chrome
On your Windows PC
Edge
Chrome

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Apple Maps launches on the web to challenge Google Maps

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7mo ago

Apple Maps launches on the web to challenge Google Maps

techcrunch.com /2024/07/24/apple-maps-launches-on-the-web-to-challenge-google-maps/

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Not available on Firefox. Nope!
- I tried, User agent switcher works miracles. Just sayin'

That awkward moment when it doesn’t support iPhone Safari…
- Kinda makes sense. Why support safari on iOS when it’s already installed (by default)

Many people have had easy success with Firefox by spoofing a “Chrome on Windows” user agent; you can use an extension like this one to do so.
- Seems easier to just not use Apple Maps tbh
  
  true. Also: not commenting is easier than commenting
- Apple Maps online already existed on DDG and has broad support
- go to about:config
  type general.useragent.override
  if the key doesn't exist yet, select the String option and click + button
  enter the useragent, eg. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 for Chrome/Windows
  
  Don't do this. It will override the user agent for every site you visit which will cause a lot of problems, like failing most captchas and breaking a lot of websites.
  You should use an extension (like this one) to change UA on a per site basis instead.

How timely of them.

My browser isn’t supported (DDG). But I’m on an iPhone, and every browser is required to use WebKit—so every browser is literally safari. Lame.
Edit: oh, maybe it’s no phones.
- Apple Maps online already existed on DDG and has broad support

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