Czech Republic is one of the few countries where Google has a meaningful local competitor, Seznam, for it's major services and maps is the service where I'm most glad for that. All the shortcomings from the article are so much more obvious and painful when you have an alternative that does it right. I wondered for a long time how Google can have such a bad product, like I literally can't recognize a place I know perfectly on the screen so I need to "search" for it so Google zooms into some indistinctive bland colored area for me. And I've realized that's exactly the point, that's the prime example of enshitification. Tool that works so bad that you think you need it more. I'm so glad for mapy.cz and that statement from the article, that I can choose only Google or Apple maps, is not true for me.
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