[hnbear]

"It could have overwhelmed cell towers, toppling New York City’s cell service and preventing every Manhattan resident from accessing Google Maps."

Seems odd that the most important use they can highlight for cell service in NYC is accessing Google Maps. Not accessing 911, not some other vital use of cell service, but Google Maps.

NYC is full of free Wifi all over the place. So many McDs, Starbucks, and other restaurants and sites you can get Google Maps anywhere.

[Scoundreller]

I’ve lived through enough cellular downtimes to have Google offline maps