On people's personal electronic gadgets and home appliances, especially maps on smartphones, if I am driving somewhere and I need to glance at my map to see something pertenant to my driving I don't want advertising getting in the way,

advertisers already own TV and Broadcast radio, billboards in cities and highways, I think the advertising business need to learn their boundaries because they keep pushing advertising where it does not belong

They have all that money allowcated to them so they have work extra hard to embezzle all that money somehow so they come up with all this impossible to achieve projects as shells to cancel later so it looks good on the accountants books

We've noticed that since the mid 1990s

NEVER trust big tech to keep your data
(if you need to keep it top secret)

more free movies & music for the poor
I encourage the piracy of movies & music & software, the only people that will bother to pirate that stuff is poor because people with disposable income will just buy it and the poor should not be making the rich richer

I been all over the southwest USA and plenty of places with no cellular coverage and the only map on my phone that worked was organic maps

I say take the cash and open a new company under different management and build more offshore wind turbines, now that you have a billion.

Doesn't matter if you use online maps or downloaded offline maps you still need gps, what if you were way out where cellular data was not available then a downloaded map would be beneficial

I am sure if you were starving you could pick a few kernels of corn out of a turd too

Install Organic Maps, download only what you need for your locale and Organic Maps even works offline so if you lose cellular data it will still work

you know, living is harmful to your life, every day is getting you closer to death. Eating many foods is harmful, drinking many things, breathing the air in many parts of the world and during different weather conditions. Having sex may be harmful, it can degrade your quality of life in the long term.

There are millions of harmful things, you will die and everyone else as well. I am not proposing for everyone to do everything, I am saying - if you enjoy it, don't allow people to dictate to you, do it.

you do understand we live only once, what's wrong with porn, gambling and drugs? Enjoy it if you want it.

is that a serious comment?

ever heard of team drivers? they exist to avoid sitting idle for half a day due to regulations.

We build many professional Android and iOS apps for the trucking, logistics, shipping and related industries. It is a complete disaster, what Android app store has become over the 11 years we have been dealing with them. Things are only getting worse, more complicated, longer, more expensive. I don't know what they have achieved with this but they haven't made it safer.