Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Real Bev Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Magic Earth app Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 08:29:06 -0700 Organization: None, as usual Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <43f57d2eaaa4a40ba73c73b6891f94ceb72118e4@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 17:29:07 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="be51a3112093333f11c2da01bc177a5e"; logging-data="3533815"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+WmjhV4wnrQALpVlGSUXFdoAUpEPoYNsE=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0 Thunderbird/68.12.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:N0HXBug3RQlkXqszLMpeMugxDvQ= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2207 On 8/12/24 8:11 AM, AJL wrote: > On 8/12/2024 7:52 AM, The Real Bev wrote: > >> Google gives us something nice and then cripples it. > > I always liked Google for the speed trap and accident/road problems > ahead warnings. My theory was that likely more folks were using it and > thus more immediate and accurate warnings. I haven't traveled in recent > years so things may be different now... Until recently I haven't had a data plan so I was never aware of such things. The Garmin GPS was good about giving warnings about traffic jams after you were in one. -- Cheers, Bev "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury." -- Alexander Tyler (Unverified)