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What's a big tech product that you actually find useful? (feddit.it)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by RandomVanGloboii@feddit.it to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Most of us in Lemmy know the importance of privacy and owning your devices in a big tech owned world (me included) but for once I thought to make the opposite question and ask if there are products by them that you actually use and enjoy them.

Important to say, I mean products you use even though there are alternatives, not monopolies like YouTube.

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[–] dan@upvote.au 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Google Maps is best-in-class IMO. Some other services come close but aren't quite as good.

[–] sillieidiot@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like it depends on where you are. I used to travel a lot for work and Google maps would be less reliable than Here maps. Kept taking me to unpaved roads that no one used or like dead-ends. It was even more useless in a lot of third world countries I went to. They are really good at navigating around traffic and their POI data is way bigger than any other mapping solution.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 1 year ago

HERE maps is pretty good... It's one of the only major competitors to Google Maps. I've used their APIs in the past.

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