MS NOW's Jonathan Capehart talks to Ali Velshi about new reporting that downloads for the MapQuest app "surged" after it stood up to Donald Trump and refused to change the name of Lake Ontario to "Lake America."
Jen Psaki salutes MapQuest, the unlikely resistance hero that refused to go along with Donald Trump’s executive order renaming 'Lake Ontario’ to ‘Lake America.’
MapQuest is making an unexpected comeback after defying Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario to "Lake America." MapQuest General Manager Doug Berger told Erin Burnett that usage is "through the roof," with downloads surging to more than 1.5 million. "It was not intended to be a political stance...it's fun that we're talking about geography," Berger added.
The most popular iPhone app in the US is one that few people have thought about since dial-up internet: MapQuest. The mapping service is making a comeback on US App Stores after refusing to change Lake Ontario’s name, following President Donald Trump’s executive order rebranding it as Lake America. 0:00 Why is MapQuest surging after denying Trump's request? 4:17 How unpopular is the name change? 7:15 What does Trump gain from this? Watch 24/7 live news with CNN Headlines: https://bit.ly/4eIvlTr #Trump #Apple #News
MapQuest is seeing a surge in downloads after refusing to adopt President Donald Trump's "Lake America" name change.
Apple has changed the label on Lake Ontario to "Lake America ," according to an Axios review of Apple Maps on Tuesday afternoon. Why it matters: Apple is the second major digital map provider to make the switch. Google did so over the weekend — at least for those in the United States. Driving the news: President Trump had reportedly asked Apple to make the switch last week, Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told Fox Business on Monday. - Apple's decision comes less than a week after the president's executive order to rename the body of water along the U.S.-Canada border. - The company also eventually changed the Gulf of Mexico to "Gulf of America " and Mount Denali to Mount McKinley last year when Trump renamed those…
A mapping app that most Americans forgot existed a decade ago just rocketed to the top of the Apple App Store, all because it refused to rename Lake Ontario on its maps after President Trump's executive order. MapQuest, the Denver-based navigation service launched in 1996, posted three words on social media the same day Trump […] The post MapQuest rides Lake Ontario defiance to No. 1 on the App Store appeared first on American Almanac .
A mapping app that most Americans forgot existed a decade ago just rocketed to the top of the Apple App Store, all because it refused to rename Lake Ontario on its maps after President Trump's executive order. MapQuest, the Denver-based navigation service launched in 1996, posted three words on social media the same day Trump signed the order on Aug. 27: "We're not changing it." Within days, hundreds of thousands of users downloaded the app, pushing it past ChatGPT for the No. 1 free spot on Apple's platform. Usage surged to roughly fifty times its normal rate, the company said in a Monday press release. The episode is a small but telling snapshot of how a culture-war flashpoint, in this case, a presidential directive to rebrand a body…Open
As of Tuesday, the 30-year-old navigation tool was Apple’s No. 1 free app after the company rebuffed an executive order renaming the Great Lake.
President Trump 's order to rename Lake Ontario to "Lake America" is stirring up more controversy, as tech companies decide whether to comply or not. The big picture: Google and other digital map providers—like MapQuest and Apple—have split on whether to accept the name change or keep Lake Ontario on their maps. Driving the news: An Axios review of Google and Apple Maps on Sunday showed Google now says "Lake America" on mobile and desktop, while Apple Maps says Lake Ontario. - Google said Saturday that it had changed the maps in accordance with updates from the U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and updated Google Maps "to reflect name changes in official government sources." Zoom out: Google's update means that users…