The solution, as it is with most consumer welfare issues, is more competition.
In this case the means of getting more competition is aggressive anti-trust enforcement. There were many hopeful signs of this with the previous administration but the current one….yikes.
Maybe this gets better in 2029, in the mean time more enshittification will ensue.
Yes. Competition, anti-trust, along with the issues Louis Rossmann speaks about with Sec 1201 of the DMCA and other right to repair legislation would or ideally should put a dent in the enshittification schemes of these companies abusing their paying users.
Competition only fixes so much because there are other things too.
That’s disappointing. I don’t navigate a whole lot, but Apple maps usually did the job admirably and I still trust it more than GMaps.