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The IRS are involved, too.

As is Elon Musk.

And President Trump.

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One Wall Street insider says banks should be 'scared s**tless'.

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It's been approved in 50 states already.

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DAILY NEWS

MapQuest Is Now the #1 App on the App Store — Because It Refused to Rename Lake Ontario

In one of the most unexpected viral marketing moments of the year, MapQuest — the mapping service that was the dominant navigation tool of the early 2000s before being largely displaced by Google Maps and Apple Maps — has rocketed to the top of the Apple App Store and Google Play Store rankings after the company publicly announced it will not rename Lake Ontario to "Lake America" on its maps. The surge in downloads reflects a cultural backlash to the executive order that has made downloading a specific mapping app into a political statement.

MapQuest is #1 on the App Store after refusing to change Lake Ontario's name, according to CNN's live homepage coverage. The company's decision to publicly maintain "Lake Ontario" rather than comply with the Interior Department's Board on Geographic Names directive — which compelled Google Maps to rename the U.S. portion of the lake — has been celebrated on social media as a form of corporate civil disobedience against the renaming executive order. Canadians, Americans who oppose the renaming, and anyone who objects to geographic naming being used as a diplomatic weapon have responded by downloading MapQuest in numbers that have not been seen since the service's peak years in the early 2000s.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

MapQuest reached #1 on the Apple App Store after publicly refusing to rename Lake Ontario to "Lake America," turning corporate non-compliance with a presidential geographic naming directive into a viral marketing moment that has revived a service largely considered obsolete.
The surge reflects a cultural backlash to the Lake Ontario renaming executive order that has made downloading a specific mapping app into a political statement, with Canadians, Americans, and international users participating in what amounts to a consumer protest movement.
Google's compliance with the Interior Department's directive — updating Google Maps with "Lake America" for the U.S. portion — has created a visible competitive consequence, with users who object to that compliance now downloading a competitor that has publicly refused.

The irony of MapQuest's sudden relevance is complete: a service that was largely considered obsolete has found a second life by refusing to participate in a government naming directive that its technologically superior competitor complied with. The episode illustrates how political controversies can produce commercial outcomes that have nothing to do with product quality — and how the renaming of Lake Ontario has generated a cultural response that neither the administration nor MapQuest could have anticipated.

For Google, whose compliance with the Lake Ontario rename has been covered critically in the same news cycle, the MapQuest surge creates a visible competitive consequence: users who object to Google Maps' compliance with government geographic naming directives now have a widely-covered alternative to switch to.

SOURCE:

"MapQuest is No. 1 on the App Store after refusing to change Lake Ontario's name" — CNN
"Google Maps changes Lake Ontario to 'Lake America'" — NBC News

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