Yes it is. I have tried 6 others and all of them give much much worse results in lots of cases.
It won’t matter if you search something popular, but otherwise you notice the difference.
Apple Maps is a complete joke in India for instance. I’ve heard of stories of people getting lost because they followed it, then they open Google Maps and get the actual directions. Apple Maps is also almost never updated here. Good luck finding new places, instead you will find places that were closed 2 years ago.
I like its new UI but the most crucial parts of the Map such as directions are so horribly wrong that it would frustrate you.
There’s no reporting institution that gets all reporting right. I surely disagree with lots of NYT reports but they do a better job than most others in explaining a story. I’d be happy to take recommendations though on where to get maybe better written briefings everyday.
Steven Levy's Hackers of course, but also his Crypto which is in some ways even better.
Michael A. Hiltzik's Dealers of Lightning about the heyday of computing research at Xerox PARC isn't universally praised (IIRC it's more or less Bob Metcalfe's version of the story) but it is very readable.
Bob Johnstone's We Were Burning, about the golden age of Japanese consumer electronics (wich also covers many events and actors in the US and UK).
David Kushner's Masters of Doom, about the heyday of Id Software.
The First Computers—History and Architectures is a more academic book, a selection of history papers, but it's still very readable. The Computer Pioneers: Pioneer Computers videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qundvme1Tik&list=PL14396C953... , presented by Gordon Moore himself, cover much of the same ground (it says little about the wartime Bletchley Park computers).
There probably are many, you have to name your poison and search for books about it.
Almost any really major technology or tech company likely has had a book or two written about it. Some examples off the top of my head:
The HP Way
The IBM Way
The New Magicians (Microsoft)
Heard of Fire in The Valley but not read it
The Soul of a New Machine
Hackers by Steven Levy
Sure to be many books about Unix
The Art of Unix Programming (more on tech, but a good amount of history)
There probably are more books about (in no particular order):
Dell, Sun Micro, Compaq, DEC, Novell, SCO, IBM, Wordstar, WordPerfect, Lotus (both company and tech), dBASE, Borland, Microsoft, AutoCAD, Adobe, HP, Silicon Graphics, Tandem, Ardent, Amdahl, Wang, Toshiba, Acer, Sony, Sinclair, Commodore, Atari, Acorn, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, Amazon, Netflix, Apple and a host of lesser-known or older companies, both in the US and elsewhere. The list above has non-US companies too.
It's fun to read about the history of our field. I keep doing a bit of it now and then.
The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks about the IBM 360. Some of the essays are more relevant today than others but worth at least selectively reading.
Heard great things about it and really want to read it. However, a warning to anyone thinking of getting this book on kindle: It's unreadable. It literally will not download on a kindle device. Just purchased it recently but will have to refund.
I had this same problem. I does work on the kindle app for desktop. Funny thing about the book, it was made using troff, one of the original unix utilities.
You are correct--it is pretty disappointing they haven't made it available on normal kindle devices.
That being said, I think you will be able to read it on the kindle player on a desktop computer. At least, that worked for me. I admit this is not ideal, but the book is fantastic and it was worth the extra effort.
He’s actually tried out a myriad of psychedelics and had a big role to play in synthesising psilocybin (I think he named that himself as well).
He talks about all of this in his book which is pleasantly surprising and very well written. Would recommend.
Try using Apple Music. That shit is 5 years behind Spotify in any UX measure.