MapQuest Jumps To Top Of App Store After Refusing To Rename ‘Lake Ontario’ | The Onion
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MapQuest — yes, that MapQuest — rockets to the top of the App Store by refusing to rename Lake Ontario to 'Lake America,' which is apparently the hill a dying 2004 web portal has chosen to die on. The readers-response section somehow makes it weirder, with one commenter's drowned children stealing the entire show.
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MapQuest's heroic stand proves that some things are worth fighting for, even if it takes 47 minutes to calculate the route to justice.
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