Everybody on the Maps team should be removed, and replaced with designers who actually use the app for travel. They added superfluous animations that delay the app's response time, they added a superfluous bird's-eye "starting" view when you launch a trip, so you're better off looking out your car window than at the app to tell which direction you're supposed to go, and they added superfluous "smart" suggestions for things like parking near destinations that not only take up screen space and distract from the map, but also re-orient the map to lock at north (so if I'm driving east, I glance at the phone and not only am I seeing an advertisement for parking that I don't need, the map is suddenly not oriented in my direction of travel until I dismiss the parking suggestion).įive years ago I would have told you that nothing would ever beat the standard that Google Maps had set today I only use it when I need Google's search function, like to find a McDonald's nearby if I have to use the bathroom. I drive for one of the rideshare companies, and about a year ago Google utterly broke Google Maps for the purpose of using it as real-time navigation. It feels like entirely different teams are given the tasks. It's pretty amazing how right they get their base products and how wrong they get their updates.
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