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Re:The day I discovered that Apple Maps is Kind of Good now by dougmwne on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @06:47PM (#31333659)
Your feedback is all related to directions, but I have also found Google Maps to have an increasingly cluttered and unfriendly UI just for browsing and searching maps on mobile. Everything seems to be too many taps away and basic use cases like looking for the nearest restaurant are quite frustrating. Switching to Apple Maps was like the first day of spring.

Google as an overall company seems to have jumped the shark some years ago and the slow decline is starting to become apparent through many of their products, search included.

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Re:The day I discovered that Apple Maps is Kind of Good now by solraph on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @07:30PM (#31333987)
I strongly suspect that problem is that Google Maps (and various other Google products) were effectively "done"[0] a few years ago, but the team needs to justify it's existence somehow, so product managers and engineers are literally just changing things to have something to do.

[0] With the caveat that there's no doubt a massive backlog of missing backend data like bike lanes and public transport data that still needs to be filled in.

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