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Re:A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It... by derekp7 on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @10:43PM (#8300606)
Here's an example: recently I wanted to get a route around a traffic jam. So, I tried to tell Google Now (on my Nexus 4) to "navigate to work". All of a sudden they took this feature away -- the only thing that comes up is a Google search trying to answer why this doesn't work. And nothing conclusive -- some people are having issues, others not. Android / Nexus was pretty good, but they keep on fixing it further till it's getting more and more broken.
Re:A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It... by 72deluxe on Thursday September 11, 2014 @04:52AM (#8301537)
Yes! They "fix" things that don't need fixing. Like their old Android Maps application - how does typing "OK Maps" logically mean you want to save offline maps? Why remove a menu item?

I keep the old one on my phone and resist installing the new one. Also, Google Local has gone?

That's the problem with cloud services I suppose, but at least if they had the decency to keep cloud services going whilst there were obvious users of them (without breaking things), that'd be appreciated. I mean, how long has MobileMe been going for OSX?

Re:A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It... by freehunter on Thursday September 11, 2014 @09:49AM (#8302510)
Really irritates me that I've put my home address (or an address very close to my home) in Google Maps, explicitly marked as home, but I can't type "home" as a destination. I have to start typing the address, then Google says "oh, you mean your home? Yeah I can do that".
Re:A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It... by fphhotchips on Thursday September 11, 2014 @07:17AM (#8301882)
And in maps you can't just type "Location to Location" anymore, either.