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Personally, I've been really annoyed with the slow, unresponsive Google Maps on my phone when my reception gets a little bad. I'd definitely like to try compari
by arayh 8y ago
Personally, I've been really annoyed with the slow, unresponsive Google Maps on my phone when my reception gets a little bad. I'd definitely like to try comparing this against Google Maps with the same poor connection (packet loss). The 25kb compared to 200kb for Google Maps makes a huge difference! Actual rendering speed seems a lot faster as well, which is another huge plus on my dated smartphone.
- freehunter 8y agoI'm not a web purist who looks for the most minimal libraries and works overtime to minimize my JS and HTML and CSS, but there is certainly something to be said about the old mobile web vs the new mobile web. I remember in 2006/2007 streaming YouTube videos on an EVDO mobile connection. Meanwhile these days unless my phone says LTE, Facebook won't even load my news feed. Google Maps seems to be the worst, even on my recent Macbook Pro and 60mbps Internet, scrolling feels like I'm pushing heavy furniture across an unfinished concrete floor. I can almost feel it scratching and scraping and resisting every attempt to pan left or right. In the era of "mobile first" and PWAs and all that, how is it that we require a rock solid Internet connection and a super fast processor with gobs of RAM just to get a shitty experience on the web? And if either one of those drops in the slightest, you're locked out solid.
- burtmacklin 8y agoamen. the real world is being pretty stubborn about flakey and slow internet, despite what those living in the SV microcosm experience...
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- Nition 8y agoI use Nokia HERE WeGo. GPS navigation, and you can download the whole country you live in and store it offline. Stored as vector data so it isn't too huge. No mobile data connection needed, wherever you go.