I stopped updating the 2 remaning Google applications on my phone - apart from the damned play services, let's not even go there -: maps and translate. Maps is

I stopped updating the 2 remaning Google applications on my phone - apart from the damned play services, let's not even go there -: maps and translate. Maps is at 8.4.1[^1]. Before 9, it all worked reasonably, it wasn't giving me the creepy "Are you at ?" push notification, it all just worked. Yes, it's most probably still tracking me, but at least it not _that_ annoying as the new ones. Translate is at 3.0.12[^2]. v4 was the "let's use AI". What happened in reality: offline translation, english to chinese, v3, 2014: people more or less understood after looking at it long enough. v4, 2016: blank stares at the text, then they gave us Baidu translate. Comparing the 3 things - v3, v4, baidu - v3 and baidu had some resemblance, , v4 was something completely unrelated. I've seen software "evolving" for 25+ years now, and I'm pretty certain each and every piece of it has a pinnacle, when functionality meets (learnable) usability. After that it's first too many functions, than dumped down interface with not enough functions, then "AI" and non-functioning functionality. There's nearly never a OK, let's take a step back, which is so desperately needed. As a result, I decided to stop updating some of my software, because it won't get any better for a very long while. [^1]: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/maps/maps-8-4-1-5-release/ https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/maps/maps-8-4-1-5-r... [^2]: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/translate/translate-3-0-12-3-release/ https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/translate/translate...