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Not just finance. Compare Google Street View with Apple's "look around" feature. Night and day. To be fair I haven't looked at street view recently, and Google
by natch 7y ago
Not just finance.
Compare Google Street View with Apple's "look around" feature. Night and day. To be fair I haven't looked at street view recently, and Google's coverage is better for now.
Or Gmail spam filtering... I can't even begin to fathom what they are thinking, whoever is in charge of that. I mean really... they have the privilege of working at Google? And... really, that's the level of effort and quality they give us, after 20 years of time with the problem?
Yes I know it can be a hard problem, and an arms race, but the level to which they are utterly falling down with good signals in the data, like the fact that I explicitly signed up for and sometimes read and reply to a mailing list, is mind boggling.
- UweSchmidt 7y agoWith Google in particular, I feel like you can tell when a new lead takes over a product. I imagine leading a product is a career move at Google, people move on and new folks take over, diluting the original vision of simplicity, functionality and magic of early Google products. In Google Maps on Android, the status bar is now transparent, and important information like clock, battery status, connection quality and incoming messages are now drawn on top of the map. I'm sure that looks great in a presentation but now those little icons have little, and varying contrast and are hard to decipher. In Youtube in the browser, I have autoplay disabled. Every time I log into Youtube (after a reboot), autoplay is enabled again.