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This feels a bit petty but a huge part of why I use Apple Maps over GMaps now is just the performance. GMaps is sluggish and can't reliably hit 60Hz even on bra
by potatolicious 4y ago
This feels a bit petty but a huge part of why I use Apple Maps over GMaps now is just the performance. GMaps is sluggish and can't reliably hit 60Hz even on brand new hardware.
We have space-age CPUs and GPUs in our pockets that are basically supercomputers! They are faster than most laptops! But somehow Apple Maps scrolls and zooms like butter but Google Maps drops frames all over the floor and makes the whole experience Powerpoint-like.
It feels like Google Maps has spent the last few years packing a kitchen sink's worth of features into itself (much of which seems of dubious utility) but at the same time completely lost the plot on really basic fundamentals like whether or not their renderer can maintain 60Hz on an iPhone 13 Pro, or whether their transit overlays continue to generate illegible lines.
- FireBeyond 4y agoOn macOS with a gigabit connection, I consistently get map/tile issues in Apple maps that will just not load, even if I scroll or zoom. Huge swathes of gray. And then zooming in is entirely glitchy (and this is on a 2019 Mac Pro with a W5700X GPU).