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Yesterday Jonathan Blow was complaining about some Maps app on his Twitter feed, but not sure if it was Google Maps or another product. I do agree Google Maps
by wsc981 3y ago
Yesterday Jonathan Blow was complaining about some Maps app on his Twitter feed, but not sure if it was Google Maps or another product.
I do agree Google Maps can be annoying to use. But other Google products get more annoying to use as time goes on as well. I have huge annoyances with Gmail and Google Calendar. This in context of my iPhone SE (which, I guess, has a "small" screen size, so perhaps related to my issues).
- Every single time I visit the Gmail login page, it always tries to upsell me to use the freaking app, that I don't want to use.
- At least on my phone screen, the button to dismiss the upsell page is covered by other UI elements. Only way to get rid of it, is to refresh the page. Not sure if this is a dark pattern to nudge people towards the app.
- I have multiple Gmail accounts (2 company accounts from different companies, my own company account, a private account and a spam mail account). Sometimes I am logged into one Gmail account and want to see the calendar for another account. It's very hard to use the top right button to switch accounts. Inside web-based calendar app almost impossible.
And an annoyance I have in general these days, with many web-based apps, is the constant security crap to deal with (2FA stuff mainly).
... I long for a simpler web like we had 10-15 years ago ...
- Cyberdog 3y agoWhy not just use the Mail app to access your Gmail account and bypass the inferior web interface altogether?
- wsc981 3y agoActually, I use the Mail app for a single email account (my own private email). I just don't want to add all company email addresses to the Mail app. This way I have a better separation between work and private stuff. As in: when I check email in the Mail app, I am not confronted with work stuff.
- whitten 3y agoSome of us think that the mail app is the inferior. Search on the app uses my phone’s cpu. search on the web site uses their cpu. Guess which is faster ?
- zelos 3y ago- At least on my phone screen, the button to dismiss the upsell page is covered by other UI elements. I find this to be incredibly common on so many sites on mobile. Cookie popups or "subscribe to our newsletter" popups where the dismiss button is either missing, hidden or rendered off the bottom of the screen, with no ability to scroll. I don't get how it ships. Don't the site owners notice a massive increase in vistor bounce rate?