Just another junky app designed by stupids
It would be too obvious and too logical to put a single button on the map that opens to a list of text descriptions of actions that may be taken. Nope. That would be too obvious and too logical. Instead, scatter a bunch of mysterious icons all around the map and allow the user to sort it out through perpetual trial and error. Google does not understand the concept of intuitiveness, although in that respect they arent different from Apple.
in both companies, the lead developers evidently design software while tripping on LSD. When trying to plan a route, you should be able to touch where you want the pushpin to be located. It wont move. Theres an X at the bottom of it, which leads you to believe that you might be able to delete it and replace it with a new one. Since you have to guess how it works, this guess is as logical as any, but its the wrong guess. If you think real hard to think of other ways it might possibly work, you might guess that you should move the map so that the fixed pushpin is over the spot you want to select and then touch the confirmation button at the lower edge. You get zero confirmation that this is correct, at least not when you do it. ZERO confirmation. The address does not appear in the address box for the starting point. But, if you proceed on blind faith to see if it will work if you do likewise for the destination, eventually you discover that both addresses populate the respective text boxes and the route is obtained. But why would any user be inclined to make this guess and stay with it all the way without receiving any confirmation that youre doing the right thing until the very end? Who writes software like this? Inexperienced amateurs and old programmers who design software while high on LSD. If I were the lead programmer for the team responsible for this, I would tell them to try harder to THINK, and that the next person who does something that is manifestly stupid or illogical will be fired.
Kaiser Soze is my nickname but they say someone else is using it. about
Google Maps, v4.37