Silicon Valley - "It's Apple Maps bad"

Damesh Kwanti · 213.6K views · 2015-05-18 · 1:46

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Overview

A short clip from HBO's Silicon Valley in which a focus group savages a product by calling it as bad as Apple Maps. It satirizes tech product launches.

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Used as a joke when threads discuss Apple Maps, botched launches or bad UI.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2018–2025

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DonHopkins · 2025-05 · Joke / meme
Who else feels this product is "stupid"? Alan? Lisa? Josh? Yana? Katy? And did it "piss off" anyone else? Alan? Lisa? Josh? Yana? Katy? And who else felt this product is "messed up"? Alan? Lisa? Josh? Yana? Katy? [VIDEO]
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DonHopkins · 2024-09 · Criticism
[LINK] Time Machine's "Floating Time Tunnel" user interface for browsing backups and restoring files is such a useless pretentious piece of shit. I DO NOT CARE for it taking over the entire screen with its idiotic animation, that prevents me from browsing current Finder folders at the same time or DOING ANYTHING ELSE like looking at a list of files I want to retrieve on the same screen. [LINK] It even sadistically blacks out every other connected display, and disables Alt-Tab, as if it was so fucking important that it had to lock you out of the rest of your system while you use it. You can't just quickly Alt-Tab to flip back to another app to check something before deciding which file to restore and then Alt-Tab back to where you were. No, that would be too easy, and you'd miss out on all that great full screen animation. It not only takes a long time to start up and play its opening animations, but when you cancel it, it SLOWLY animates and cross fades back to the starting place, so you LOSE the time and location context that you laboriously browsed to, and then you have to take even more time and effort to get back to where you just were. It was designed by a bunch of newly graduated Trump University graphics designers on cocaine, with absolutely NO knowledge or care in the world about usability or ergonomics or usefulness, who only wanted to have something flashy and shiny to buff up their portfolios and blog about, and now we're all STUCK with it, at our peril. Crucial sy
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choppaface · 2024-03 · Joke / meme
Remember when "Apple Maps Bad" was catastrophic? [VIDEO] Then Uber happened, in particular greyballing. Then FTX happened. Then ... It's not just about pressing a bad product on people, it's about the greed leading the campaign in the first place.
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