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Silicon Valley - "It's Apple Maps bad"

Damesh KwantiCited 7× on HN, 2018-2025
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214K views · 11 years ago · comedy · evergreen

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.

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

Satire & parodyFilm & TV clips#siliconvalley#applemaps#hbo#satire#focusgroup

7 comments from Hacker News

@DonHopkins2025 · in “Material 3 Expressive”

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? ▶ this video

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@DonHopkins2024 · in “Sanding UI”

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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@choppaface2024 · in “Apple planning default navigation app setting in iOS 18 for EU users”

Remember when "Apple Maps Bad" was catastrophic? ▶ this 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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@DonHopkins2022 · in “Ask HN: How does Apple achieve both secrecy and quality for a release?”

Is he the one directly responsible for the Silicon Valley "It's Apple Maps Bad" scene? ▶ this video

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@DonHopkins2021 · in “I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos”

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 system ut

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@faeriechangling2021 · in “Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model”

Their implementations are not on-device and thus it's actually significantly more difficult to reverse engineer. Apples unique implementation of on-device scanning is much easier to reverse engineer and thus exploit. Now apple is in this crappy situation where they can't claim their software is secure because it's open source and auditable, but they also can't claim it's secure because it's closed source and they fixed the problems in some later version because this entire debacle has likely destroyed all faith in their competence. If apple is in the position of having to boast "Trust us bro, your iPhone won't be exploited to get you SWATTED over CSAM anymore, we patched it" the big question is why is apple voluntarily adding something to their devices where the failure mode is violent imprisonment and severe loss of reputation when they are not completely competent? This entire debacle reminds me of this video: ▶ this video

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@Bokanovsky2018 · in “Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up”

Here's the obligatory Silicon Valley clip link, where a focus group states how bad the product is: ▶ this video

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