Google Earth criticism
Jan. 12th, 2006 08:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmcirvinBill Bumgarner weighs in: he doesn't like the GUI at all. I have similar complaints, but based on what I've seen of it, I think the Windows version has the same faults; these aren't specific to Mac support.
I think Google Earth gets cut a lot of slack just from the sheer joy of what it does, so people are willing to overlook its faults. On the other hand, that situation might be dangerous for Google, since they themselves started out by walloping competitors who were getting along that way. They weren't the first Web search engine, just the first one that worked correctly.
(The Mac version also has specific glitches of its own that probably come from the fact that it's an initial port: some resource strings refer to stuff specific to the Windows version, and F10's role as an Exposé trigger means that it can't run the Tour.)
I think Google Earth gets cut a lot of slack just from the sheer joy of what it does, so people are willing to overlook its faults. On the other hand, that situation might be dangerous for Google, since they themselves started out by walloping competitors who were getting along that way. They weren't the first Web search engine, just the first one that worked correctly.
(The Mac version also has specific glitches of its own that probably come from the fact that it's an initial port: some resource strings refer to stuff specific to the Windows version, and F10's role as an Exposé trigger means that it can't run the Tour.)