To me it seems like this change is centered around navigation using a car. Streets are much more prominent, while details in nature are lost. The greens are much more muted and barely recognisable. And they also get lost between the stronger color for roads.
So for navigation I don’t mind it, but for just looking things or orientating myself, I really hate it.
My initial reaction is “fucking gross”, but that’s only because Google Maps has taught me what map colors should be. I’m old enought to have used a book-based atlas even before Yahoo Maps was popular, but young enough I don’t remember what that coloring was.
While I do find it harder to understand what is going on with the map, esp while driving, I’d be interested in reading more into why they made the change. So fucking help me God if this is just some graphic artists idea of what looks better…
It’s going to take some getting used to. As someone with a visual disability, I generally absolutely hate when developers mess with UI’s and color choices. This isn’t TOO bad, though I would still prefer darker rather than lighter tints.
That sounds like your phone is on the way out more than Google Maps having an issue, tbh.
I had this before after a system update on my Fairphone 4 completely broke the orientation sensor which in turn made navigation absolutely horrible. It was only fixed months later by another big update.
Took getting used to for a few days but roads and other features stand out better. Just “browsing” is worse because of the stark colors with high saturation, but navigation and finding things works better as a result, too.
I’m honestly getting a bit disillusioned with Cast. I replaced all my Sonos with Nest speakers because of the better voice assistant functionality. “Fully supported” services like YouTube Music (that can be integrated as your default music service) work fine. But when I’m trying to use Plex or Tidal I run into issues if I try to include things like my Nest Hub in a group or dynamically add/remove speakers from what’s playing.
Really? I have a CCwGTV hooked to my big audio system acting as one speaker and a Nest Audio as the other. I use them in a group as well as individually and I don’t see any problems with audio over Spotify, YT Music or Plex. 🤔 Other than the occasional issue now and then.
The issue is with different Cast firmware versions. The Nest Audio is at 2.57 and my Nest Hub is at 1.71. The CCwGTV is likely kept up to date with the Nest Audio.
Interesting. Yeah, large disparities between versions can easily cause significant issues. I know I can’t get teams in my org to commit to supporting just N and N+1 version compatibility.
Edit: just looked at my CCwGTV and it says its cast firmware is 1.69. 😏 While the Nest Audio and Home Mini are on 2.57.
Yeah my Shield TV is on 1.68 and it works so I guess it’s not the specific version. Still, the inconsistent performance is annoying. Not bad enough to get me to sell the speakers, but bad enough for me to not recommend them.
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