In a way, it’s sort of good that Google and Microsoft seem intent on sabotaging their own products.

It allows competition some hope of penetrating the market, and retaining market share. I’ve been using Bing Maps today, and while it’s not perfect it does allow very easy and much quicker fetching of GPS coordinates than even Classic Google Maps.

So with the removal of a single feature that a lot of GPS users depend on,  a great number of people will switch from Google Maps right away.

Bing Maps doesn’t have street view, and it’s a lot clunkier – but unlike the new Google Maps, all works as expected.

Who is in charge at Google these days? Though someone who can’t find their start menu should be able to use a computer, we should definitely not allow them to design products as apparently Google and Microsoft are now doing.