Google Maps on Android finally picked up a weather feature from the iOS version.

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Google Maps on Android finally picked up a weather feature from the iOS version.
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I presumed this would be a radar layer feature. Instead it is essentially a widget shoved in. 👎

A radar layer feature ?

Something like this I guess. You can also add the air quality as a layer on top of GMaps. They probably didn't do it this way because "weather" has more than one variable. A rain-radar-layer would be nice though..

Bizarre that a Google product would get new features on Apple's platform first.

Different teams with different priorities. But I would've also assumed that they roll out features simultaneously on all platforms.