I wonder if I am the only one! I tried Fitness+ a few times (the meditation part for now, really), and it's almost impossible to navigate. They focus on teachers, nothing is grouped or wrongly grouped.<p>The health app as well. It's just a randomly generated dashboard and super hard to navigate. I can see that they mimiced the Health app design for Fitness+ to some degree.<p>Like is this a new trend, or is nobody from Apple themselves actually using these apps?
I don’t feel like this is a new thing for Apple. Does anyone actually use Apple Maps? Their podcast app is poorly made also. I often have to manually go through episodes to mark them as unplayed because it randomly says I listened to them when I haven’t.
It isn't a new trend. It has just started to affect almost every app they make.<p>Shortcuts isn't even beta quality on the Mac. Podcasts, as mentioned, is awful. Music is a PITA to use unless all you want to do is stream random songs. I can't think of a single Apple app that I enjoy using.<p>Don't get me started on Books.<p>Apple seems to focus on one use-case for their apps. Anything other than that suffers.
One Thing to consider is:<p>It's not always good to have well grouped and aggregated content, because if you have, you may give away the possibility to get other content discovered by the users.<p>The same reason that you get unrelated suggestions for searches in YouTube, Facebook and Insta and others.<p>So, if everything is focused on teachers, then it's on purpose to promote other teachers among the one's you already know.<p>It's not "are they incompetent?". Rather the question should be "why this way and not the other?"