I've been trying to figure out exactly WHY my personal note was displaced with a Google message about using the IPhone to access maps. So far, I haven't been able to reproduce it! Note: capriciousness is generally not considered a positive quality with regard to the behavior of software.
This is assuming that Google's mapping software is not buggy. Monkeying with it shows what happened: my printer was in landscape mode when the print preview first showed. Someone with the excellent judgment of a pot smoker must have decided it would be cool when in landscape mode to replace the note with a hint on how one could use an IPhone. But silently replacing the content of a user-generated page is uncool and not at all unobtrusive.
Here's a hint to software developers: MAKING DECISIONS FOR USERS IS ALMOST ALWAYS A STUPID THING TO DO. You only end up giving "Gilligan Help", the kind of help that screws up the scene more than if you had never entered the frame. We don't need this kind of help.
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