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Re:Fix your crappy ads and I’ll stop blocking them by ams6110 on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @02:24PM (#14249094)
Again, people paid for Garmin and TomTom devices and data plans long before Google Maps.
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Re:Fix your crappy ads and I’ll stop blocking them by bradjohnson on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @05:09PM (#14250624)
And no longer... The market peaked and fell 10 years ago for both of those companies while google continues to grow. I'm not convinced that it would be a good strategy for google to follow their example.

To be clear, I agree that ads are not the ONLY way, just the most effective way for many companies. I think that there is no way that google could so easily steal market share from both Garmin and TomTom without ad revenue.

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