Re:Google gave our business listing to a competitor
by renewiltord on Monday June 01, 2020 @02:42PM
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"What could a banana cost, Michael? Ten dollars?"
Google Maps is universal, dude. The fact that you can't even comprehend $10 being a lot of money is amazing. Truly truly amazing. But I must say I fully expected it.
Re:Google gave our business listing to a competitor
by pdonis on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @12:49AM
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> The fact that you can't even comprehend $10 being a lot of money is amazing.
The fact that you can't even comprehend that to anyone who is posting here on HN, $10 is not very likely to be a lot of money, is what I find truly amazing. Not to mention your blithe acceptance of something like Google Maps being "universal, dude", as though it were a law of physics that such complicated and useful applications will just appear for free, or that there couldn't possibly be any downsides to such a state of affairs.
What if it were not offered for free? What if you had to pay a subscription of, say, $10 a year? Would you pay for it then?
If your answer is yes, then it's not that you're not willing to pay anything for it; you are simply taking advantage of the fact that right now you don't have to. But the fact that you don't have to is a side effect of the ad-supported business model, which IMO is doing a lot of damage that could be avoided if only Google would take the simple step that businesses have taken since time immemorial, of charging its users directly for the services they use.
If your answer is no, then evidently this application is not as great and wonderful and useful as people are claiming it is, since it isn't even worth a $10/year subscription, i.e., about 1/10 the price of Netflix.