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Re:Crowdsource by Google by szastamasta on Sunday May 15, 2022 @03:49AM (#31385992)
Google is making a lot of money on Maps. The consumer app is free only so you feed them free data from your rides. They also kicked out of business all competition (hard to compete with free). And as usual with monopolies, when there’s no competition, you can do what you want. Wait for it. In few years it will be shut down or will cost a lot if they no longer can sell your data to someone else.
Re:Crowdsource by Google by astrange on Sunday May 15, 2022 @06:19AM (#31386588)
Google Maps has lots of competition. Bing, OSM, Apple, CityMapper, HERE, Yahoo Japan, TomTom, Garmin, Waze even though they own it… I could keep going.