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Re:An Open Letter to Google: Google Alerts Now Useless by NegativeK on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @04:12PM (#5409910)
The news still goes crazy over it. When Google started charging for heavy use of the Maps API, people claimed Google was performing Microsoft-esque anti-competitive tactics.
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Re:An Open Letter to Google: Google Alerts Now Useless by mmanfrin on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @04:16PM (#5409934)
The difference there is that Google Maps was used on a majority of all products that featured maps (outside in-house things from Microsoft, or special partnerships). Google Alerts, Reader, Finance, et al are products they have been closing/breaking/disregarding for lack of interest, which is a completely opposite problem from the Maps example.
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Re:An Open Letter to Google: Google Alerts Now Useless by outside1234 on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @04:30PM (#5410051)
The difference there was really that the iPhone used Maps and that that needed to be monetized.
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Re:An Open Letter to Google: Google Alerts Now Useless by rgbrenner on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @08:21PM (#5411790)
the iphone maps app was from google (until the contract expired, and apple created their own)... how could charging themselves for api use be a monetization strategy?
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