So you think Google has been needlessly hemorrhaging money for two decades? Seems like an odd statement. Clearly Google sees the value in it. Even if it is sim

So you think Google has been needlessly hemorrhaging money for two decades? Seems like an odd statement. Clearly Google sees the value in it. Even if it is simply brand identity, or "vendor lockin" (for lack of a better description). Clearly there is something that is very meaningful to Google to do it. I bet there are a ton of companies that would love to have their maps product as the "maps app" of choice by the masses. Likewise, i'm sure Microsoft would love if i had to login to bing every time i used Navigation, compared to me never using bing for anything ever. So yea, i don't think "Totally Blew It" is that far off the mark.