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I'm sure it is, but they can afford it...

• abduhl 8y ago
  This is actually my real question: can these companies afford it? If a company has X months of runway and their Maps costs just went up by a factor of 11 then Google may have just gone from "less than payroll" to "more expensive than our devs". Is this Google trying to move into a new space?
  • izacus 8y ago
    Do you really think you can just jumpstart a project like Google Maps with a few devs?!
    • abduhl 8y ago
      My question is pointed at companies that rely on Google Maps, not Maps itself. If a company is spending 80% of their cash on HR related items and 20% on miscellaneous infrastructure costs (hosting, Maps API access, etc) with 25% of that misc cost being maps then monthly expenditures just increased by ~23% (and runway decreased by ~19%)