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It's ironic you pick Google Maps as the one product that "gets it right". Did you hear about the recent pricing scandal? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17
by darzu 8y ago
It's ironic you pick Google Maps as the one product that "gets it right". Did you hear about the recent pricing scandal? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17570029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17570029
- shaklee3 8y agoI didn't really read that as much of a scandal. Just that they were increasing prices and people got upset.
- i_cant_speel 8y agoI'm upset by this because I just got burned by it last week. I needed their geocoding API for a project at work. I didn't realize I was looking at their old pricing page at first, and came to the conclusion it would cost us about $65 a month. Once I realized my mistake, I did the math again and it came to over $700 a month, which couldn't be justified for the use case. So I've spent the last week implementing the functionality I needed myself. While I agree it's not a 'scandal', it's extremely frustrating and baffling to me.
- shaklee3 8y agoyes, I agree that's extremely frustrating. It was a huge price increase, and probably needed to be justified or at least have a different tiered structure to make it less expensive.
- fouc 8y agoThat's only screwing the other sites that integrate with google maps. Not so much the end user that is using google maps directly.