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If you drive with a Google device, they know when you're speeding anyway. This is only about adding a user convenience that's about as new as dinosaur dung.
by Fins 8y ago
If you drive with a Google device, they know when you're speeding anyway. This is only about adding a user convenience that's about as new as dinosaur dung.
- ddingus 8y agoOf course they do. If it's right, and used to advise people, great. There will be more to it than that.
- Fins 8y agoMaybe already is, but I don't think it has anything to do with this story -- Google finally decides to do something most other GPS vendors have been doing for ages, and that they had data for for ages as well.
- ddingus 8y agoI agree, but I also feel it is a time to get people to think about what is going to come.
- Fins 8y agoIndeed. And the pendulum seems to be slowly swinging that way. Google et al aren't helping their case by being so detached from reality either.
- ddingus 8y agoNo, they are not. I wonder just why that is. I have ideas, but would prefer to read other takes.
- Fins 8y agoAs long as they can rack in billions of dollars with their current business model, and with no negative consequences, why would they change anything? And living in a bubble males them feel good about themselves, too. If you drink enough free Kool-Aid you start believing you are doing something good, so why should they do any different...