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Google was the dominant provider of maps I'm guessing by a large margin. GCP is not the dominant provider of cloud services (they're third or distant third).
by marcinzm 6y ago
Google was the dominant provider of maps I'm guessing by a large margin. GCP is not the dominant provider of cloud services (they're third or distant third).
- d1zzy 6y agoSo that means it should be safer to rely on GCP (or in general on services where Google is not dominant) than something like Maps where it is dominant.
- marcinzm 6y agoUnless GCP is priced lower than competitors in which case their prices may rise to match them like with hosted kubernetes.
- maxerickson 6y agoYes, that's my point. There's clearly competition in compute. That Mapbox raised prices after Google did points to maps not being terribly cut throat (I think Mapbox got lots of low value load when Google upped prices, load that they then subsequently decided to shed by upping prices). Other map data providers were already more expensive than Google.
- oblio 6y agoI think they're fourth and falling: AWS, Azure, Ali, GCP. I think the IBM cloud is gaining on GCP. Worse than that, every 1 position drop market share halves: ~50%, ~25%, 12%, 6%.