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>I just can't understand the hate they get in other fronts. One recent Google achievement that it is not talked about that much, Google Maps, Google offered it

>I just can't understand the hate they get in other fronts. One recent Google achievement that it is not talked about that much, Google Maps, Google offered it for free, killed all the other companies that offered similar services for money and now Google maps is also paid. Some people don't like when giants use their profits from a market to offer free stuff in other markets and kill good paid or free products.

magicalist 6y ago
> Google offered it for free, killed all the other companies that offered similar services for money and now Google maps is also paid There weren't really similar services when it launched and there were far more mapping services/APIs both before and after the rate hike, so... The real problem is people based businesses on the rates offered and then they were drastically increased. The maps market is doing fine.
- jhayward 6y ago
  Mapquest was a whole business, a growing, going concern.
  - magicalist 6y ago
    > Mapquest was a whole business MapQuest didn't have a mapping API until later, and was notably owned by AOL and offered as a free product for five years by that point. They're also still a company, having not been killed, despite MapQuest's best efforts to destroy their own wildly popular product through neglect.
harikb 6y ago
Freemium models as well as services being in free to get market share is also a model other companies have also done in the past. Granted this is something that should be slightly regulated. Companies must be forced to give N months notice for pricing changes, particularly those that can also be classified as utilities. About the actual method of pricing though, one needs to compare to the likes of Oracle - where they charge based on CPU cores that you are using (where it is entirely based on how much can they extract out of a company). Or let us take the case of your favorite TV/Phone company wanting more $$ for an extra extension in your house. In those days, I would have never imaged that Netflix or Youtube additional "profiles" would be free.

magicalist 6y ago

> Google offered it for free, killed all the other companies that offered similar services for money and now Google maps is also paid There weren't really similar services when it launched and there were far more mapping services/APIs both before and after the rate hike, so... The real problem is people based businesses on the rates offered and then they were drastically increased. The maps market is doing fine.

jhayward 6y ago
Mapquest was a whole business, a growing, going concern.
- magicalist 6y ago
  > Mapquest was a whole business MapQuest didn't have a mapping API until later, and was notably owned by AOL and offered as a free product for five years by that point. They're also still a company, having not been killed, despite MapQuest's best efforts to destroy their own wildly popular product through neglect.

harikb 6y ago

Freemium models as well as services being in free to get market share is also a model other companies have also done in the past. Granted this is something that should be slightly regulated. Companies must be forced to give N months notice for pricing changes, particularly those that can also be classified as utilities. About the actual method of pricing though, one needs to compare to the likes of Oracle - where they charge based on CPU cores that you are using (where it is entirely based on how much can they extract out of a company). Or let us take the case of your favorite TV/Phone company wanting more $$ for an extra extension in your house. In those days, I would have never imaged that Netflix or Youtube additional "profiles" would be free.