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> 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 simi

> 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.