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This doesn't surprise me. My observation with Google product teams partnering is that they start from the assumption that the price of working with them is what
by ethbr0 4y ago
This doesn't surprise me. My observation with Google product teams partnering is that they start from the assumption that the price of working with them is whatever data they want.
Pushback = "Fine, we won't do a deal"
Felt like watching railroads negotiate with local government.
- scarface74 4y agoThis very attitude is what prompted Apple to drop Google for its native Maps app.
- Mindwipe 4y agoAnd was a catastrophe for Apple.
- philsnow 4y agowas. It's gotten a lot better.
- balls187 4y agoYes. It only took 6 years to catch up. Google has better POI support, but I now use Apple Maps for pretty much all my nav needs.
- ethbr0 4y ago6 years (and all the money) seems a decent trade off for strategic autonomy, and cutting a foot off Google-on-iPhone. I.e. why lock down permissions if Google would get location data from every phone through Google Maps anyway. Furthermore, it decreases the value of Google Maps by depriving them of traffic data (something that really only works at scale when the maps user base is "most people").
- scarface74 4y agoI doubt very seriously that Apple lost any sales and there were third party apps like Mapquest that offered real time directions before the Maps app had them at all.