> A standalone maps company would have to charge money to run the service. Yes. That is typically how businesses work. That cost is being subsidized by an uber

> A standalone maps company would have to charge money to run the service. Yes. That is typically how businesses work. That cost is being subsidized by an uber-entity that is slurping private data of its more economically valuable customers at every turn. Why is it fair to do that? > But it's rather difficult to defend a proclivity to take choice away from the rest of us. Where is my choice to step out of this Big Brother ecosystem? If Maps was so awesome, why did Google acquire Waze? And why was it allowed to?