Real question is will Google pay the price of removing this feature? This definitely reduces lock-in. Friends with iPhone had problems with gmaps location histo

Real question is will Google pay the price of removing this feature? This definitely reduces lock-in. Friends with iPhone had problems with gmaps location history so I never really considered Apple phone for this feature alone. Now I'm more open to that option, especially if Apple maps has a similar feature (does it?). It looks like a small thing, but what happens when you switch ecosystem on number of apps/services you're using, maybe you won't use Chrome on the iPhone, maybe you won't sync browser history anymore because of that, maybe you'll use Apple maps, you'll abandon Google photos, maybe you'll have less use for Google account when not all services are Google's? And in the end maybe you'll find that some other search engine is the same or better than Google and de-google completely? And that's where the Google's billions come from. How could they risk this? It's a death by thousand (actually much less) cuts? If this is my company I would be very worried that one of these cuts will be too much, and once users start going away it would be very hard to win them back. I never thought I would say this, but at this point I'm sad that Microsoft didn't find a way to remain in the phone race.