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That's how buying works. You can conveniently forget who you bought it from, because it's yours now. Google Maps was bought from an australian company BTW.
by amadeuspagel 2y ago
That's how buying works. You can conveniently forget who you bought it from, because it's yours now. Google Maps was bought from an australian company BTW.
- palata 2y ago> That's how buying works. You can conveniently forget who you bought it Sure. But when you buy an innovation, you can't suddenly claim that you invented it. > Google Maps was bought from an australian company BTW https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/science/google-maps-a-swiss-story-cartography-expertise-long-tradition/75766738 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/science/google-maps-a-swiss-sto...
- dagw 2y agoYou're both right ;) Google maps was indeed bought from an Australian company. Or to be more specific, Google bought a company that had a desktop mapping application that they were in the process of porting to the web, the web version was completed after the acquisition, and that was the original Google Maps. The Swiss company in your link was working on a similar project at the same time and got acquired by Google a couple of years later. The Swiss company was in many ways ahead of Google maps at the time and added a lot new technology and features to Google maps, and can to a great extent probably be considered the basis for the success of Google maps, but Google Maps existed before that acquisition.
- palata 2y agoInteresting! So that's twice non-US innovation ;-).