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The news still goes crazy over it. When Google started charging for heavy use of the Maps API, people claimed Google was performing Microsoft-esque anti-competi
by NegativeK 14y ago
The news still goes crazy over it. When Google started charging for heavy use of the Maps API, people claimed Google was performing Microsoft-esque anti-competitive tactics.
- mmanfrin 14y agoThe difference there is that Google Maps was used on a majority of all products that featured maps (outside in-house things from Microsoft, or special partnerships). Google Alerts, Reader, Finance, et al are products they have been closing/breaking/disregarding for lack of interest, which is a completely opposite problem from the Maps example.
- outside1234 14y agoThe difference there was really that the iPhone used Maps and that that needed to be monetized.
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- rgbrenner 14y agothe iphone maps app was from google (until the contract expired, and apple created their own)... how could charging themselves for api use be a monetization strategy?