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This would actually put them head to head with Google on the street navigation front. One advantage of Waze is how the routes are dynamically updated by it's ow
by waltz 13y ago
This would actually put them head to head with Google on the street navigation front. One advantage of Waze is how the routes are dynamically updated by it's own users.
- linker3000 13y agoNot by me any more if they're owned by FB. I dread to think what FB will do/attempt to do with the 'Waze experience' and the near-realtime info pinpointing all the users. (Waze Area Manager and non FB user)
- Kiro 13y agoWhat's with the FB hate? I think it's a great match.
- meepmorp 13y ago> What's with the FB hate? Facebook's long and troubled history with personal privacy, and tendency to combine disparate bits of personal data in ways that some people find invasive.
- linker3000 13y agoI don't participate in the FB ecosystem at all and do not want to use an app that forces me in - either through a mandatory requirement (..you must now have an FB account to use Waze..), or simply because I use the app and therefore FB can identify me by Waze nickname, forum account details and current location.
- jgeorge 13y agoI use waze daily for my commute and it's saved me tons of time. If FB buys it that's the last I'll use it. (and in response to the "why all the FB hate" comment: I don't hate FB. I used it rather a lot. However, I try to limit the amount of information FB knows about me as much as reasonably possible. Where I am nearly up-to-the-minute, and not only current and historical location data as well as a decent ability to predict where I'm going on most given days, that's too much information for me to willingly hand over to FB. Or anyone. Waze knows where I am, but not necessarily who I am. FB knows who I am, but not necessarily where I am. I don't trust either company with both data sets.
- willy1234x1 13y agoCouldn't Google just theoretically bake Waze's functionality in Maps and use Google+ for the social layer?