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Firing the sales team = less income = some higher up will see declining profits = it will be killed
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Google kills everything it touches
https://killedbygoogle.com/ is a great site to see them all. It’s A LOT.
288 services dead
Pretty sure if this was any other industry there would be a lot of shit thrown, but because its Google they somehow get away with it.
Damn, I missed the news about Google domains. That sucks. Squarespace domain pricing is typically pretty high.
that’s okay! there are other great alternatives: the folks over at selfhosted@lemmy.world generally agree that porkbun is excellent (and i’d agree with them)
Switch to cloudflare, they recently started with domains
Wait are we sure about Google domains? I literally just saw an ad for it yesterday.
Confirmed by Squarespace: https://domains.squarespace.com/
Do Only Harm
Why are they doing this. Waze was such an amazing tool
Title is clickbait, they are laying off the ads department and using Google’s.
They’ve integrated what they want into Maps navigation. Now they want you to switch and be happy about it.
No they didn’t. They show traffic info from Waze in Google Maps, but the navigation is still the old one, not the Waze one.
Google cross Reddit when?
Google maps is pretty damn good though - but I do like Waze for road trips
Well that is unfortunate, Waze is a great community that showed what is possible with crowdsourced information and keeping people from getting as many sepeding tickets
Crowdsourcing proprietary software - it ends the same every time. People should just do OpenStreetMaps instead
If you actually care about crowdsourced information, please consider contributing to your local area in OpenStreetMaps. There’s way more to crowdsourcing than just avoiding speeding tickets!
Read the article… It’s transitioning to a different ad team, so cost reduction when only one system for ads is needed. I don’t think this will be cancelled since their community is actively keeping it alive.
But Google traditionally is operating internal teams as competing teams. So Waze has a great chance of being seen as a “competing” product to Google maps. A customer sent to Waze might be seen as a customer lost to Waze. For example Waze added first the integration with Spotify in 2017, never supported Google play music and only after years it supported YouTube music. If they felt that they were under the same company (they were acquired five years earlier), they should have been integrated Google play music first, Spotify second (or both, GPM was killed three years later).
Regarding the community, i saw a lot of mods doing a lot of unpaid work. And i mean A LOT, they are investing hours of their free time to improve maps for a multi billion corporation. But when I tried to login, i had the impression that it was abandoned since the acquisition. The interface design is very outdated and it’s very hard for a regular user to find this place as it’s not advertised anywhere (i got the link when I sent a correction to the map from the app)
And corrections appear to be unidirectional. Something that gets fixed or flagged in Google maps doesn’t transfer to Waze, but the opposite happens.
Again on Android auto, Waze got split screen support 6 months after it was publicly announced and one year after it was available in the public beta channel on the play store. No communication between the two teams in the same company, the android auto team treated the Waze team as they were some independent company
Seeing Google history, i give 3 years max before they wind down Waze.
Magic earth seems pretty good.
HD traffic and report a cop. Also not google and privacy built.
I’m very impressed about it. I wonder how they’re making money if they don’t sell traffic data or ads or telemetry. Their server expenses aren’t cheap
Google
Killing a functional product
Is it Tuesday again?
Kind of an alarmist headline, and not at all what the article says.
Oh for fuck sake.
Fuck Google. I used Waze since it didnt need a Google account and was still reasonably popular in my area.
If I have to use a Google account for this shit, I dont know what I’d do.
you already need to use a google account, no? I tried to login again in my new phone, i could only login with google
Google: Google remains deeply committed to growing Waze’s unique brand
Also Google: And how are we going to achieve that? By decreasing the workforce that works on waze
In my country Waze is the literal go-to app for drivers.
Is there anyone who didn’t see this coming when they first bought Waze?
Waze editor here. Based on the article’s content, this post’s title is a bit of an overreaction. Google would be a fool to kill off a platform with more accurate street maps than its core platform, maintained by a vibrant group of volunteers, at least without creating or migrating those tools over to GMaps.
Now is the time to start encouraging Waze users to try Magic Earth!
It also has social reporting features, uses open street maps, and has a real privacy policy.
The main thing I love about Waze which Apple Maps and Google don’t have is the ability to have the always on speed limit.
I know Google shows the speed limit sometimes when navigating, I just liked Waze better because I can have it always on.
Classic Google
Well, there goes my little Halo Warthog as me on my screen. :( Wish there was an app I can just customize that shit how I want.
