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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.
Damn, I missed the news about Google domains. That sucks. Squarespace domain pricing is typically pretty high.
Yeah it’s super frustrating too because google was one of the few places that you could get a .dev domain, and square space isn’t exactly the most logical place for a developer’s sight
Switch to cloudflare, they recently started with domains
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)
Wait are we sure about Google domains? I literally just saw an ad for it yesterday.
Confirmed by Squarespace: https://domains.squarespace.com/
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.
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 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!
Then again, another great way to reduce speeding tickets is not speeding.
Seriously ?
Cop are master at putting trap in the worst area possible, like where it goes from 110 to 90 then 110 again over 200 meters.
I’d like to see more Waze features integrated into Google Maps.
A lot of the data is shared back and forth, but yeah the tools are much better in Waze.
The reports of police and obstacles are also super useful and more plentiful then in Gmaps
And that is why Waze has to go away. It’s giving people info on cops, so that’s becoming politically inconvenient for Google.
Same. I’m surprised that they haven’t merged the apps years ago. I thought it was only a matter of time, but Waze continued to exist for many years.
Waze is quite a different experience than Google Maps when driving, so it’s made sense to keep them as two separate apps.
Google Maps is “I want to get from point A to point B in a normal way.”
Waze is “I want the most aggressively quick way; no back street is too small for me.”
I feel like OP has gone too far with the editorialised headline this time, as the only thing that’s happening at this point is switching Waze over to use the standard Google ad platform rather than their custom system.
Magic earth seems pretty good.
HD traffic and report a cop. Also not google and privacy built.
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.
Shouldn’t uneditorilised headlines be a rule around these parts too? Take your hot takes to the comments or the body text.
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
Kind of an alarmist headline, and not at all what the article says.
In my country Waze is the literal go-to app for drivers.
Google
Killing a functional product
Is it Tuesday again?
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.
I wonder if anyone predicted this when Google bought Waze…it’s not like Google has a history of killing major projects when they acquire them.
Is there anyone who didn’t this coming when they first bought Waze?
How do we kill Google?
DuckDuckGo
DDG has to get a lot better before that’s going to happen, sorry.
DDG has actually been a lot better when searching than Google ever has for me. The top posts aren’t always ads, I don’t have to keep rephrasing everything to find what I’m looking for, it’s been great.
