readbeanicecream@kbin.social to Technology@kbin.social · 1 year agoAmazon, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom join forces to take on Google and Apple Mapsmashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squaresouthsamurai@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoAnd what are they planning to do with it? Because there’s no such coming thing as an altruistic act by companies, and those all have a long track record of fucking people over
minus-squarereadbeanicecream@kbin.socialOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoThey are definately looking to make money off of it: https://www.feedough.com/how-google-maps-works-makes-money/ Advertising Selling APIs Partnering with other Companies and, of course, data mining
minus-squareelscallr@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThey can give away the data with the only intent being market share.
And what are they planning to do with it? Because there’s no such coming thing as an altruistic act by companies, and those all have a long track record of fucking people over
They are definately looking to make money off of it: https://www.feedough.com/how-google-maps-works-makes-money/
They can give away the data with the only intent being market share.