The map in my head will be deemed content theft because it cuts into Google’s profits.
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ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Nice. And then soon it’ll be “watch this add to take the fastest route”.
Then “subscribe for an add free experience” without subscription you get the add, as well as navigation that requires you to drive to a detoured location and take a picture of said location before continuing on to your destination (or yet another detour add, if the trip is long enough).
Look at us, peak civilization here.
/s
njordomir@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Archelon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Please drink your confirmation can now
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 months ago
don’t forget 3 years later when the subscription isn’t profitable enough, so they start injecting ads into the paid subscribers as well.
thejml@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Or when they complain that not enough people are using it so they relaunch it as “Google Roads”.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
“Google roads”->“road maps”->“Google directions”->“Google maps”
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 months ago
Promptly killing off the old version