Embrace Buy, extend do nothing with it, extinguish.
Don’t worry, it will be on killedbygoogle.com soon
Which, in this particular case, wouldn’t be a bad thing. Just integrate the community aspects into Google Maps, make them optional.
at this point it doesn’t matter, but the fact that they were allowed to buy it is a travesty.
Waze was the only app with the capilarity to get enough mapping data to be competitive.
Google Maps’ pricing for their API is insane and there’s no viable alternative outside the USA.
They bought it to kill it.
Google Maps is a good general maps app, but Waze is really good at one thing only: driving. In Waze you can share your drive, look for gas stations along the way (with prices and travel time), use toll passes, and get a personalized ETA based on your driving.
Google has had the chance to implement these features into Maps for the 10 years it has owned Wazd but just hasn’t, and I don’t think they will. At least not all of them.
You can do all these in Maps (minus toll passes). I’m not sure how an ETA could be personalized (I don’t use Waze) but Maps is pretty accurate with ETAs as is.
Waze has other features that Maps is missing.
Waze is the only routing software I know that can handle vignettes.
Surprised it took this long honestly. For my navigation needs, Magic Earth works great, and does include crowd sourced reporting similar to Waze.
They never should have been allowed to buy it in the first place.
It makes me sad that people are losing their jobs. Somewhere out there are real people with real families wondering what they’re going to do if they’re out of a job. It just sucks.
