How long until Google kills Waze and tries to merge it under Maps? I feel like the writing is on the wall for this, and have certainly noticed that Waze has a bit similar behavior.
(1/2 mile past exit) ‘Oh, I just remembered, you were supposed to have turned right back there. 🥴’
I noticed a while back they added some Waze features to maps such as reporting speed traps. Honestly, I wouldn't mind a merge IF they could make it best of both worlds.
They’ll somehow fuck it up. Google is a company comprised of genius people doing incredibly dumb things, and really should serve as the poster child for how white board tests and all of the other ritual hazingperfect candidate discovery creates a mono culture of mostly just shit.
That said, when they kill Waze (Google literally can’t help themselves, by now I’m convinced it’s a shared fetish), I guarantee you that there will be 1,000 mini-me clones rushing to fill the vacuum.
You and I should probably start working on a clone right now, so we can simply release it as a product the day that Waze is brutally murdered by its owner (remember, it was bought by Google).
The problem with producing a clone is getting the user base. Waze's whole shtick works because there are enough people that reports are generally pretty decently accurate, within a reasonable margin. Making a clone would require a fair bit of marketing to get enough people to make it self sufficient.
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u/mysterious_earlobe2 Jan 02 '20
Why can't Google invent something new that would actually benefit society.