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Google is preparing to kill Waze (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 years ago by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to c/android@lemmy.world

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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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[–] EsotericEmbryo@lemmy.world 66 points 3 years ago (5 children)

Google kills everything it touches

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[–] klyde@lemmy.world 32 points 3 years ago (3 children)

https://killedbygoogle.com/ is a great site to see them all. It's A LOT.

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[–] ohmyiv@lemmy.world 6 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Damn, I missed the news about Google domains. That sucks. Squarespace domain pricing is typically pretty high.

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[–] Empyreus@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago

Switch to cloudflare, they recently started with domains

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[–] PupBiru@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago

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)

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[–] whettghost@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

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

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[–] Empyreus@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Wait are we sure about Google domains? I literally just saw an ad for it yesterday.

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[–] ohmyiv@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Confirmed by Squarespace: https://domains.squarespace.com/

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[–] Empyreus@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago

Wild they are still running ads

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[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it [S] 1 point 3 years ago

Marketing team didn't was aware yet or forgot to turn off the campaign when reassigned

For stadia, a game dev said that they were shocked by reading the announcement on Twitter, as they spoke with some stadia engineer about their game port to stadia only three hours earlier

Looks like when Google decides to kill a product, only a few managers know it

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[–] NecoArcKbinAccount@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago*

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.

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[–] Poggervania@kbin.social 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Wait, why the fuck would they kill off Google Domains? It's incredibly competitive when you compare it to Namecheap and Porkbun imo.

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[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago

Sold to Squarespace for some reason.

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[–] Limeey@lemmy.world 18 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Why are they doing this. Waze was such an amazing tool

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[–] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

They've integrated what they want into Maps navigation. Now they want you to switch and be happy about it.

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[–] lunarul@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago

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.

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[–] orientalsniper@lemmy.world 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Title is clickbait, they are laying off the ads department and using Google's.

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[–] aegisgfx877@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago

I dunno, google has a long history of buying competitors then shutting them down, we are all just anticipating it this time.

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[–] mook71@lemmy.world 7 points 3 years ago

Google maps is pretty damn good though - but I do like Waze for road trips

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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 years ago

Do Only Harm

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[–] kratoz29@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

Google cross Reddit when?

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