Google Division Waze is Hit with $150m USD Lawsuit
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This just hit the wire from what I can tell and I can't find an open site with information on the suit so I don't know anything about it in detail. But it will be interesting anyway.
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wait, when did google buy Waze?
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@Dashrender said:
wait, when did google buy Waze?
Year or two ago, I think. It's been a little while but not a long time.
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I waze'd when they first came out but got bored spending my money on gas money for them.
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@Dashrender said:
I waze'd when they first came out but got bored spending my money on gas money for them.
It's free though. At least now it is.
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I don't know now, but they had a game of sorts in it. In areas that they didn't have great knowledge as you drive through neighborhoods you'd get points.. for a a few months I'd drive around in neighborhoods I normally don't visit just for points. This extra driving is the cost I'm talking about.
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@Dashrender said:
I don't know now, but they had a game of sorts in it. In areas that they didn't have great knowledge as you drive through neighborhoods you'd get points.. for a a few months I'd drive around in neighborhoods I normally don't visit just for points. This extra driving is the cost I'm talking about.
OIC. You could always just use it as a GPS app and not do that
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
I don't know now, but they had a game of sorts in it. In areas that they didn't have great knowledge as you drive through neighborhoods you'd get points.. for a a few months I'd drive around in neighborhoods I normally don't visit just for points. This extra driving is the cost I'm talking about.
OIC. You could always just use it as a GPS app and not do that
HAHA of course I could LOL I was just having fun with a new app at the time, but tired quickly of it.
I use google maps almost exclusively.
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I like Waze because of the traffic info that it has.
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@scottalanmiller said:
This just hit the wire from what I can tell and I can't find an open site with information on the suit so I don't know anything about it in detail. But it will be interesting anyway.
I just downloaded waze a couple of days ago. I haven't got to use it much, but I do like the idea of it. Hopefully it doesn't go away.
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I use Waze almost daily when I get close to downtown, it has saved me probably hours waiting in traffic and saved me a few times from a cop clocking people on the side road I take when I-35 is jammed.
I will admit find it tedious to enable/disable as to save battery life, privacy, etc. I just use it when I need information. Otherwise it's Google Maps.
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I only use it once in a while. Mostly while driving in NYC.
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@Dashrender said:
wait, when did google buy Waze?
Middle of last year, and in the $1.1B range. Some of the features have been slowly migrated to Google Maps. A bit like Google's acquisition of Zagat ($125M in 2011).
OP story is still low on the radar. Bit more info and GPL tie-in—
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Zagat they just shut down and made go away, though.
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@RoguePacket said:
@Dashrender said:
wait, when did google buy Waze?
Middle of last year, and in the $1.1B range. Some of the features have been slowly migrated to Google Maps. A bit like Google's acquisition of Zagat ($125M in 2011).
OP story is still low on the radar. Bit more info and GPL tie-in—
I assumed Google Maps was slowly migrating some of Waze's functionality as it seems to have recently given me projected travel times based off traffic. Imagined that information is being pooled from the Waze users, but that's just my tinfoil hat speaking.
I think it's a positive acquisition and glad they haven't killed off the app altogether.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Zagat they just shut down and made go away, though.
Thought so, too. Hard copy books are still being published, website exists, and there are iOS & Android Zagat apps. Noticed the books' copyright page does have Google on it—
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@RoguePacket said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Zagat they just shut down and made go away, though.
Thought so, too. Hard copy books are still being published, website exists, and there are iOS & Android Zagat apps. Noticed the books' copyright page does have Google on it—
Yes. It's running on automation and skeleton crew. There was an article published from the Zagat staff about how Google has liquidated everyone and was just keeping enough around to fake the business still being there. No one producing content though.
