Google is laying off employees at Waze
www.theverge.com
It’s unclear how many jobs will be cut.

Firing the sales team = less income = some higher up will see declining profits = it will be killed

    • Moonrise2473@feddit.itOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m very impressed about it. I wonder how they’re making money if they don’t sell traffic data or ads or telemetry. Their server expenses aren’t cheap

      • Brunette6256@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I had the same thought. So I emailed them and asked last year. Below is the reply:

        Hello, We are glad that you like Magic Earth! Magic Earth is free for end users, but we have a paid SDK - you can check generalmagic.com for more info. We have partnerships with companies such as Selectric, Smarter AI, Absolute Cycling etc.

    • seang96@spgrn.comEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m going to give this a try today and see how it goes. Only concern is gmaps routing is probably more advanced… But it probably wouldn’t be too bad for trips you know 90%+ of the way.