Google is preparing to kill Waze

Moonrise2473@feddit.it to Android@lemmy.world – 54 points –
Google is laying off employees at Waze
theverge.com

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

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Magic earth seems pretty good.

HD traffic and report a cop. Also not google and privacy built.

https://www.magicearth.com/

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

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.