It's not free and installed by default on every android devices ?
You mean, I can buy a subscription and not rent the service with my search history ?
Where's the sign-up button ?
You mean, I can buy a subscription and not rent the service with my search history ?
Where's the sign-up button ?
They all have different monetization strategies, and all provide good enough turn by turn directions. I regularly use Here WeGo for its offline support. Sygic is probably still fine.
I think Sygic moved to a freemium model, and I get the impression Here is subsidized by luxury car manufacturers.
Yelp crushes google maps on search.
I really don’t understand why google maps is so popular. Like search, maps is a capital intensive, commodity product with near-zero switching cost. I guess the same can be said of Coke and Pepsi, and they’re chugging along just fine. It’s a good thing I don’t work in brand management!
> I really don’t understand why google maps is so popular.
Because it's bundled on billions of devices ? And it's a product that was/is working really well for the vast majority ?
Not even in the same ball park. Yelp's search for example does not understand that there's a RIVER between Brooklyn and Manhattan. So when I'm in Greenpoint it says there's something right there, in Manhattan when I want something local.
And for newer people, bundling is hugely impactful. Doing nothing is almost always the most popular choice