But yeah, let’s have more zany celebrity voices.
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26165809
Why does this keep happening? It is false 100% of the time. Are people really watching the sun come up every morning and thinking, "okay but tomorrow it won't."
> I believed that I could build out Waze within Google, breaking the myth about what happens to companies after being acquired by large corporations
Nice cautionary tale, but I'm different.
> Perhaps Corp-Tech should move to employee share buy back where employees must sacrifice some of their salary for equity or change equity to vest by a product related metric to connect the teams performance with the employee returns.
Performance based incentives never work for people who are not directly revenue generating. One piston in your engine working extra hard is meaningless, the credit to getting you to your destination is the driver. And when cogs in the machine lose out on their "performance" incentive because they never had any control to begin with they get angry, burnt out, and leave. Within a corporation you have to make the labor theory of value true and reward effort even if it's pointless. You put the responsibility of delivering meaningful value on the people directing where that effort goes.
> while on line, a Googler ahead of us was overheard saying “What? Sushi again???” which became our inside joke around entitlement. But several months later, we had been co-opted as well and it was Waze employees complaining about the food
This both completely misunderstands and exactly gets why entitlement is the wrong concept. Everyone's happiness and contentment regresses to the mean eventually when their lives get better and when they get worse. Someone complaining about the sushi is genuinely and reasonably annoyed because that very literally made their day worse. People see that as entitlement because they're forgetting how happiness in humans actually works.
Whether this is a comfort or nihilistic is up to you but Elon Musk is not happier than you.
Google has sat on it since, eventually they will port features to Maps and kill it when it is convenient. As for installing...uh..Google Maps? It's Google's Android, Google could do whatever they want. That was the whole point of the 'Free' OS Phone post yesterday.
The fact that it’s still around 10 years later suggests it wasn’t their only motivation behind the acquisition.
I wish I had permanent "Police reported this side", "police reported that side", "vehicle on shoulder", "Road hazard" buttons immediately accessible like my hazard lights are. Having to tap through a few screens of navigation in the app is annoying.
Shutting it down, we freed up about 200 million per year, which is the same or better as earnings that amount.
So much talk about AI, but we dont get simple things that go a long way, and don't even need AI to function. What we will get instead is a forced option that buys dunkin and starbucks anytime you drive near them because whenever tech giants release things they think of the most obscure / under QA'd way to implement and release them.
The only downside mr T couldn't tell me street names (though with ai voice...)
It feels like a lot of the 'fun' in apps has been removed over the years.
It's really astonishing how many obvious things like this aren't implemented on either Google Maps or Waze. And for those that do exist, they feel like they've been designed by someone who has never driven outside of California and never used mixed-mode transport.
The tech exists + it’s an obvious good idea. I wonder if just not enough people used it
Never felt a reason to switch.