"Unfortunately, there are no good alternatives to some Google properties. Maps...."
For maps, depending on your uses, bing mapquest's map and geocoding APIs can be replacements, and sometimes cheaper.
For maps, depending on your uses, bing mapquest's map and geocoding APIs can be replacements, and sometimes cheaper.
This is directed more at the linked post than you, but it fits here: Sometimes I get half-way behind one of these screeds, because after all I do believe in open standards (and was pretty peeved about Reader). But then I look more closely and find stuff like this, which frankly sounds like yet another Apple nut trying to stick it to Android via proxy.
[1] Which, of course, maps are not.