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My current theory is that this is a simple extortion ploy: After getting me to depend on Android Google Maps, they have replaced it with something unusable. Shortly they will release Google Maps Classic for $49.95/year. I will happily pay that; it's cheaper than the blood pressure medication I'd need to counteract all the rage-inducing misfeatures they've put in the latest version.

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Bullshit. Google does not sell web services to end users.

Someone on the internet is wrong!!! (ps. it's you).

You can pay Google for services as an end user.

He might have overstated the case but the commentator he is replying to is, actually, talking bullshit.

sheer bullshit u r taking about

If only there were some kind of well-understood cultural phenomenon where people could say hyperbolic or absurd things for the amusement of their fellow humans.

It's a shame something like doesn't exist. I bet it would be fun.

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