Google Maps
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4 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Apr 16, 2019 by Daniel Gross · said 11 times in 4 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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Apr 16, 2019 neutral
Gross: Google will always beat Apple in services, but lose in hardware
“And I think this will always be the case. They will try to always fix this, but it will always be the case that Google will be amazing at services because ads requires a service business model, and Apple will be amazing at kind of user experience and hardware.…”
Jul 7, 2020 positive
Fry: Google Maps preserves human agency by presenting multiple route options
“The shift in design that we've seen recently, and this is only very recently, is where you type in the address now. So I'm thinking in terms of Google Maps and Waze certainly, and perhaps others, is that you type in the address and then up pops a map, which gi…”
Apr 15, 2025 positive
Apr 15, 2025
Taylor: Google Maps Would Have Been Far Less Interactive Without Desktop Precursor
“And I think that by having the goalposts so far down the field, because they had just started with this Windows app, which was sort of a quirk of Lars and Jens, just like technical choices, we made much bolder technical bets than we would have otherwise. I thi…”