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outside1234 on March 20, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: An Open Letter to Google: Google Alerts Now Useles...

The difference there was really that the iPhone used Maps and that that needed to be monetized.

rgbrenner on March 21, 2013 | [–]

the iphone maps app was from google (until the contract expired, and apple created their own)... how could charging themselves for api use be a monetization strategy?

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