Thread: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
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BatPenguin is offline BatPenguin
2009-10-29 , 06:14
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Originally Posted by christexaport View Post
I don't want Nokia to stop developing Ovi Maps. I like it better than Google because of its offline maps and its Navteq images, which are the best in the world since the latest Worldview-2 satellite deal. If they do, there will only be Google Maps, and that would allow Google to start charging exorbitantly for the service as the lone provider.
And this is based on...what exactly? As the many tinfoil hats around here will tell you, Google's business is not charging for its services. You can worry about Google's size and influence and privacy and all that, but there's no examples of them charging for a service, all their basic stuff is free.

Google is in the advertising/information business. Whether or not their offerings will push makers of navigation software, paid e-mail services, office software, mobile OS's etc. out of business is irrelevant.They're not in it to make money in the traditional sense, they make their money elsewhere.