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by ethbr0 1154 days ago
6 years (and all the money) seems a decent trade off for strategic autonomy, and cutting a foot off Google-on-iPhone.

I.e. why lock down permissions if Google would get location data from every phone through Google Maps anyway.

Furthermore, it decreases the value of Google Maps by depriving them of traffic data (something that really only works at scale when the maps user base is "most people").