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by hakaaak 4937 days ago
Yep, they made this mistake with flight search also. Let everyone know about a service with crappy data, then everyone thinks it is crappy and never go back to it. Brilliant, from the minds of geniuses. It worked for Gmail because users didn't need data to begin with, but it doesn't work for services that require a lot of data to start with to be viable. And even if you have data, it better be good; ask Apple about their maps.