BRING BACK GOOGLE MAPS !!!

[patratel64]

Poll: Google Maps or HERE Maps

 

[MavicKhan]

Are you willing to pay more?

...or do you think that usage of Google Maps by a comercial, profit-driven entity is free of licensing charges from Google?

MK

 

[patratel64]

Yes, I will. And I am sure I am not alone.

 

[MavicKhan]

No, you're not.

I am also willing to pay more for more accurate maps.

I was just checking if this was a case of forcible-entitlement, so common nowadays.

MK

 

[patratel64]

Why I can use free Google Maps on my PC and on my Android phones and Dji Go and for Dji Go 4 I have to pay separately ?

 

[patratel64]

Another question, why an american has to pay 999 USD for a Mavic and I, an European Comunity Citizen have to pay for the same item 1282 USD ? In what pocket enter the 283 UDS ???

 

[MavicKhan]

Why I can use free Google Maps on my PC and on my Android phones and Dji Go and for Dji Go 4 I have to pay separately ?

Android phones already pay the licensing to Google. It is includede in the price of your phone.

Free maps on Windows is a Google option.

There's no "pay separately" for DJI Go 4. It is already builted-in into the overall system price.

I am just caaling people's attetion that DJI option in what regards maps is probably related to licensig costs.

There are no free lunches.

MK

 

[MavicKhan]

Another question, why an american has to pay 999 USD for a Mavic and I, an European Comunity Citizen have to pay for the same item 1282 USD ? In what pocket enter the 283 UDS ???

Because you (we) have been slowly cooked in the tax cauldron by gently but steadly increasing the "temperature", like the proverbial frog in the popular annedoct, and now have to pay almost 1/4 of the overall price (23%, in my country!) to feed the monster we allowed to be created.

The obnoxious, almost pornographic thing, is that even with these absurd added values from every single of the thousands of millions of commercial exchanges made daily in the EC on top of all other hefty taxes, our goverments can't keep balanced budgets because most of these ever-inpouring cascades of money keep finding the wrong (...or right, under teir POVs...) pockets to flow into.

MK

 

[patratel64]

Android phones already pay the licensing to Google. It is includede in the price of your phone.

Free maps on Windows is a Google option.

There's no "pay separately" for DJI Go 4. It is already builted-in into the overall system price.

I am just caaling people's attetion that DJI option in what regards maps is probably related to licensig costs.

There are no free lunches.

MK

Yes, there are. But not for everybody...

 

[patratel64]

Because you (we) have been slowly cooked in the tax cauldron by gently but steadly increasing the "temperature", like the proverbial frog in the popular annedoct, and now have to pay almost 1/4 of the overall price (23%, in my country!) to feed the monster we allowed to be created.

The obnoxious, almost pornographic thing, is that even with these absurd added values from every single of the thousands of millions of commercial exchanges made daily in the EC on top of all other hefty taxes, our goverments can't keep balanced budgets because most of these ever-inpouring cascades of money keep finding the wrong (...or right, under teir POVs...) pockets to flow into.

MK

Live long the Banks CEO !!!

 

[halley]

Why I can use free Google Maps on my PC and on my Android phones and Dji Go and for Dji Go 4 I have to pay separately ?

Google is first and foremost an advertising company. Search engines and maps are just a loss leader to bring user's eyeballs to the advertisements, so the advertisers will pay Google. No ads, no revenue, no Google, so they lock down the data.

When you use Google apps to see Google Maps, you are able to access all the ads that Google is listing. What's that building? Oh, it's a Denny's restaurant, 3 stars, open 24 hours, 16 reviews, try the hash browns.

When you use non-Google apps to see Google Maps, the app maker needs to acquire a special access code and embed it in the app itself. The app uses the access code to retrieve map data to be displayed. If the app maker doesn't pay Google, and the app doesn't let you click on the little icons on the map to see advertising, then the app is limited to a specific amount of map data per month. The app maker pays for a bigger data quota unless the app maker convinces Google that the users are also getting to play with map advertisements.

 

[patratel64]

Google is first and foremost an advertising company. Search engines and maps are just a loss leader to bring user's eyeballs to the advertisements, so the advertisers will pay Google. No ads, no revenue, no Google, so they lock down the data.

When you use Google apps to see Google Maps, you are able to access all the ads that Google is listing. What's that building? Oh, it's a Denny's restaurant, 3 stars, open 24 hours, 16 reviews, try the hash browns.

When you use non-Google apps to see Google Maps, the app maker needs to acquire a special access code and embed it in the app itself. The app uses the access code to retrieve map data to be displayed. If the app maker doesn't pay Google, and the app doesn't let you click on the little icons on the map to see advertising, then the app is limited to a specific amount of map data per month. The app maker pays for a bigger data quota unless the app maker convinces Google that the users are also getting to play with map advertisements.

Ok, thanks, I understand. Tell me please, Dji Go 3 what maps are using ?

 

[patratel64]

Please share.

 

[Snuff182]

Another question, why an american has to pay 999 USD for a Mavic and I, an European Comunity Citizen have to pay for the same item 1282 USD ? In what pocket enter the 283 UDS ???

Well, That's how import/export "stuff" works. Anything being traded across boarders involves rules/regulations depending on what it is and where it is coming from, and where it is going. Trade agreements/taxes/tariffs, and that's just between major countries and trading partners, much less local municipalities. For instance, taxes vary, in the US between states, counties and towns. Same with Canada, however they have environmental handling fees, for most electronics, (especially those with batteries) - All this before we even get into differences in costs of shipping to various parts of the world vs others, established shipping routes, the cost of using one partner for shipping to one part of the world vs another...(sometimes you just have to go around a continent) and how strong 1 currency is compared to another. - Its not as simple as you might think. Its really not apples to apples.

 

[allen deckard]

Another question, why an american has to pay 999 USD for a Mavic and I, an European Comunity Citizen have to pay for the same item 1282 USD ? In what pocket enter the 283 UDS ???

Because you get free healthcare with the collected taxes.
We pay less for the drone but have to take the 283 and send it to our insurance providers.
Hehe