Google is laying off employees at Waze
www.theverge.com
It’s unclear how many jobs will be cut.

Firing the sales team = less income = some higher up will see declining profits = it will be killed

  • @UnmeltedByRainEnglish
    33•11 months ago

    I’d like to see more Waze features integrated into Google Maps.

    • @TehWorldEnglish
      24•11 months ago

      A lot of the data is shared back and forth, but yeah the tools are much better in Waze.

      • @PabloPicassholeEnglish
        33•11 months ago

        The reports of police and obstacles are also super useful and more plentiful then in Gmaps

        • kestrel7
          1•11 months ago

          And that is why Waze has to go away. It’s giving people info on cops, so that’s becoming politically inconvenient for Google.

          • @ward2k
            3•11 months ago

            But you can also report police speed traps on Google Maps too? (At least in the UK not sure if it differs by country)

    • khelmr
      3•11 months ago

      Same. I’m surprised that they haven’t merged the apps years ago. I thought it was only a matter of time, but Waze continued to exist for many years.

      • techno_analyst
        5•11 months ago

        Waze is quite a different experience than Google Maps when driving, so it’s made sense to keep them as two separate apps.

        Google Maps is “I want to get from point A to point B in a normal way.”

        Waze is “I want the most aggressively quick way; no back street is too small for me.”

        I feel like OP has gone too far with the editorialised headline this time, as the only thing that’s happening at this point is switching Waze over to use the standard Google ad platform rather than their custom system.