How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance
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Re: How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance
#2Surprising to see competition in a space that is so dominated by Google. I hoped it’d be some open source endeavor, but seeing the link was Forbes I shouldn’t have gotten my hopes up... that said competition and options is good!
Re: How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance
#3I have no evidence to support it, but this article feels like bought and paid for PR.
Re: How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance
#4Surprising to see competition in a space that is so dominated by Google. I hoped it’d be some open source endeavor, but seeing the link was Forbes I shouldn’t have gotten my hopes up... that said competition and options is good!
It's not surprising at all. Google have essentially built a moat that is very hard to cross: https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat
Re: How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance
#5Not so surprising after Google's recent pricing changes. They reduced the free tier by an order of magnitude and 10xed prices.
Google maps is no longer good for hobby projects as the free tier is so low.
It's like they're trying to drive away everybody but but big enterprise shops.
Re: How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance
#6Mapbox has some really cool tech. They care a lot about rendering performance and do a lot of open-source work in the GPU vector graphics space; e.g. https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js
I've always enjoyed chatting with their engineers about vector graphics stuff. :)
Re: How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance
#7I have no evidence to support it, but this article feels like bought and paid for PR.
Because it's in Forbes?
Re: How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance
#8Surprising to see competition in a space that is so dominated by Google. I hoped it’d be some open source endeavor, but seeing the link was Forbes I shouldn’t have gotten my hopes up... that said competition and options is good!
Much of the data they use is open source, coming from OpenStreetMap.
Re: How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance
#9Not so surprising after Google's recent pricing changes. They reduced the free tier by an order of magnitude and 10xed prices. Google maps is no longer good for hobby projects as the free tier is so low. It's like they're trying to drive away everybody but but big enterprise shops.
That's probably a good business strategy for the future of Maps. The fewer clients you have, the more focused you can be in terms of product development and pricing. This is true in many businesses, actually.
Re: How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance
#10Not so surprising after Google's recent pricing changes. They reduced the free tier by an order of magnitude and 10xed prices. Google maps is no longer good for hobby projects as the free tier is so low. It's like they're trying to drive away everybody but but big enterprise shops.
Maybe they are. There's a huge difference in approach between the two. With enterprise customers, customer support will be very different for example.