How much would you pay for Google Maps, if there were no alternatives?

I’d prob do $1,000+ / month. 

And yet I get it for free and am hardly ever grateful for it.  

Lesson in there?

prompting @bracky, playing /bracket, reading /greatbooks

There would certainly be cheaper, less fully featured alternatives that would attract the vast majority of users 

But if the premium/paid features were good enough at the right price then it could work

$1000/month is insanity. Maybe $20-$100

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Sir you’re breaking my thought experiment by involving competitors

The point is about the insane value of the thing itself

Imagine doing Rome without it?
(I couldn’t even do without it in nyc when I lived there)

i’d argue we pay an excessive amount in data to use “free” services like google maps. sure, no credit card needed but the massive user profiles they've collected on all of us like our location, searches and behavior are all collected for the purposes of data mining and targeted ads. so yeah it feels free but it’s not

to be clear, i’m cool with most the tradeoffs bc these services enrich our day-to-day lives but it’d be nice to keep a bit of privacy as well

anyway, felt too strongly compelled to scroll past without dropping that lol gm

/rant over

Agree - I said “no alternatives” bc I think the interesting this is that we all get something really valuable for free

I almost think we would love it and value it more if we paid a lot for it

It’s a weird phenomenon of how things got a lot better in a way that’s pretty silent to us

true

value is a separate thing from business model

lots of things are valuable that are hard to monetize

Everyone under the age of 30 is doomed if the apocalypse comes. Y’all really can’t live without it. 

Us olds remember a time with maps and books. We managed just fine