'In its Maps API, Google has long offered a free or very cheap product, allowing it to achieve market dominance. Now it’s making a classic monopolistic move: Google announced last year that it’s raising its mapping prices significantly, leading developers across the web to freak out because Google Maps is “light years ahead of its competitors.”'
Dear developers: you made your bed. Now lie in it.
https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-google-out-of-my-life-it-screwed-up-everything-1830565500