{"id":207768,"date":"2022-12-09T16:21:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T15:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=207768"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:16:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:16:05","slug":"google-targets-waze-app-graveyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-targets-waze-app-graveyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Google targets Waze for its app graveyard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Wall Street Journal recently broke the news that Google Maps<\/a> and Waze<\/a> are merging. The move forms part of cost-cutting measures initiated recently by Google\u2019s CEO, Sundar Pichai. Among others, Pichai\u2019s cost-cutting has shut down Project Loon<\/strong>, Google Stadia, the Google Pixel laptop division, and half of Area 120.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, to be clear, the statement that Google\u2019s PR team issued to the Wall Street Journal doesn\u2019t spell out the demise of Waze. In fact, Google took an optimistic position and stated that it \u2018remains deeply committed to Waze\u2019s unique brand, its beloved app<\/strong>, and its thriving community of volunteers and users.\u2019 The company also stated furthermore that \u2018Google said it planned to maintain Waze as a stand-alone service.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, we saw the same kind of abject optimism about the future of Google Stadia, which, as it turned out, was far from secure as the entity is now dead<\/strong>. Google <\/a>kept circulating news that Google Stadia would not be discontinued. However, two months later, Google Stadia was gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We need to keep in mind that this sort of acquire and integrate approach is something that Google often engages in. Google has a healthy track record of buying out competing software and integrating it into its own alternatives. Even though, for the moment, Waze is simply joining Google\u2019s Geo Dvision<\/strong> along with Google Maps, it\u2019s very likely that the two entities will be merged in the near future.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waze <\/a>has long been a superior navigational tool as it not only shows more efficient routes than Google Maps, but also encourages users to engage with one another by reporting incidents on the road. Even after pushing traffic reports<\/strong> to Google Maps, the company has not managed to make the same impact that Waze has. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It makes only logical sense for strong elements of Waze to be ported to Google Maps, and for the Waze name to eventually die.\u00a0In other Google news, is the Google car on the way?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Wall Street Journal recently broke the news that Google Maps and Waze are merging. The move forms part of cost-cutting measures initiated recently by Google\u2019s CEO, Sundar Pichai. Among others, Pichai\u2019s cost-cutting has shut down Project Loon, Google Stadia, the Google Pixel laptop division, and half of Area 120.\u00a0 Now, to be clear, the … Continue reading “Google targets Waze for its app graveyard”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9222,"featured_media":207766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1443],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-207768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-waze"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322770,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207768\/revisions\/322770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207768"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=207768"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=207768"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=207768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}