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Even worse than Android and turn-by-turn navigation is the example of the Google search pages pushing people towards Google Maps, Finance, Local and other services.

I am sure products like MapQuest etc. have been hurt by the leveraging of monopoly in the same way that Netscape was, but techies seem to believe it's ok since they Google's services. But IE was better than Netscape in those days anyway. It's just that many techies are heavily biased against MS and towards Google and Apple, regardless of the merits of the arguments.



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