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Could this not have anti-trust implications?

This seems very analogous to Microsoft's tying of IE and Windows, considering Google's dominant position with regards to maps.



Microsoft was declared a monopoly in large part because there were huge barriers to their users switching to another platform. They were totally locked in.

In the maps world, there's no such lock-in. It's trivial to switch from Google Maps to some other mapping service.




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