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My kids played with it a few times on long drive to tell me where he spotted the police car(s), accidents, etc.

Kind of fun thing for your kids to do on a long drive. That might be why the cartoon like interface.

Like Pokemon Go, the constant network traffic + GUI interaction makes it huge battery drain. I deleted the app from my phone.

Google map's traffic info is very good. I suspect Google paid that much likely because potentially FB, MSFT or Amazon "might" get it and use it is a beach head to enter the Mobile Map App market. If that's the case, it is a very good play on Waze's part to get the high valuation.

parent srcmap 9 years ago

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