Turns out Google culturally has a hard time playing nice with other large partners? Color me shocked.
Minor story as perspective. Initiative was hatched to extend Google Maps Street View inside of buildings. High level meetings were held. No technical roadblocks.
Deal eventually killed, because Google was unwilling to provide their raw data to the buildings' owner, for their own uses.
You're hamstringing a feature on your own app because you don't want to ship the data you collect to the person you're collecting it from? mind boggles
Minor story as perspective. Initiative was hatched to extend Google Maps Street View inside of buildings. High level meetings were held. No technical roadblocks.
Deal eventually killed, because Google was unwilling to provide their raw data to the buildings' owner, for their own uses.
You're hamstringing a feature on your own app because you don't want to ship the data you collect to the person you're collecting it from? mind boggles