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From: Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi>
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Subject: Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 13:54:24 +0200
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Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> writes:

>   And I still don't see an explanation *why* they are doing/changing
> this. Only that each of your devices will keep its own Timeline, but I
> think that's more a disadvantage than a feature.

Maybe there's no or too little market for the location data? It's the
only reason I can think of, considering it's Google. So maybe there're
now so many apps snarfing up location data, Google can't find buyers? At
least at the prices they want? Or everyone who wants that data already
built it into their app so no market?