Yes, Bing Maps does charge - in my case, I could use it under our existing corporate license (so that didn't factor into the decision). I am not sure how competitive the pricing structure is vs. what Google announced. Like Nathan says $10K sounds cost effective me me (as a corporate user) - but I expect a lot other developers will be hit hard.
The discussion regarding presenting HTML5 views VS. native views is one I have daily. For now, the native experience is superior to a web view. That is doubly true when we factor in the native Android Map experience, which truly is great (rich variety of data/layers, offline mode, vector based rendering. etc). The articles I am reading about the licensing specifically call out the Web APIs. If they do not charge for Android access to the APIs now, I expect they will soon (so we better budget for that in the future just in case). The writing is on the wall - Google is going to start charging for their services (they locked down the Translation API a few months ago). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-discuss/-/nchCrkPD5zgJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
