Startup Ola slashes prices to zero for a year in apparent response
Google has slashed the prices for access to its Maps API in India, the week after a competitor entered the market.
A previous price tier that saw developers charged $4.00 for between one and five million requests will drop to $0.38.Critically, the price drops are only offered to"India-based customers that incur a large majority of usage in India and are billed in India." So no moving your code to India, people.
To date, India's competition authorities appear not to have considered whether Google's actions warrant its attention. But local regulators have previously gone after Google over its
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