alt Hacker NewsI wonder why Google doesn’t bother competing with Microsoft in the flight simulation niche. All that Google Maps data would be pretty cool to use for that purpose, but instead we’ve got only this toy feature inside Google Earth.
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mschuster91 • today at 3:04 PM
> I wonder why Google doesn’t bother competing with Microsoft in the flight simulation niche.
Because the competition is already fierce. There's MS Flight Simulator and X-Plane on the commercial side, Flightgear on the open source side and geo-fs.com on the free-to-play side.
There is not much Google can actually gain from making their own flight simulator.
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High development and/or maintenance cost, low profit.