Placebase is now Apple-based
A little over a year ago we were looking at changing our map providers and we went through the usual proposal process with a few folks including Google Maps and Microsoft. But we also looked pretty closely at a little company called Placebase and their map platform PushPin (which I believe was their one and only product). Well it turns out the Apple recently acquired the little company.
Their platform and API support seemed to rival that of their 800lb gorilla competitors and being a small company, we figured we may get better individual support from someone like Placebase. And although I would have loved to have supported the little guy, ultimately we didn’t end up using them… there were a few factors involved, but price was one of them. But nonetheless their offering was impressive. Read more
