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A Clash of Mindsets: When New Products Depend on Existing Products

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Google Maps started life in 2005 as a desktop application for getting from point A to point B. Since then, Google Maps has become the foundation for many other innovations after being opened up to developers via APIs. In Wardley lingo, Google Maps is so efficient that it acts as a building block for higher-order systems (e.g.