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I think it's shocking to a lot of people because Google has long claimed that "what's good for the internet is good for [Google]". It was something more concret

I think it's shocking to a lot of people because Google has long claimed that "what's good for the internet is good for [Google]". It was something more concrete than just the nebulous "don't be evil". It stood for support of open-standards, better infrastructure (such as their work on revising DNS) and none of the walled-garden bullshit the entrenched players relied on. To see them compromise those principles on the wireless side of the fence is hugely disappointing and, frankly, quite puzzling in its apparent short-sightedness.

yanw 16y ago
It's a non-binding, non-changing bullshit agreement.
- dschobel 16y ago
  It represents a very real change in position. Everyone thought, naively perhaps, that google was going to liberate the mobile phones of america whether the carriers liked it or not. This then is a non-aggression pact with the carriers showing that carrier crippled phones and services are here to stay.