The limiting factor is Google has undergone the same transformation as nearly all market-leading companies go - their function has changed from innovation and d

The limiting factor is Google has undergone the same transformation as nearly all market-leading companies go - their function has changed from innovation and disruption to protecting their markets and rent-seeking. They're too large now to do anything without it being prohibitively difficult and expensive. The day I read an article announcing they'd hired the former CFO of Morgan Stanley, and she would be focusing on "cost containment", I knew Google Fiber was dead.