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Let's take a poll: How many people here understand that Google is doing this because Internet connections are a complement of your personal data, which they wou
by ArbitraryLimits 14y ago
Let's take a poll: How many people here understand that Google is doing this because Internet connections are a complement of your personal data, which they would like to monetize, and not out of the goodness of their hearts?
- zachrose 14y agoRequisite HN contrarianism: IPs make money. What if Google wants a slice of that? What if Google wants to grow the pie of Internet usage? What if Google Search and related products make money from targeted advertising, but the company is thinking other ways to make money as well?
- pwny 14y agoLet's take a poll: How many people here understand that Google is a corporation and therefore has making money as its primary goal? Seriously, what would be wrong from a corporate standpoint would be for Google to be doing this out of the goodness of their heart, not the opposite. You don't like it, don't use it. I bet you'll have a real easy time finding someone to pull fiber to your house and provide you with gigabyte internet without trying to monetize it. Welcome to capitalism, I'm personally quite happy with it.
- ArbitraryLimits 14y agoI wasn't complaining that Google is a nameless, faceless, soulless corporation just like the ISPs, just trying to remind people.
- eavc 14y agoBoth Android and this move are as much motivated by defensive interests as anything else.