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Wrong wrong wrong. OP, comments, parent, children, all wrong. Tim Wu, Master Switch, monopoly over distribution channels - that is the answer. Either google
by rsync 13y ago
Wrong wrong wrong. OP, comments, parent, children, all wrong.
Tim Wu, Master Switch, monopoly over distribution channels - that is the answer. Either google ceases to exist or it becomes Ma Bell.
There's no third way, and all of the things that google does that seem confusing make perfect sense if you view them through the prism of trying to become The Phone Company.
- jmspring 13y agoMaybe I am missing why this is top comment...more comment to the discussion would be helpful.
- wreegab 13y agoI think he/she is saying to stop idealizing an entity which primary purpose is to increase shareholders equity. I sure agree with him/her if it's what he/she meant.
- ronilan 13y agoSome things make sense, but surely not all; and surely not all as means to serve that goal. For example, storing all the world's videos makes sense while taking the entire social experience of college and putting it online does not.