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mouser:
Interesting read:

We should have stopped believing the "don’t be evil" hype some years ago. Google has long asked to be treated as something special. But it’s special in only one way: its capacity for audacity.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38645475/





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Gothi[c]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmT6gGpwmUU

JavaJones:
This one is definitely pissing me off. There have been various Google issues in the past, but I honestly feel like they've done a *decent* job of not "being evil" for such a large company. But they're starting to cross the line, and it was probably inevitable.

- Oshyan

mouser:
longer article on wired:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/08/why-google-became-a-carrier-humping-net-neutrality-surrender-monkey

None of this is a good sign for Hulu, Netflix, or any other competing video service, given what the telecoms did to VoIP companies like Vonage, and DVR companies like TiVo, which promised to revolutionize phone calls and television respectively, only to see the major telecoms and cable companies mimic their inventions and price them out of the market with anti-competitive bundle deals.

Hulu and Netflix await the same fate. Google is just fine with that, the same way that it’s fine with screwing the American public out of an open wireless net. Google got theirs, and as far as it’s concerned, that’s all that matters.
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zridling:
Google (and Verizon and Apple) have definitely made sure that all future mobile computing will suck chunks. This horse crap is pure EVIL in all caps. So much for slogans, Google.

What I don't understand is how this is even allowed, period. You SELL a DEVICE, of which the phone part of the device is the least used! I can make phone calls from any PC, but does any PC (including a Mac) come with the restriction that I must use the ISP that the PC manufacturer chooses for me? WTF, man! No one would ever buy a carrier-dependent PC.

Be sure to check out Ryan Singel's excellent analysis of this total suckfest: Why Google Became A Carrier-Humping, Net Neutrality Surrender Monkey.

May I say that Google sucks as bad as Apple (in my view).  >:( I'm considering not having a phone at all, just using skype here and there when I need to. It will certainly confuse the bill collectors.

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