• Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
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      Google only does two things.

      Roll out a product REALLY well then ignore it forever leaving it an amazing state that everyone loves and is insanely consumer friendly before randomly deciding to axe it with no reason.

      Or roll out a product REALLY well then promptly over monetize it forever ruining everything good the engineers did in the first place. Thus making it very extremely unconsumer friendly.

      They have no middle ground.

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        by the time fiber appeared, SONIC appeared just before, and others was also appearing at the same time in the bay area, fiber was in for a big competition already.

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      google fiber was a special case where they were introducing much needed competition to the nearly monopolized ISP market.

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        Google started bringing fiber to neighboring towns and all of a sudden the cable company started offering speeds 3x faster for less money and AT&T built out a fiber network including in our town, which didn’t get Google for another ten years, and then only a franchise that was paying for the Google name.