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kudos:2 | I love the irony said by Karl Bode:Again Kansas City will be an interesting scenario to watch (and most incumbent executives' worst nightmare) where Google will control the pipe, the ad/content, and the set top hardware. I'm continually amazed when the sentiment is in favor of Google being the monopoly, but quickly turns negative with any other business entity. Hopefully this works out well for everyone. |
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| Hey if others are allowed why not google ?
Personally I think this wreaks of ad revenues instead of a real world test like they said. If this is successful maybe we get lower cost tv subsidized by ads delivered to our tvs, that are actually for products we may want ?
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 El QuintronResident Mouth BreatherPremium
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said by openbox9:I'm continually amazed when the sentiment is in favor of Google being the monopoly, but quickly turns negative with any other business entity. Hopefully this works out well for everyone.
I think the perceived enthusiasm here has more to do with Google raising the bar, rather than Google as a monopoly.
FWIW: When I worked for the incumbent phone company in Ottawa back in 1999-2000 era the only residential internet they offered was overpriced dial-up with no unlimited option. When the cable company showed up with unlimited broadband of all things, people were overjoyed, not only because CableCo's offering was the same price as Telco's dialup offerings, but also because it meant that Telco would be forced to *finally* roll out broadband to compete with Cable.
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Is no different than what Hulu does.. they allow you to click to respond if the ad is or is not relevant to you. You'd think advertisers would love to have that info and would want Google to expand on that. |
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 starreemPremium
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Raleigh, NC | I used to click every single ad was not relevant to me. Then I realized it was like responding "unsubscribe" to spam email, if I clicked, that would just confirm they had a real live viewer. Now I just get up and hit the can, or the fridge. |
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Wait till they all find out the Google turns out to be no different from any other carrier. |
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said by El Quintron:said by openbox9:I'm continually amazed when the sentiment is in favor of Google being the monopoly, but quickly turns negative with any other business entity. Hopefully this works out well for everyone.
I think the perceived enthusiasm here has more to do with Google raising the bar, rather than Google as a monopoly. FWIW: When I worked for the incumbent phone company in Ottawa back in 1999-2000 era the only residential internet they offered was overpriced dial-up with no unlimited option. When the cable company showed up with unlimited broadband of all things, people were overjoyed, not only because CableCo's offering was the same price as Telco's dialup offerings, but also because it meant that Telco would be forced to *finally* roll out broadband to compete with Cable. I see them raising the bar to, cable industry IS a monopoly, and so is the wireless industry, I hope that Google plans more city's in the future and show that these companies have to change!, these cable companies have all this capacity but they lie to the gov and say no we don't we have to charge is complete bull. Fiber will annihilate any cable co it don't matter what the cable company's do. |
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and they've shown that already and will keep doing it. |
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The content owners would have to permit that of course. If Google started taking out ads, they'd pull their rebroadcast rights that second.
Everyone forgets that that Google owns no content and still has to answer to bigger companies that own's what Google will need for their TV. |
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 BigBlarg
join:2008-02-10
Longueuil, QC
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Well, the thing is that Google will most likely offer much better service than others. |
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kudos:2 | reply to BosstonesOwn
said by BosstonesOwn:Hey if others are allowed why not google ? I wasn't suggesting to disallow it, more so the irony of it being acceptable as long as it's Google doing it. |
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openbox9Premium
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kudos:2 | reply to BigBlarg
Umm, how so? I haven't exactly seen Google being a great "service" provider. It likes to throw out a lot of products, but services are a different story IMO. |
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