DickM

Google's Android Will Lead to New Class of Mobile Internet Devices

to MrMarket
There are so many IFS in this scenereo - - all they have to do is get the spectrum, all they have to do is provide free internet, all they have to do is get everybody to adopt Android, all they have to do is get PC users to use a phone exclusively, all they have to do is get the whole world to enter connectivity through Google, all they have to do is get every corporation to funnel their ads through Google Android, - - all they have to do is get AT&T, Microsoft, Apple, - - - to sit around and watch them take over the internet. But you are right that the government might also take a dim view of all of this. Ditto for foreign governments. And let us not forget that all of this doesn't come free. And let us not forget that Mother Lode is really money from other corporations, spent on advertising. And if this money spent on advertising doesn't yield results it will dry up in an eye blink. Just remember, nobody likes a monopoly including the government. In short, there are a multitude of reasons why this will never fly. And free internet connectivity will never yield the dream they envision for the simple reason that most people don't want a pop up ad driven internet experience - - . Think of the Facebook debacle now in making where the real driving force was this notion that advertisers could glean personal information and then exploit it to their benefit, something they could not otherwise do economically. It wasn't consumer driven, it was greed driven - - a sure formula for failure.