Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I’ll never understand the fanboys who glaze google.
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.
Maps
If you don’t think Google Maps has started enshittifying, you haven’t been paying attention.
Luckily OSM has matured considerably.
Yeah it has but it has improved with features and had a long time being the high water mark
google fiber was a special case where they were introducing much needed competition to the nearly monopolized ISP market.
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.
For those of us who are old enough to remember peak Google, it is understandable.
They revolutionized and opened up so many things that were grossly monopolized before they got involved. Android broke the telecoms insane grip on cell phone designs and features. Several people have already mentioned how Google fiber changed things in local connectivity, but Google dramatically changed global connectivity way before Google fiber. There used to be only a few international (under sea) connections, and not only was it slow and congested, but entire continents could just drop off the internet for weeks or even months at a time. They broke MS Office’s death grip on basic productivity tools. There was a time where private individuals, even grade school students were required to buy an entire professional productivity (Office) in order to deliver basic school work like writing essays. I can think of almost a dozen ways right off the top of my head that they revolutionized the world and really did take the “Do no evil” slogan to heart.
But, as with every company that “goes public”, they slowly changed from "Do no evil’ to “Do know evil” and now they are exactly the soul and life destroying parasites that they used to free us from.
Google did not make Android, they bought it.
That is true.
I use to when I was 14 - 19 but realized how shit they are in many ways as I grew and learned more about the world.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
When Google Fiber came here every ISP shat themselves and dropped prices, and raised speeds. And Google Fiber has been by far the most reliable ISP.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
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.
Serinus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There exist places outside of the bay area.
Archer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
and California. I wish I could get SONIC