Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company

spicehoarder@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Zetta@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  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.

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• Test_Tickles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  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.

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• Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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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  • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Maps

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    • Janx@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you don’t think Google Maps has started enshittifying, you haven’t been paying attention.

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      • discocactus@lemmy.world ⁨56⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Luckily OSM has matured considerably.

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• fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There exist places outside of the bay area.

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      • Archer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        and California. I wish I could get SONIC

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• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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