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Re: Advancing our amazing bet

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Post by GavinMcG »

fowlerpower wrote: post #13

This is terrible corporate speak. It should be titled "We are killing Google Fiber for any new cities". Why do companies do this? Why sugar coat all of this and why make me think your actually going to expand only to let me down. It's terrible double speak and it does not help your cause, it just makes me dislike your company for two reasons now. One for canceling a service I was excited about and two for being, in m…

It turns out saying "we failed and are canceling a product, again" hurts the stock price more.

Re: Advancing our amazing bet

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Post by sparky_ »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #5

This announcement needs a little bit of translation from the marketing language it's written in: > And thanks to the hard work of everyone on the Access team, our business is solid: our subscriber base and revenue are growing quickly, and we expect that growth to continue. "We're not yet profitable." > We have refined our plan going forward to achieve these objectives. It entails us making changes to focus our busine…

^ That's a great translation. RIP Google Fiber.

Re: Advancing our amazing bet

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Post by fowlerpower »

GavinMcG wrote: post #21
fowlerpower wrote: post #13

This is terrible corporate speak. It should be titled "We are killing Google Fiber for any new cities". Why do companies do this? Why sugar coat all of this and why make me think your actually going to expand only to let me down. It's terrible double speak and it does not help your cause, it just makes me dislike your company for two reasons now. One for canceling a service I was excited about and two for being, in m…

It turns out saying "we failed and are canceling a product, again" hurts the stock price more.

Sure I follow that but I think that the stock will take the hit no matter what.

In the very least be honest with us.

Re: Advancing our amazing bet

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Post by pasbesoin »

As a consumer, the last/most recent product from Google that I "trust" (to be reliable and to stick around) is Google Docs (whatever the current branding). Because they are still "dogfooding" it -- using it internally.

I don't have current cloud app deployment needs -- and until this year, the Google "cloud" seemed to be kind of marginal, anyway, as an impression based upon "osmosis" from various articles and commenting.

I've tried to stick it out with Android, but support and consistency.

Google pushes these projects for a while, to meet or explore its own objectives.

But I don't count on them, anymore.

As an individual consumer, I'm just the product.

P.S. Removing the + operator from search. Still missing it.

P.P.S. Yes, the nature of this comment is a bit rhetorical. But in a serious sense. The occasional comment on HN is the only way I feel I have any maybe effective feedback -- at least, to some individuals at Google who happen by.

Although, after months and months and months, including repeatedly using the error reporting feature within Android to report instances... And finally, shortly after a comment about the behavior on HN, the crashing of the Google Camera app upon "zoom out" on my Nexus 5x, appears to finally be fixed.

Re: Advancing our amazing bet

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Post by fowlerpower »

yabatopia wrote: post #20
fowlerpower wrote: post #13

This is terrible corporate speak. It should be titled "We are killing Google Fiber for any new cities". Why do companies do this? Why sugar coat all of this and why make me think your actually going to expand only to let me down. It's terrible double speak and it does not help your cause, it just makes me dislike your company for two reasons now. One for canceling a service I was excited about and two for being, in m…

Not just for new cities. Reading between the lines they're basically saying that they're shutting down and current assets are up for sale. I wonder who will pick up the pieces?

ISPs need to be disrupted so badly. This was actually one of the few initiatives that I thought would really force everyone to change.

Re: Advancing our amazing bet

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Post by meshko »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #5

This announcement needs a little bit of translation from the marketing language it's written in: > And thanks to the hard work of everyone on the Access team, our business is solid: our subscriber base and revenue are growing quickly, and we expect that growth to continue. "We're not yet profitable." > We have refined our plan going forward to achieve these objectives. It entails us making changes to focus our busine…

Thanks, nice job. I must say I am more saddened by the way Google chose to word it than by the fact that they are killing it.

Re: Advancing our amazing bet

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Post by cpayne »

fowlerpower wrote: post #13

This is terrible corporate speak. It should be titled "We are killing Google Fiber for any new cities". Why do companies do this? Why sugar coat all of this and why make me think your actually going to expand only to let me down. It's terrible double speak and it does not help your cause, it just makes me dislike your company for two reasons now. One for canceling a service I was excited about and two for being, in m…

The problem is - what's the alternative? Was it a sackable offence? Very unlikely! Google have shareholders/ investors to keep on side. As others have already have said, you can see through the marketing talk to see what is really being said.

Re: Advancing our amazing bet

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Post by scarmig »

Inconel wrote: post #14

I won't be surprised if this news is met with the usual sentiment that Google abandons everything that isn't immediately hugely successful, and while I often share that criticism of Google, I can't really fault them too much in this case. Getting a nationwide ISP up and running from scratch just seems like an almost impossible task. This is disappointing to me nonetheless. Can someone with knowledge of the industry e…

My totally non-professional opinion is this: the problems of there not being good ISPs in the USA isn't a technical or infrastructure problem, where Google excels. They are instead political and organizational problems. Existing ISPs give as little as they can legally get away with while extracting as much money as possible from customers, by hook or by crook. If Google enters a market to provide a better service, Comcast et al. can easily pretty much flip a switch in that market to start providing a better service to hold onto their disgruntled customers, depriving Google of much of the market it needed to make Fiber profitable.

So Google ends up spending a bunch of money while not being able to capitalize on it.

Re: Advancing our amazing bet

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Post by mholt »

It still boggles my mind why they didn't offer a mid-range service level, say 50Mbps for $15-20/mo. I know more than a handful of students here (including myself) who would pay for that.

I have to admit, it's weird that they came here with such a big hoorah and now they're almost nowhere to be found.

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