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Originally Posted by Phateless
Realistically, charging for packages of minutes is a scam in the first place, and long obsolete. Every network offers flat-rate, unlimited data plans, which take up a lot more bandwidth than voice does. You can see the unlimited voice plans getting cheaper every day.
It's only a matter of time before wireless becomes completely commoditized and nobody pays for "voice" at all; we'll all buy data-only plans and run everything VOIP.
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4g is exactly this. at least LTE is anyways, everything is handled and run over a complete data network, no more separate signals for voice and data....
i still wanna pose the question to some of the earlier post....
please tell me what google is doing illegally that warrants investigation? as stated by two other people, first googles business model is still primarly based on advertising and search and second, if a company like GE can invest and offer a plethora of services and products across various industries, why not google?
as mentioned before you compared google to microsoft and the trouble that microsoft got into years ago, but as i stated these are very different situations and microsoft got into trouble for a very specific reason.
i am all for google. they make products and services that work and that is what they exist for. they find an idea and they make it work or they try to make it better. it doesnt always work (refer to wave and buzz), but they have numerous things that just make sense and they are always looking to expand.
i am a big fan of apple as well (for various reasons) but what has apple brought to the table lately other than lawsuits? do they really expect me to drool over the fact that we are waiting with bated breath for the macbook revamp!? i mean seriously, you replaced core 2 duo processors with core i5 and core i7? wow game changing.....
but google makes an announcement and people go nuts because usually it is game changing.....wave, while not really taking off yet, is still revolutionary...google tv? sign me up....services and products that work, why is that illegal?
give me the day when everything in my house is google based. no one is forcing me, i am simply making a decision based on what is available on the market.....
rant off....
sorry...