[cbozeman]

That's because Google has shitty leadership that doesn't understand playing the long game. This is why Google's only real source of income is search, and by that, I mean of course, ads.

Google kills any project that's not profitable within a year. They kill any project that doesn't become a 100x'er in a few years.

Microsoft lost $4,000,000,000 to $7,000,000,000 on their Xbox division until the Xbox 360. That's the kind of loss that Google executives and directors can't stomach, for whatever reason, but it's the kind of loss you have to suffer through to get fiber out to a whole state. Google could slowly conquer state after state with fiber, which would be an enormous benefit to them, but they're too cowardly and short-sighted to see it through.