[rsync]

Wrong wrong wrong. OP, comments, parent, children, all wrong.

Tim Wu, Master Switch, monopoly over distribution channels - that is the answer. Either google ceases to exist or it becomes Ma Bell.

There's no third way, and all of the things that google does that seem confusing make perfect sense if you view them through the prism of trying to become The Phone Company.

[jmspring]

Maybe I am missing why this is top comment...more comment to the discussion would be helpful.

[wreegab]

I think he/she is saying to stop idealizing an entity which primary purpose is to increase shareholders equity. I sure agree with him/her if it's what he/she meant.

[ronilan]

Some things make sense, but surely not all; and surely not all as means to serve that goal. For example, storing all the world's videos makes sense while taking the entire social experience of college and putting it online does not.