Why is Google getting all the heat from this? Any concessions on neutrality in that non-biding agreement is to appease Verizon, why not get angry at them or at the other internet companies that stood idly by and let Google handle the net neutrality burden?
I think it's shocking to a lot of people because Google has long claimed that "what's good for the internet is good for [Google]". It was something more concrete than just the nebulous "don't be evil". It stood for support of open-standards, better infrastructure (such as their work on revising DNS) and none of the walled-garden bullshit the entrenched players relied on.
To see them compromise those principles on the wireless side of the fence is hugely disappointing and, frankly, quite puzzling in its apparent short-sightedness.
It represents a very real change in position. Everyone thought, naively perhaps, that google was going to liberate the mobile phones of america whether the carriers liked it or not.
This then is a non-aggression pact with the carriers showing that carrier crippled phones and services are here to stay.
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Why is Google getting all the heat from this? Any concessions on neutrality in that non-biding agreement is to appease Verizon, why not get angry at them or at the other internet companies that stood idly by and let Google handle the net neutrality burden?
I think it's shocking to a lot of people because Google has long claimed that "what's good for the internet is good for [Google]". It was something more concrete than just the nebulous "don't be evil". It stood for support of open-standards, better infrastructure (such as their work on revising DNS) and none of the walled-garden bullshit the entrenched players relied on.
To see them compromise those principles on the wireless side of the fence is hugely disappointing and, frankly, quite puzzling in its apparent short-sightedness.
It's a non-binding, non-changing bullshit agreement.
It represents a very real change in position. Everyone thought, naively perhaps, that google was going to liberate the mobile phones of america whether the carriers liked it or not.
This then is a non-aggression pact with the carriers showing that carrier crippled phones and services are here to stay.