Five years after the iPhone, carriers are the biggest threat to innovation | The Verge
Ottway Ducard stashed this in mobile
The carriers don't want to give up any more control than they have to.
Is the solution for Google, Microsoft, and Apple to become carriers?
Verizon, Comcast, and AT&T are too expensive but Google, Microsoft, or Apple could afford T-Mobile and/or Sprint (worth roughly $17b and $10b, respectively).
That could get real interesting real fast.
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Since we're on the subject, what ever happened to Google's dark fiber project?