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Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Google only does two things.

Roll out a product REALLY well then ignore it forever leaving it an amazing state that everyone loves and is insanely consumer friendly before randomly deciding to axe it with no reason.

Or roll out a product REALLY well then promptly over monetize it forever ruining everything good the engineers did in the first place. Thus making it very extremely unconsumer friendly.

They have no middle ground.