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kudos:2 | Why Not? said by Karl Bode:Cable won't much like Google encroaching into their dream territory of localized and behavioral cable TV advertising. Why not? I believe most consumers choose cable or sat TV based on cost and content availability, not which company pushes ads on them. Who knows, maybe Google will solve the cable companies' issues...for a slice of the pie. |
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| Maybe they'd work together -- but the cable industry has 1, been working on their own version of this idea for several years and wants it to work, 2, is stocked with executives who hate Google's guts for their positions on network neutrality, white space broadband, competition, etc.
Perhaps if they can't get Canoe to work they'd turn to Google as a partner, but I doubt they want to if they don't have to. |
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kudos:2 | Agreed. I don't believe cable companies want anything to do with Google. Having said that, I don't think Google partnering with Dish affects the Canoe effort...at least anymore than normal sat TV/cable customer churn rates. |
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said by Karl Bode:...[cable] executives who hate Google's guts for their positions on network neutrality, white space broadband, competition, etc. Agreed. And telco which has overlap with AT&T and Verizon. There's too much bad blood and generalized fear that Google tentacles know no bounds. Broadcast entities are also notorious for protecting turf and being slow to share it even when it would likely advance their own interests.
Karl, you said "and could be discontinued at any time, said the people familiar with the matter." Who might these people be? Smacks of a statement safe to utter due to wide criticism of (or whining about) Google's tendency to dev projects, float them onto a pool of users (often an excited public) then drop them as silently as the project appeared.
Sooo, are these people actually "familiar with the matter" or simply mouthing skepticism due to previous Google Labs behavior?
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| Broadcast entities are also notorious for protecting turf and being slow to share it even when it would likely advance their own interests. And the cable industry isn't exactly known for success or speed when they try to do things uniformly (see: Pivot, Tru2Way, etc.)Karl, you said "and could be discontinued at any time, said the people familiar with the matter." Who might these people be? Smacks of a statement safe to utter due to wide criticism of (or whining about) Google's tendency to dev projects, float them onto a pool of users (often an excited public) then drop them as silently as the project appeared. Fairly typical anonymous quote reporting -- I assume they're either Google or Dish employees simply saying that the project really could be scrapped if either side doesn't like the results or finds the technology doesn't work. |
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