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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1740011"><p>Harry, a small prediction on my part (not a true prophesy, as we are supposed to stone prophets who get it wrong): Sometime soon, I think, the hardware makers will volunteer to &quot;help&quot; get high speed access out to the remoter areas. Here in the US, Google is already installing fiber backbone to the home in some locations, others will probably follow. That largesse will be, at least in part, motivated by the thought of selling &quot;smart terminals&quot; to the masses and then charging for cloud storage. But to make that scheme work, the high speed network has to be in place. Personally, I think Google just wants to see where everybody is going in the Internet to sell that to their customers, so having control of the internet access will give them the perfect place to filter the packets for that information. Chrome already passes that information to the mothership, as do all Alphabet products, but with the backbone under Google's control, all that data they cannot currently get to will be theirs.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1740011"] Harry, a small prediction on my part (not a true prophesy, as we are supposed to stone prophets who get it wrong): Sometime soon, I think, the hardware makers will volunteer to "help" get high speed access out to the remoter areas. Here in the US, Google is already installing fiber backbone to the home in some locations, others will probably follow. That largesse will be, at least in part, motivated by the thought of selling "smart terminals" to the masses and then charging for cloud storage. But to make that scheme work, the high speed network has to be in place. Personally, I think Google just wants to see where everybody is going in the Internet to sell that to their customers, so having control of the internet access will give them the perfect place to filter the packets for that information. Chrome already passes that information to the mothership, as do all Alphabet products, but with the backbone under Google's control, all that data they cannot currently get to will be theirs. [/QUOTE]

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