Dieter Bohn, The Verge, on Google’s announcement of their high-speed fiber network in Kansas City:
Google Fiber has finally arrived in Kansas City, offering crazy-fast broadband speeds and a new television service on both sides of the Kansas / Missouri state line. After hinting that it would be unveiled today, the company has made it official. Google is touting 1,000 Mbps download and upload speeds, positioning its service as “100 times faster” than traditional “broadband.”
This is the part of Google I love. What did Apple do when they had services they wanted to give consumers despite the incumbent distributors having no reason to innovate? They built the iPhone, created the App Store, and told carriers to kiss their ass. Likewise, Google is telling incumbents, “You don’t want to help us deliver awesome content to our users in the United States using a modern distribution network? Oh really? Okay … keep your monolithic infrastructure that is a global embarrassment - we’ll build our own means of distribution. Good luck.”