{"id":1908,"date":"2007-11-11T17:13:18","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T22:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/11\/11\/google-as-the-saviour-of-everything\/"},"modified":"2007-11-11T17:13:18","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T22:13:18","slug":"google-as-the-saviour-of-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/11\/11\/google-as-the-saviour-of-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Google as the saviour of everything"},"content":{"rendered":"

So TMCNet blogger Rich Tehrani says he has heard rumours that Google is going to acquire Sprint<\/a>. This is a subject that others have raised<\/a> as well, most often in connection with the much-hyped “Google phone” — which we now know isn’t a phone at all but an open platform. In other words, it’s even less likely that Google would buy Sprint than it was before.<\/p>\n

That’s not likely to stifle the rumour mill, however. Why? I think it’s because Google has effectively become the saviour of everything. What was once a tiny company with a simple service that everyone used and\/or liked has become a globe-spanning colossus with a market value bigger<\/a> than the gross domestic product of a medium-sized country — and so the implication is that Google can do anything.<\/p>\n

What people mean when they say Google should buy Sprint is “Sprint sucks.” When they say Google should come out with a phone, they mean “the cellular phone industry sucks.”<\/a> Similarly, when they say Google should buy Yahoo, or Microsoft, or China, or whatever, that’s shorthand for “those things suck. Google would fix them.”<\/p>\n

Would Google buying Sprint make any sense? Not really. Despite the attempt to compare it to Google<\/a> buying YouTube or Google buying Keyhole (which became Google Earth), it would not be anything like either of those deals. Sprint Nextel is a gigantic conglomeration of telephone poles and legacy PBXes and customer-service desks and trucks and cable. Google needs that like a hole in the head.<\/p>\n

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So TMCNet blogger Rich Tehrani says he has heard rumours that Google is going to acquire Sprint. This is a subject that others have raised as well, most often in connection with the much-hyped “Google phone” — which we now know isn’t a phone at all but an open platform. In other words, it’s even … <\/p>\n

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