> Every time a new chunk of radio spectrum becomes available, Google argues it should be opened to the public. Sounds great—except to telcos that have wanted it for themselves and broadcasters that worry new devices will mess with their transmissions.
> Google's insatiable hunger for data scares even some of its allies. Now its business rivals have launched a privacy crusade to drum up fears that Big Brother lives in Mountain View.
Google wants to compete on a landscape that favors innovation but the old guard (which apparently includes wired) is doing everything they can to stop them.
Just like you argue that the "old guard" are fighting to keep the status quo of how they make money, Google is fighting to make the competitive landscape favor its business model. Neither are evil or good. It's just business.
Calling Google's landscape as favoring innovation is just sugar coating it. At the end of the day Google does not like anything that may disrupt its business; the Wired article is a great example: Google did all it can to stop MS from buying out Yahoo! and succeeded only to find out later that the war was never about Yahoo!.
There is a lot of "wrong" things about Google just as there are a lot of "wrong" things with MS and the "old guard". So please, put down that Google Kool Aid (beta) cup and see the world for what it is: hard nosed business as usual. Google is no angel and it shouldn't be.
> Google's insatiable hunger for data scares even some of its allies. Now its business rivals have launched a privacy crusade to drum up fears that Big Brother lives in Mountain View.
Google wants to compete on a landscape that favors innovation but the old guard (which apparently includes wired) is doing everything they can to stop them.