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I watched a story a little while back on googles proposed second stock offering, where the newsfolk were scratching their heads wondering what google will do with all their money from the ipo and the second offering...i think its 7 billion or something like that?
Maybe I'm just too quick to connect the dots, but I see google putting out metropolitan wireless internet access for free, a large scale email system that has plugins to allow you to store files on it, and discussions of google offering web based applications for word processing, budgeting and so forth.
So whats the leap from that to google becoming essentially the broadcast television of the internet? Offer everyone free wireless access, email, applications and web search. The catch being you have to watch advertisements, either generic or targetted, the entire time, just like broadcast tv? Optionally offer a premium service where you pay extra for additional goodies and/or a little less or no advertising?
Basically cut almost every non-content provider out of the system. You wouldnt need much hardware at home except for an access appliance with a screen, keyboard and network connection. You wouldnt need operating systems, applications software, and all the service and support required.
The folks who make high powered and/or high density servers and networking hardware would benefit. It would all but kill microsoft, intel and the rest of that ilk.
Is it feasible?
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