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Matt_____Smith But they *do* control the infrastructure of the internet in a meaningful way. I'm going to oversimplify here but...Permalink On twitter.com
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Matt_____Smith The problem is the distance between your computer and the computer streaming games at you and they own a lot of computers in a lot of places so they own the meaningful infrastructure for unassociated reasons which they can take advantage of to make this work.Permalink On twitter.com
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Matt_____Smith If I wanted to start up a game streaming company I'd have to buy the computing power and bandwidth from them, or Amazon, or Microsoft or something. So I'd have to pay for a thing they already have, and then I'd have to pay for the capacity to scale, which they already have.Permalink On twitter.com
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Matt_____Smith But then on top of that because they already know what the disposition of their machines are they know when and where they have computing power available and can spend a lot less acquiring it while secure in not causing lag.Permalink On twitter.com
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Matt_____Smith So it is like... doubled advantage to Google. And then some.Permalink On twitter.com
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Matt_____Smith That's not even getting into the fact that Google has another advantage because in a number of place they are actually laying down fiber, which means they own the pipes that everything travels through in some areas too which is yet another cost they can ignore, that others can'tOn twitter.com
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