What the Tech 157: Babbling About Google

The one where we discuss a Google strategy that actually makes sense

This week on What The Tech, Andrew and Paul discuss whether Google's plan to consolidate all of its communication services into a single brand is a good strategy, Microsoft announces it will automatically push Windows 7 SP1 to individuals, Microsoft's Windows Phone life cycle announcement is misunderstood by everyone, and a Nikon camera could possibly appear in the next Google Nexus phone.

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on Mar 20, 2013

An interesting thing to keep in mind, is that Google is also becoming an ISP:

https://fiber.google.com

I think Google is going to become the most dominant technology company.

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