The Trend Has Been Mobile Was Winning.

A Mind Set In Its Ways Is Wasted. Don't Do It.

The Issues Of Wireless Versus Wireline Gets Very Messy. And That's Really An Fcc Issue, Not A Google Issue.

Ultimately, Application Vendors Are Driven By Volume, And Volume Is Favored By The Open Approach Google Is Taking. There Are So Many Manufacturers Working So Hard To Distribute Android Phones Globally That Whether You Like [android 4.0] Or Not, You Will Want To Develop For That Platform, And Perhaps Even First.

There's Been Spying For Years, There's Been Surveillance For Years, And So Forth, I'm Not Going To Pass Judgement On That, It's The Nature Of Our Society.

Half Of Google's Revenue Comes From Selling Text-based Ads That Are Placed Near Search Results And Are Related To The Topic Of The Search. Another Half Of Its Revenues Come From Licensing Its Search Technology To Companies Like Yahoo.