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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
CMV: Google Fiber is pointless because its being developed so very slowly that the industry will change before fruition.
gpt
That's exactly what they want.

Google doesn't want to provide your internet.  They want to make all the other ISPs provide faster service and they're doing so by making them look bad (not like that takes a lot of work).  They want consumers to know what they could have, forcing ISPs to improve to meet customer expectations.

Look at Google's purchase and sale of Motorola.  They owned Motorola just long enough to release several very good and regularly updated phones for a third of the price of Samsung or Apple phones.  They threw the prepay phone market on their head.  No longer is it viable to release piece of shit Android 2.3 phones and charge $200 when everyone knows you can get a way better phone from Motorola for less money.  The Nexus line is done for the same reason.  It forces a market that Google relies on to be competitive.

Google came in and disrupted these clearly non-competitive markets and then left.  They want everyone to have newer versions of Android on their phones, but they don't want to build phones.  They want everyone to have faster internet, but they don't want to be an ISP.