What's your major malfunction this time, Drifter, are you confusing "vendor lock-in" with "brand recognition"?
No. I just winced at the thought of competing with Google because I can buy cheap supercomputers.
Its a terrible plan.
Not really. It's the name and their basic free service strategy you have to beat. The latter probably impossible to beat, the former not so much as there's some online dislike for Google's Big Brotherish nature.
Some online dislike. Yeah, I know. Multiply that online dislike by a million, it might start to approach one percent. You seem to forget, you are abnormal. And I mean no disrespect, its not the insulting usage of the word. But for every one of you, there are probably about 10,000 who have no feelings of hostility whatsoever about Goog. And thats probably lowballin' it.
Granted, that niche would be sizable enough to make some money off. If (big if) that slim minority would all lemming to one other device (for lack of a better word). But they're quirky, and scattered, and each geek of that nature has his own particulars. Some likes "this" some likes "that", some likes the other.
What could it possibly take to bring them all home? A benevolent, open-source freeware probably, wikipedia-like, where there are no ulterior motives except to freely disseminate data to whoever participates. Like one big fuckin' torrent that we all host the stream in a cloud. But then, who would get paid? Probably nobody. Which renders the concept of the aforementioned supercomputers useless, ridiculous, impossible, expensive, goofy, gay and stupid. If the template resides on your machine, and the data populates by query, it need not be hosted centrally. Your ad would be hosted by yourself, and your encouragement would be throughput bandwidth allocation resulting in higher rank. Fatter pipes, more hits. Right?
The only thing big enough to crush goog is that which is bigger, and that is the net itself. Thats the only way Ham-heads "vendor lock-in" would abandon goog. He's thinking little popcorn-fart shit about servers and whatnot. Mr big-fuckin-scientific computerman. You can't beat the giant with another giant, can't be done. Its gotta be organic, cellular. I donno what the fux with that russian, Brede. He's like smart covered in retard sauce. Explain to him that which I cannot properly articulate, would'ja? Supercomputers, jesus, what is this, the sixties? Fifteen years out, he's in 1986. Fuck. There is no privacy in servers, whoever owns them will ultimately be owned. But in an ownerless flood, everyone is anonymous if they want to be. If you have a few gigs dedicated to constantly being overwritten while you're connected to the flood, you can't be held responsible for whats in it. Thats probably the end of the nets, huge pipes, stacked chips, and just
wooosh, will they ever allow that? Probly not.