It's coming, it's coming ...

[Hammer]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

I think you may find that google in the end dominates their wireless phones, turning a potential money maker for the rest of us into a money pit.

Can you imagine Google getting users to agree to things like link replacements, banner / ad replacements, and perhaps even restricting access is various ways. Can you imagine movies / videos / music only downloadable via google's own PPV interface?

My fear is that as content providers, service providers, and aggregators get into the game, they will take majority or exclusive positions that will either leave them as the sole source, or put them as the sole intermediary for selling content to these users, which will make it very difficult to move forward. Worse for porn people, imagine that those companies decide they don't like adult material. Suddenly, instead of being a huge new market, it is a large shut door (see Itunes / movies and such). Can you imagine the only acceptable video format being something proprietary to Google? A special compression?

It's actually quite worrisome.

Are you aware that Google Adsense now has a mobile version.