Your Google TV Just Got Even Less Useful
This entry was posted on 11/23/2010 12:55 PM and is filed under uncategorized.
Want your MTV? How about Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, BET, or for that matter, anything from Fox, ABC, NBC, or CBS?
Viacom, that big, honkin' cable company, has just blocked its tastiest content from the Goog's set-top box (and Sony's all-in-one TV).
While the Goog makes hints that TV networks just don't get it when it comes to innovation, it continues to try to imitate cable TV -- and the networks are wise to the audience-sucking plan that the Gogg has cooked up for them.
Google just doesn't get it, when it comes to understanding how networks work. They're resistant to working with the networks for mutual financial benefit, rather than trying to bleed them dry. It appears that it never occurred to Google that somebody has to produce and pay for those shows that they want to pipe into living rooms without paying for the right to do so.
So Google's business model hasn't changed a bit in the years it has been in business: see a business model, try to imitate it so that its customers will try your wares, and when that's not enough, create software or hardware to vacuum up customers who want to use that company's products.
The only reason these dumb moves continue to work for Goog is that they have a ton of ad money from all the hapless businesspeople who are scrambling to stay relevant on their search engine.
