Poll: Should Google take a stand against Verizon over Wallet?

A very interesting strategic question: When to fight over key system components as Android becomes the dominant mobile platform.

If Google waits this out the carriers will probably just screw up payments they way they did streaming video and games.

But Android’s growing strength may make regulators less willing to support Google later when they want to ensure universal access to their services, especially given Google’s bare-knuckles tactics to prevent third party apps markets.

My first move would be to submit Wallet to Amazon’s app store. If it is accepted, it gives lots of consumers access to the app and makes carriers look unnecessarily restrictive. If it is rejected it makes Amazon look bad and shows Google trying to work reasonably with competitors to deliver consumer choice.

If Google fights Verizon, Google fights Android!!! Android is activated by the masses in droves because it is forced upon the masses by a closed stream of corporate power players: OEM’s, Carriers, and big retail chains. Not thinking deep we say, what? its open!. Wake up. no! its not. They all market Android! Yes if you are awake you can choose another platform. But most eat the information they are fed! Its no secrete, that’s why companies spend big bucks on commercials, it works! Google would be undermining its own aggressive strategy, rather than undermining competition by controlling the supply chain to consumers with a “free” meal ticket strategy for corporations. Would it be a good idea for a cocaine producer to fight their pushers on the street? the Answer is no, not if they want the masses on their coke. “Open” is an illusion for the non thoughtful to parrot. Android is in the masses, because the subsidized model feeds the greed instinct. Carriers push Android, this is eyeball to eyeball sales! OEM’s manufacture a massive amount of the product, they push it to big retail partners. Google leveraged the “free” meal ticket psychology. Remember Enron?, remember credit default swaps? The”free” meal ticket is a powerful intoxicant. Google knows this, they leveraged it as their core bossiness model, after all, our data traffic is their $$$$$$$$money$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. Its not about what can work, its about what they want to do to make money, second is how they are going to spin it so when swallowing the bullshit you don’t choke on the tail. Google won’t fight Verizon!