True but I always felt that GGC telegraphed Google's move into richer data streams (like video, and potentially telephony) so having the information out there would cause people to understand they were a competitor not a partner. Looking at it from the outside, both the challenges in the Google TV project and the Apple TV project stem, in part, by vigorous roadblocking on the part of the content providers. So you partner with Xfinity for the last might, great, but you have the capability to pump better content over that pipe than they do? Not so great.
The bottom line seems to be the less you know the harder it is to guess what they can and cannot do.