This is indeed a stupid move on googles part..... I no more give up using my computer just because I don’t have internet access etc for whatever reason. Entertainment, word processing , photo’s, reading ebooks, watching movies, listening to tunes. Internet is about 20% of my actual PC use.
If google thinks they can replace that and have me rely on “ONE” such a connection for all my media they have gone from google to gaggle.....
At the risk of overusing the phrase, it seems to me that there's a shark about to be jumped.