I understand that the mere thought of Google involvement is enough to make us all overly optimistic right now, but consider this.
How many instances in computing can you think of where Google has used another vendors service? I can't think of too many.
They've got OS, browsers, phones, doc/data suites, image browsers/editors, video service, etc. The majority of their product line is free. Do no evil, they say.
They've got many of the worlds best computer engineers working for them.
I'm inclined to believe that if Google were to use TPMs, they'd engineer their own management software and provide it to customers for free, just like everything else they do.
And as for the speculation to the SP, for more than a decade we have always tried to come up with the conspiracy theory as to why it's up - and always been disappointed. It's fun to speculate, but how many times can we go down this road? Just wait for real news to react to, rather than fancy what might be happening, and inevitably isn't.
And also, maybe it was AWK who said it, I don't recall. But I agree that the general computing world / state of TPMs and computer security / awareness of encryption is more likely the reason for increasing volume and SP.
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