Google Cloud’s acquisition of edge computing software company MobiledgeX for an undisclosed sum has been greeted by some commentators as a failure for the company’s ambition of providing an independent platform for operators that keeps the hyperscalers at arm’s length, coming four years after Deutsche Telekom founded the company early in 2018. It can certainly be seen as a strategic failure, although it looks like DT had given up on the idea of being independent of hyperscalers some time ago, having conceded total ownership of MobiledgeX in 2020 when the company raised external funding from VMware, Samsung, SK Telekom, Worldwide Technologies and Odin Ventures. That was presented as a step to dilute ownership among multiple operators to prevent…