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DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome

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Re: DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome

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Post by genericone »

cerebra wrote: post #3

This...doesn't seem like a good idea.

Yeah, especially if this breaks Chrome Remote Desktop in any way, seems like that capability would be tied into the Google ecosystem... I wonder how long we will have to say goodbye to the simplest remote desktop that has ever existed.

Re: DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome

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Post by the_mitsuhiko »

okdood64 wrote: post #10
rvz wrote: post #4

That really does not come as a surprise and that was totally expected. [0] As soon as Chrome started to become more of a platform (for their extension API) with many other companies using it in their own browsers, it tells you why they had >90% of the search market for years. This is what the folks at Google have all feared and why they started to run away from the company, spurring up 'Google' competitors (including…

Who would buy Chrome and why would they buy it? And why would they be trusted to not do something nefarious?

Anyone with a search engine or equivalent product to sell that is not a monopoly.

Re: DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome

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Post by steego »

cerebra wrote: post #3

This...doesn't seem like a good idea.

Not to be dramatic, but from a security perspective, it feels a little like the scene in Ghost Busters where the EPA inspector orders a Con Ed worker to shut down the containment system.

I'm trying to imagine all the operational implications and this particular suggestion feels hasty.

I'm open to hearing different opinions.

Re: DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome

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Post by elmerfud »

So I understand trying to break up monopolistic companies to provide better competition in the market which is generally better for the consumer as a whole. This strategy of saying Chrome should be sold off seems strange to me because unlike other monopolies Google's monopoly with Chrome is fundamentally different.

Since Chrome at its core is the open source chromium browser engine the ability for your competition to leverage what you do is already there. The dynamic here is fundamentally different than many other monopolies of the past due to this fact. It must be asked are people gravitating toward Chrome because they feel there is no other viable option to offer a similar experience or is it because they choose that because it feels to them to be the best choice to make in a free market.

Re: DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome

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Post by mikepurvis »

genericone wrote: post #11
cerebra wrote: post #3

This...doesn't seem like a good idea.

Yeah, especially if this breaks Chrome Remote Desktop in any way, seems like that capability would be tied into the Google ecosystem... I wonder how long we will have to say goodbye to the simplest remote desktop that has ever existed.

If getting more open protocols/APIs for that kind of thing is a consequence of this then I’ll take it.

Next please make Apple open up all the secret integration between iOS and Watch so that Fitbit and others can more fairly compete.

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