Something like YouTube would have been a much better idea.
DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
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Re: DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
#32This is just the corporate captured government pretending to do something significant as a performative act for an ignorant public.
The DOJ knows this is pointless. The DOJ knows where Google's profits come from.
The DOJ is pretending that thr public still thinks about the internet in terms of Microsoft/Internet Explorer bundling.
Shame on you DOJ for wasting everyone's time and money.
Re: DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
#33Who would possibly buy Chrome? Letting any of the large tech companies purchase it (the only possible buyers) would just give someone else monopolistic power. Chrome can’t exist as a standalone business without being even more consumer hostile.
Very few companies would be able to manage a gigantic project like Chromium.
I happen to be poking around the Chromium codebase the last few days. The size of the codebase itself is at the same level as all of our company's code. Something as important and critical as GPU rendering is only a small part of the entire project. You also have v8, ChromeOS, ANGLE etc to worry about, all requiring experts in those areas. Not to mention things like Widevine and other proprietary technology surrounding Chrome.
Re: DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
#34"make" Mozilla buy it, give em a heaping grant from the Library of Congress to keep the open web open, and be the engine behind every browser keeping things fair... sounds good to me!
In this scenario I’d much rather that heaping grant goes to a newly independent Chromium nonprofit org. Browser engine diversity is a good thing and worth trying to preserve.
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#35Browsers are complicated enough that I don’t see how a company could do the right thing without it being subsidized by a larger business. I feel like this is paving the ground for a Chinese startup to come take its place.
Re: DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
#36So 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…
> It must be asked are people gravitating toward Chrome because
....
It's because Chrome used to be shoved down everyone's throat up until few years ago. Once stable base of users was made (by force and deception) the market took momentum
Re: DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
#37Who would possibly buy Chrome? Letting any of the large tech companies purchase it (the only possible buyers) would just give someone else monopolistic power. Chrome can’t exist as a standalone business without being even more consumer hostile.
ByteDance, or another Chinese company.
Re: DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
#38What is the actual asset to buy precisely? The code is already mostly open. You'd be paying for a user base who could leave at any moment?
If that hadn't forked WebKit DOJ would have to prove collusion instead.
Re: DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
#39Chrome??? Dude. THAT plus: * Android * Search * Advertising * YouTube Smash it into tiny pieces. Then the same for Apple and Facebook. We've been stalled for technological progress for 15+ years. Tear down the giants holding us back.
How is Google holding back android or YouTube?
Re: DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
#40So 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…
> It must be asked are people gravitating toward Chrome because .... It's because Chrome used to be shoved down everyone's throat up until few years ago. Once stable base of users was made (by force and deception) the market took momentum
It also used to be distributed like an adware, bundled with along other softwares during installation.