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DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
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#372Earlier quoted context omitted.
1) does it though? It seems like the Google-specific parts of it are pretty ancillary to the whole experience 2) how is it different to Apples integration with Safari?
> 2) how is it different to Apples integration with Safari? It's only different in the share of the overall market they hold - and it's notable that the EU has already acted to break Apple's monopoly over specifically the iOS browser market.
The EU wrote an entirely new law that designated companies like Apple as 'gate keepers'.
Re: DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
#373Who 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.
They don’t have to sell it. They have to spin it off. Which means an independent company with a C suite, RSUs and a P&L. There’s probably a number of talented people out there who would love to drive that truck.
If the pool they're looking at is "talented people" looking to run a company, it'll be someone who's currently the CEO of 7 other companies and successfully driven each of them into the ground for short term profits, unfortunately.
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#374I'm very surprised by the number of people in this thread who don't seem to understand that monopolies are _very_ bad for consumers.
Monopolies are bad. Splitting up monopolies is good for the consumer. That doesn't mean this makes any sense. How are they going to separate Chrome from Chromium? If they do, what incentive does Google have to keep maintaining Chromium? Can Google make another new fork of Chromium and start yet another browser? Or are they now banned from making browsers? What company has the resources to maintain Chrome's massive co…
Firefox is massively profitable at a fraction of Chrome's marketshare.
Re: DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
#375I'm very surprised by the number of people in this thread who don't seem to understand that monopolies are _very_ bad for consumers.
>monopolies are _very_ bad for consumers
Why? "Big companies bad" are one of those fundamental truthiness we are all supposed to believe for some reason but as a European I wish we had more US/Chinese-style megacorps who have dominant positions in some fields that allows them to innovate or provide free/cost-cutting products in other niches.
Maybe we should reconsider what we consider monopolies in the 21st century. I'm already using ChatGPT and Perplexity more than Google.
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#377Earlier quoted context omitted.
Monopolies are bad. Splitting up monopolies is good for the consumer. That doesn't mean this makes any sense. How are they going to separate Chrome from Chromium? If they do, what incentive does Google have to keep maintaining Chromium? Can Google make another new fork of Chromium and start yet another browser? Or are they now banned from making browsers? What company has the resources to maintain Chrome's massive co…
in general, I find a little bit distasteful that the only way to build a browser is as a loss leading project for the largest advertising company on the planet No wonder nobody can compete, loss leaders tend to kill competition as they can be maintained without direct business revenue at all. The same issue plagues domesticated cats, they don’t need to hunt for food since they have an abundance at home so instead wit…
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#378Google needs to be punished for what they did to the web.
ChatGPT / OpenAI is next in line to revolutionize and ruin the web.
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#379Antimonopoly action is good for the market, but let's be honest nobody will make a better chrome, at best they will inject ads or turn it to a walled garden. It will be a bad thing in the end for us web developers , and we will lose the last open platform.
Why is this considered a good move anyway? The obvious way to split google is to separate the buy side from the sell side of ads market
Re: DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
#380I'm very surprised by the number of people in this thread who don't seem to understand that monopolies are _very_ bad for consumers.
Splitting monopolies is good.
On other hand splitting "free" product is somewhat questionable. When the competitor don't have exactly viable business model. Pushing for something that will clearly in not too distant future kill the split product is not helpful.