Google contract prevented Motorola from setting Perplexity as default assistant
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Re: Google contract prevented Motorola from setting Perplexity as default assistant
#2Re: Google contract prevented Motorola from setting Perplexity as default assistant
#3Why wouldn't they?
1. Already in anti-trust related to ads, AI is probably in the clear.
2. If they are thought to violating a law they will get like a $10,000,000 fine and pay it, still less money than they will make from harvesting data.
Re: Google contract prevented Motorola from setting Perplexity as default assistant
#4I wonder how the relationship is after Google sold Motorola to Lenovo in October 2014.
Re: Google contract prevented Motorola from setting Perplexity as default assistant
#5"Google blocked phone-making also-ran from preinstalling crapware their own users don't want, doing them a big favor."
Re: Google contract prevented Motorola from setting Perplexity as default assistant
#6Perplexity setting up talks with phone makers is itself an anti-competitive behavior to curb an already anti-competitive behavior. Either this should be banned in entirety or let the free markets prevail.
Re: Google contract prevented Motorola from setting Perplexity as default assistant
#7Why wouldn't they? 1. Already in anti-trust related to ads, AI is probably in the clear. 2. If they are thought to violating a law they will get like a $10,000,000 fine and pay it, still less money than they will make from harvesting data.
> Already in anti-trust related to ads, AI is probably in the clear.
"Already in trouble for committing monopolist behavior in market A, Google should be fine committing even more monopolist behavior in the very related and overlapping market of B"
This makes claim makes pretty little sense to me. AI search and Google web search (ads) are already stepping on each other. I see no reason that Google wouldn't be worried about antitrust on AI search if they're worried about antitrust action in general- which they clearly are.
Re: Google contract prevented Motorola from setting Perplexity as default assistant
#8Perplexity setting up talks with phone makers is itself an anti-competitive behavior to curb an already anti-competitive behavior. Either this should be banned in entirety or let the free markets prevail.
Why can't business talk to their leads?
Re: Google contract prevented Motorola from setting Perplexity as default assistant
#9Perplexity setting up talks with phone makers is itself an anti-competitive behavior to curb an already anti-competitive behavior. Either this should be banned in entirety or let the free markets prevail.
That's not happening. Everything that comes with a computer could be possibly construed as anti-competitive. Even the Start Menu - after all, if Start11 and StartIsBack exist, why should Microsoft have the right to ship their own start menu? How about calculators (Desmos)? The system that puts maximize, minimize, and close on windows (after all, WindowBlinds exists)? The login screen (LogonStudio)? What about the Task Manager (Process Explorer)? File Explorer (Total Commander)? The Media Player (VLC)? The PDF viewer (unfair competition against Adobe!)?
I agree that at some point, it crosses a line. Perplexity is nowhere near powerful or influential enough to cross that line.
Re: Google contract prevented Motorola from setting Perplexity as default assistant
#10Google/Alphabet's corporate death penalty (forced dissolution by the state) cannot come quickly enough.
Live by the sword (secretly cooperate with state-run intelligence agencies against the interests of their own users), die by the sword (swift and merciless forced corporate dissolution, by the state).