Can we go back to buying software? This free software subsidized by big ad money has fucked the whole market up.
DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next
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#12Honest question: who are the potential realistic buyers of Chrome? OS vendors already have their own browsers and Chrome doesn't directly make much (any?) money.
new vectors of monetization:
- ecom (amazon?)
- AI (openai?)
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#13Feel like splitting ad sales from search is the one meaningful structural change they could insist upon that would actually make a difference to Google's monopoly position. Anything like this is really more window-dressing than anything.
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#14I think Google should just be split up into baby Google's that each have to cooperate with each other. Like we did with Bell. Also we should do the same thing to Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook. In fact I think we should do it again to AT&T and also Comcast. This should probably be done every so often as maintenance.
Which business units should be broken up?
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#15Honest question: who are the potential realistic buyers of Chrome? OS vendors already have their own browsers and Chrome doesn't directly make much (any?) money.
Alphabet
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#16Let's wait how long it takes for Trump's crypto / meme coin to get a spike and this DOJ thing to go away. After all, all is transactional with Trump.
How would that work, exactly? Would Google’s search algorithm highlight pro-TRUMP articles to pump the token price? I think you’ll be waiting a long time.
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#17This headline seems misleading; the way I'm reading this, it's still just a request to the courts, who will make the final decision right?
it indeed is. when I saw it in my mstdn feed, i too was shocked but upon reading, uh, no.
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#18I think Google should just be split up into baby Google's that each have to cooperate with each other. Like we did with Bell. Also we should do the same thing to Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook. In fact I think we should do it again to AT&T and also Comcast. This should probably be done every so often as maintenance.
Which business units should be broken up?
Microsoft and Azure, Bing, Office 365
Amazon (the retailer portion) and AWS, and probably their logistics wing
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#19I guess Elon Musk is working on a web browser and a bunch of put options were put on Google. Let's be real, this administration is just doing stock manipulations and looting the public purse while running a media circus to distract people.
This makes sense. Musk is an authoritarian and buying the most popular browser lets him force Twitter and his crypto shit on everyone at once. Especially at a time where Mozilla is faltering. The moral of the story in all of this is that there are no viable alternatives to most things.
Re: DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next
#20I think Google should just be split up into baby Google's that each have to cooperate with each other. Like we did with Bell. Also we should do the same thing to Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook. In fact I think we should do it again to AT&T and also Comcast. This should probably be done every so often as maintenance.
I don't understand how this worldview coexists with countries like Russia and China.
If the feds kneecap US companies, it's not going to make the next generation of US companies stronger, just cede influence to worse jurisdictions.