DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next

Post by radlad » Thu, Mar 13, 2025, 12:13 PM UTC

xvector wrote: post #155

radlad wrote: post #139

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I'm a happy Firefox user on desktop and Android. Can you be more specific?

It is terribly insecure and much easier to exploit than Chrome.

Post by MiguelX413 » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 8:59 AM UTC

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #152

jay_kyburz wrote: post #145

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>The problem is that's basically not a thing for digital goods because dumping is selling below the marginal cost and the marginal cost for digital goods is zero. Gmail is free, Docs is free, Maps is free, lots of google apps are free. This makes it very difficult few a new player to enter the market. This is predatory pricing. Nothing else you said is really relevant to the forced sale of Chrome.

> Gmail is free, Docs is free, Maps is free, lots of google apps are free. This makes it very difficult few a new player to enter the market. This is predatory pricing. It isn't. Things with ~0 marginal cost end up being free or free-with-ads. Webmail was free before Gmail, OpenOffice was free before Google Docs, MapQuest was free before Google Maps, because that's the market price for those things. > Nothing else yo…