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"I expect this to be bad for everyone except Google if the ruling holds." If the decision will not be bad for Google, then why would Google spend so much money and time to defend against it.^1 Why not just stop making the anti-competitive payments and terminate the agreements. Money saved. Problem solved. We can now safely say it is not a defense to claim "Google is the best" and that's why people choose it. Anti-com…
HN commenters defending Apple have stated many times that iOS installations do not comprise a majority share of the "smartphone" market. Can we assume that if Microsoft paid Apple to be the default search engine in iOS instead of Google then Microsoft would have market share, or some other source of monopoly power, sufficient to allow the DoJ and state AGs to bring essentially the same antitrust case against Microsof…
HN commenter #1:
> Why not just stop making the anti-competitive payments and terminate the agreements. Money saved. Problem solved.
"It's only solved if nobody does it. If Google stops those payments unilaterally MS would just make a slightly cheaper deal with Apple.."
HN commenter #2:
"It's no longer a competitive market. MS can lowball like crazy now"
HN commenter #3:
"I think the point is that if Google is not allowed to make such payments, neither is Microsoft (unless they want to risk the same lawsuit against them)."