DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next
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DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next
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#2Discussion (467 points, 2 days ago, 651 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43299886
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#4I 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.
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#5IMHO, the real issue with Google isn't the control of the web browser, but the complete vertical integration of the ad space. Divest Google of its position as the ad broker (i.e., unwind its acquisition of DoubleClick), and prohibit any sort of privileged data flow from Google to ex-Google Ads, and you'd probably have a more viable solution than the poking DoJ is trying to do right now.
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#6This 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?
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#7I 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.
Or wants to buy one.
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#8Honest 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.
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#9Let'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.
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#10I 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.