DOJ calls for breakup of Google and sale of Chrome

[Loose]

Trump will reverse this directive

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

The last sentence is just monopoly-brain.

If these companies werent free to create crassly closed ecosystems then they would actually have to integrate and make integration work with other services.

These anticompetitive practices let them be like "Well you should've used Safari/Outlook/Chrome, dumbass."

No, they wouldn't. Apple does exactly the same as Google, but they don't get shyt for it because they don't have the market share.

 

[verbalkint]

Chrome literally has access to my whole life...

 

[bnew]

sell it to who, whose gonna take over chromium development?

did they say anything about web standards and how google deliberately breaks things on their sites to give users a pooper experience on youtube in browsers like Firefox?

not sure how I feel about the search deals that make them the default : patrice: , it's a real problem if users don't have options to change the default option.

they should get at them about the play store requirement and google search assistance.

 

[Dorian Breh]

No, they wouldn't. Apple does exactly the same as Google, but they don't get shyt for it because they don't have the market share.

Well not in America. The EU went after them successfully for the chargers.

And they arguably do have the market share from a vertical perspective, which is not the perspective that the laws are designed to handle at all.

And I absolutely believe Apple should absolutely be scrutinized for anti consumerist and anti competitive practices. But the protections are not designed for software and fail to handle it.

 

[Sir Richard Spirit]

I hate Chome, but if this goes through we lose DuckDuckGo. I read almost the entire budget is money from Google.

 

[Dorian Breh]

Competition and more businesses is ALWAYS good for the consumer.

This isn’t bad at all, the same thing probably needs to happen to Amazon, Apple, regional electricity companies that have a monopoly on certain regions, etc.

and internet providers!!

 

[bnew]

safari is more monopolistic than chrome. apple forces browsers to use their rendering engine. other browsers choose to build off chromium because rendering engine development is time consuming and costs a lot of money. microsoft gave up developing their own rendering engine and started using chromium instead too. I think things might change for the better though since the better AI/LLM's gets at coding and handling millions of tokens, developers and companies will likely develop new browser rendering engines to better compete with chromium(Blink) based browsers, webkit and gecko rendering engines.

 

[Still Benefited]

Trump will reverse this directive

Probably just wanted some cheap shares. My 10 shares took a hit today


Cant forget how Trump crashed the market last time he won and kept pumping it and dumping it through tweets. Still dont know how he never got caught up for market manipulation/insider trading of some kind. Seemed obvious as hell he was doing it,and had an interest in the performance of the stock market and its direction at particular times. The investegators were obviously barking up the wrong tree if he wasnt caught. Or maybe thats not illegal for politicians to do,wouldnt be suprised