Comment by Timber-6539
6 days ago
Everything here you accuse Google of doing, Apple is running circles on. Ultimately, if this case goes through Google are right about one thing. The UX on Chrome is going to take a steep nose dive.
6 days ago
Everything here you accuse Google of doing, Apple is running circles on. Ultimately, if this case goes through Google are right about one thing. The UX on Chrome is going to take a steep nose dive.
Apple does not run the largest advertising network on the planet. As simple as that.
Even for the matter of the browser, Apple does not have the same push as Google does. Yes, Safari is the default browser on a phone. But outside of the mobile world, Safari is a rounding error.
In terms of controlling commerce (google’s main line of business), non-mobile is on its way to becoming a rounding error.
> Apple does not run the largest advertising network on the planet.
No, but they're trying to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185080
> The UX on Chrome is going to take a steep nose dive.
In order to dive any further, it would have to begin excavation.
Apple does not have a monopoly.
There's nothing inherently illegal about monopolies, just anti-competitive behavior. While Apple is engaging in clear anti-competitive behavior (eg shoving the app store down customers throats), they've reined in restrictions of competing browsers so that they're actually worth using now.
What do you call the Apple store then if it's not a monopolization of the iOS ecosystem?
This article accurately captures all tech monopolies, Apple included.
https://ia.net/topics/monopolies-apple-and-epic
Well in the one legal case Epic vs Apple, the judge said it was nonsensical to say that Apple had a monopoly on its own product.
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In what way?
Who is going to provide a competitive browser for the price of $0 other than Google?
Before Google, there were multiple competing browsers based on different technology, all of which were either offered for free or explicitly licensed as FOSS. Google used Chrome to put the web on an upgrade treadmill. The only way to keep your own code up-to-date with what websites expected was to either commit unending amounts of resources to the problem (Google), do the bare minimum to keep websites working as your resources are stretched thin (Safari, arguably Firefox), or just ship modified versions of Chrome so that it's easier to merge in new features (Edge, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi, etc).
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Microsoft could end up buying it
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