Oh man, this is rough. Firefox and Chrome are the only browser platforms, the monopoly ruling is probably going to starve Firefox development (so it will become insecure), and now maybe some new entity could own Chrome (and see everything)? I don't like that at all.
More importantly: What is the business model supposed to be? And who is going to pay for it? (users? I doubt it) Given the current state of the browser business I just don't see it. Unless you let Google pay for the default search position which would at least be a very ironic outcome.
Elon. Who wouldn't want a search engine that's inextricably rooted in an ecosystem everyone inhabits. Mail. Docs. Workspace. AI. And then of course the first page gives results that shape the world however he wants it.
Why would they force them to sell? How is this going to be good for us? The company buying this isn't doing it to do better by users. Imagine Musk/X buys it 🤢 Or OpenAI: everything becomes a prompt 👎
I would prefer if they forced G to not abuse its position but keep investing in Chrome.
In another remarkable self own by democrats and their appointees, Chrome will be sold off and bought by any number of billionaires that want an easier way to influence elections through technology like they try to accuse democrats of doing.
The potential sale of Chrome raises concerns: few companies could afford it, and they might leverage it like Google did. Instead of selling, Google should be required to maintain Chromium and offer it as the consumer browser. That would be a more fitting consequence for their monopoly practices.
It's hard to believe Chrome is actually worth 20b to anyone but Google or Microsoft. Because it's purely the ads that create value, not the codebase itself.
Apple buys Chrome and trashes it. A “new” company called Metoric comes out with a browser named Bronze. Metoric makes a deal and Bronze becomes the official Google browser.
Only 20 billion for a browser monopoly (◕‿◕✿) There are theories that Chrome is very important for reading web pages, and not the Google servers. This means that Chrome renders JavaScript, which is very resource-intensive, on your private computer and then sends it to the Google servers.
Likelihood of this happening would be close to 0 esp with what's going on over there. I'm not sure at what cost they'll prevent that from happening tho.
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I'm not convinced Chrome for Enterprise is enough to keep the company afloat at $6/seat.
I would prefer if they forced G to not abuse its position but keep investing in Chrome.
I was gonna say "Verizon" outright, but since Verizon already has a stake in Yahoo, it's probably the same thing.
This was my take on it tho
(glad/shocked to be proven wrong)